Latest Offers from the SYP
Kogan Page are offering SYP members a 35% discount on
'The Professionals' Guide to Publishing: A Practical Introduction to Working in the Publishing Industry by Gill Davies and Richard Balkwill. To take advantage of this discount, please download and complete the
booking form (PDF 146KB).
Punked Books are offering free proof copies of their debut novel,
Abattoir Jack, to SYP members who can review on Amazon. All SYP members need to do is email
editor@authortrek.com with their name and address, along with the link to a review that they have previously posted on Amazon.
The publishers of
The Writer's Handbook 2010 are offering SYP members a 50% discount off the cover price. To take advantage of this discount, quote code
WBOOK2010a when ordering via
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=281381 (RRP £14.99). Of particular revelance to SYP members is a chapter by our former Chair Jon Slack entitled
The Ins and Outs of a Publishing House – A Tale of Two Sides.
Members receive a 10% discount at Foyles bookshop when they show their membership card.
Marketability's practical training courses are offered to SYP members for
just £325, saving £50. Just quote SYP when you book. For details on upcoming dates, visit the
Marketability Course Diary.
The Publishing Training Centre gives SYP members a 20% discount on their day courses (ie all except residential). For more details, contact
publishing.training@bookhouse.co.uk.
The Society for Editors and Proofreaders are waiving their £25 joining fee for SYP members, so you will just have to pay the annual £88 subscription fee if you want to join the SfEP.
Editorial Training are currently offering SYP members £5 off their £25
Freelance Proofreading seminar.
Book now and bring your membership card along on the day to get a £5 refund. It also now offers SYP members 10% off its distance learning course,
Proofreading Today (if enrolling online, contact Editorial Training with your SYP membership number to get a 10% refund).
More details can be found on
www.edittrain.co.uk.
Oxford Brookes University is running a range of publishing courses throughout the year as part of an expanding professional development programme. Courses include an introduction to Indesign, a 'Roadmap for New media Projects', Publishing Finance courses, Marketing to Libraries, Video Production and 'Contracts, Copyright and Rights: the basics'. They are offering 10% discount on these courses for all SYP members when booked through their companies. The website is undergoing work at the moment, but if you would be interested in future courses, please keep an eye on it at
http://opdm.brookes.ac.uk/ - and join the mailing list if you would like to be kept up to date with developments.
InPrint can now be found on your iPad or iPhone.To view the issue on your iPad or iPhone, first download the
Exactly app from the iTunes App store . Don't worry, it's free!
After firing up the app, enter 'InPrintApp' as the username and 'TheSYP' as the password. By turning the 'Include free content' switch to the 'off' position and pressing the blue 'Save' button in the corner of the window you can jump straight to the digital edition of the magazine.
Once downloaded, subsequent issues will appear in the app as they are publish. By pressing the 'star' button, you can synchronise and remove the issues from your device.
If you have a great idea for an article, then why not contact the editors at
inprint@thesyp.org.uk? We'd be delighted to hear your suggestions and give you the chance to write for InPrint!
