Publishing Training Centre: Introduction to Marketing

Marketing departments in publishing companies are exciting places to work, but understanding both your part in the business and what you are trying to achieve is crucial when both budget and activity have to be spent as effectively as possible.

You need to learn who all your audiences are, not just the consumers who buy your books but also your colleagues in different departments and the retailers who will sell and promote your books. You also need to understand the costs associated with the various media options, how to work most effectively with your colleagues in publicity and how to measure how successful your work has been.

There isn’t much time to ask questions on the job and you are generally expected to pick everything up through osmosis. This course will explain clearly exactly what is happening in all parts of the publishing process and give you the chance to ask all of the questions that have occurred to you since you started. The course will look at both trade and non-trade publishing.

Learn how to: identify and place the function of marketing within the publishing process, both internally and externally; plan and execute a marketing campaign; make a successful campaign and learn how to measure and evaluate it; understand the requirements from sales and the book trade.