Introduction
Please feel free to bookmark this page for your future use. The list of links is split into the following sections:
- UK and International trade associations and organisations
- London-based short publishing courses and training providers
- Publishing Media and Trade Fairs
- Useful industry data sources
- Some governmental sources and reports
- United States and Canadian trade associations and organisations
- Publishing companies
If you have any suggestions for amending or adding to this list of links please email Desmond O'Rourke:
Publishing Trade Associations and Organisations
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)
The International professional organisation covering not-for-profit learned publishing.
The Association of Online Publishers (AOP)
UK commercial online publishing organisations.
The Association of Publishing Agencies(APA)
UK customer or contract magazine publishers.
Book Industry Communication (BIC)
Develops standards for electronic commerce and communication in the book and serials sectors.
The Booksellers Association of the United Kingdom & Ireland
Trade body to promote the interests of booksellers.
British Printing Industries Federation (BPIF)
Trade body to promote the UK printing industry, including book design and production awards.
British Society of Magazine Editors
The annual awards are the industry's showcase of offline and online magazines' talent.
Independent Publishers Guild(IPG)
The membership organisation for independent publishers.
International Federation of the Periodical Press
Global magazine association
International Publishers Association
The trade association of national publishers' organisations.
International Young Publishing Entreprenuer Award
Annual creative arts awards sponsored by the British Council
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
International centre, based in Berlin, for the standardisation of the book numbering system.
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
International centre, based in Paris, for the standardisation of the magazine numbering system.
Newspaper Marketing Agency
The research and promotion agency for the UK national newspaper sector.
Periodical Publishers Association(PPA)
The trade organisation serving UK magazine and business to business media publishers.
The Publishers Association(PA)
The trade organisation serving UK book, journal and electronic publishers.
Publishers Publicity Circle (PPC)
A forum for book publicists from UK publishing houses and freelance pr agencies to meet.
Society of Editors and Proofreaders
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP)
The Society of Young Publishers
The Stationers' and Newspaper Makers' Company
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London-based Short Publishing Courses & Training Providers
Short courses at the University of the Arts London
Index to the professional Short Courses provision by the six colleges of the University of the Arts London.
Further Education short courses at the London College of Communication
Part-time, evening, Saturday and Summer short courses at the London College of Communication
Professional Plus and Apple Training Centre
Development courses and the Authorised Apple Training Centre at the London College of Communication
The Periodicals Training Council
The short courses and lead body of the magazine publishing industry in the United Kingdom.
The Publishing Training Centre
The short courses and lead body for the book and journal publishing industry in the United Kingdom
Publishing Media and Trade Fairs
Useful reports, studies and sources for statistics and publishing issues
Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC)
Independant audit body providing a service to publishers for press and magazine circulation data
Book Marketing Ltd
Market research reports for the book publishing industry
Bookscan
Nielsen Bookscan monitors sales data for the English-language book industry worldwide
British Rate and Data(BRAD)
Lists all UK press and magazines with contact, advertising rates and production data.
Global Publishing Information
Structural national publishing market reports by the British Council and Publishers Association
National Readership Survey (NRS)
NRS Top Line Readership Survey: profile of magazine readership across the top 200 or so titles
Orange Prize for Fiction
Research projects related to book reading by audience
PIRA
Consultancy for the printing, publishing , packaging and paper industries
Useful governmental sources and libraries
BERR UK Business Sectors - Publishing and others
The UK's Government Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR),
formerly the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
The Digital Content Forum (DCF)
Trade and representative organisations with interests in the exploitation of digital content
The UK Intellectual Property Office
UK government agency for copyright and for patents and design protection and registration
St Bride Library
Specialist library, located off Fleet Street London, for the graphic arts, typographic design, printing and publishing industries. The library is part of the St Bride Foundation, the 19th century educational trust. In 1894 the St Bride Institute Printing School was set up which was the original base of the London College of Printing, now named the London College of Communication.
UNESCO
United Nations Literacy Decade 2003-2012 - UNESCO portal
United States and Canadian Publishing Associations
American Booksellers Association
The Association of Educational Publishers
Association of American Publishers (AAP)
Canadian Magazine Publishers Association
Magazine Publishers of America (MPA)
Print on Demand Initiative (PODi)
Independent Book Publishers Association (formerly Publishers Marketing Association)
Western Publication Association
Some publishers with associations to the University of the Arts London
Dazed Group
