Diapositive 1

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UK - USA - France comparison between
publications
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Outline
1. Introduction to publishing Anne Garnier
2. Literature Marie Bourboulou
3. Childrens books Cécile Petit
4. Comic strip Aymeric Jeanson
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1. Introduction to publishing

• Where to find out about publishing ?
• Publishing glossary

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Where to find out about publishing ?

• The most important categories of publishing

• To find out about UK publishing

British Council www.britishcouncil.org/ism-ukpub
lishing.htm Publishers Association
www.publishers.org.uk Bookseller Magazine
www.thebookseller.com Bookinformation
www.bookinformation.co.uk Publishingnews
www.publishingnews.co.uk

• To find out about US publishing

Association of American Publishers
www.publishers.org Publishersweekly
www.publishersweekly.com Bookwire
www.bookwire.com Frenchpubagency
www.frenchpubagency.com International Publishers
Association www.ipa-uie.org

• The most important book fairs in the US and in
  the UK

London Book Fair www.lbf-virtual.com BookExpo
America www.bookexpoamerica.com
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Publishing glossary

• The anatomy of a book

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1 front cover
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2 fore edge
3 back cover
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4 binding
5 raised bands
6 spine
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Publishing glossary

• The people who work in publishing

• Quizz on publishing vocabulary

To bind
Blurb
DTP (Desktop)
Landscape
Portrait / Upright
(Dust) Jacket
Flaps
To pass for press

• Miscellaneous hypertext links

How a book is made www.harperchildrens.com/hch/pi
cture/features/aliki/howabook/book1.asp
www.penguin.com.au/puffin/kids/book/f_book.htm
Publishing glossaries www.publishers.org.uk/paweb/
paweb.nsf/pubframe!Open http//liberlibri.chez.t
iscali.fr/francais_anglais.htm
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1. Introduction to publishing
2. Literature

• Virginia Woolf
• Paul Auster
• Charlotte Brontë

3. Childrens books
4. Comic strip
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Virginia Woolf
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Paul Auster
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Charlotte Brontë
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Shakespeare 1
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Shakespeare 2
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Conan Doyle
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Agatha Christie
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Philip Roth
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Helen Fielding
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Dan Brown
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1. Introduction to publishing
2. Literature
3. Childrens books

• Sticker Book
• Picture Book
• Novel

4. Comic strip
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Children / Sticker Book

• Maisys Christmas Cest Noël, Mimi!
• Lucy Cousins

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Children / Picture Book

• I will never not ever eat a tomato Beurk les
  tomates!
• Lauren child

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Children / Novel (Hard cover)

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Harry
  Potter et lordre du Phoenix
• J. K. Rowlling

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Children / Novel (Paperback)

• Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone Harry
  Potter à lécole des sorciers
• J. K. Rowlling

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1. Introduction to publishing
2. Literature
3. Childrens books
4. Comic strip

• Finding safety in flight
• A literary ghetto
• Evolution and development

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Finding safety in flight

• English comic strip a very despised genre
• No facilities in the United Kingdom
• An emergency to migrate to the USA

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A literary ghetto

• Global differences a minor genre
• The american notion of supply for comics
  publishers
• The great problem of freelance publishers

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Evolution and development

• A general evolution  graphic novel  and
   trade paper back 
• The creation of publishing stocks
• France an Eldorado for comic strip authors !