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Planned Events

SBS Worldwide, www.sbsworldwide.com
THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND FREIGHT MANAGEMENT ________________________________________________________________________ The hugely popular Carmen Callil event, held on the 2nd July at Headington Hill Hall, was sponsored by SBS Worldwide.

Past Events

02 Jul 2008 Carmen Callil: editor - publisher - author
This event is sponsored by SBS Worldwide Ltd, www.sbsworldwide.com

LAST CHANCE TO RESERVE YOUR PLACE! Please let me know via the web site or direct email by MONDAY 23 JUNE if you would like to attend this event.

(If you've signed up for this event but can no longer come, please let me know as numbers are limited and someone else could take your place)

The venue for this event is Headington Hill Hall.

08 May 2008 Attracting Authors and Readers
- the Potential of Web Resources

This event is sponsored by Atypon www.atypon.com

09 Apr 2008 Sales and Marketing to an International market Speaker Notes Available
This event is sponsored by Lightning Source: www.lightningsource.co.uk

Have bag will travel - experiences from around the world

29 Jan 2008 International evening 2008
HURRY! TICKETS ARE SELLING FAST!

This event is sponsored by Newgen Imaging Systems (www.newgenimaging.com).

Tickets, which include food, drink and music, are only £10. The event will take place at Blake Lapthorn Tarlo Lyons, Seacourt Tower, Botley Road, Oxford, OX2 0FB

22 Nov 2007 Children’s publishing – a success story
Catherine Clarke, Felicity Bryan Agency

Liz Cross, Oxford University Press

Julia Golding, author of The Diamond of Drury Lane



27 Sep 2007 Ghostwriting
Speakers: Claire Squires and Sean Magee.

Refreshments will be served in the Lloyd staff common room at 6.30 pm. The talks will be presented in the Lloyd lecture theatre at 7.30 pm.



20 Jun 2007 Joanna Trollope and Linda Evans: how authors and editors work together
THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (Oxford University, Parks Road, opposite Keble College)

To mark the first ten years of OPuS, we are delighted to welcome to our traditional summer event two major figures from the world of trade publishing.

22 May 2007 Digital Learning - The BBC and the Private Sector
A very brief AGM will precede this event.

02 May 2007 Trends and controversies in publishing law: from Prince Charles to Da Vinci, from Human Rights to Google Rights

08 Feb 2007 International Evening 2007

25 Oct 2006 Content on the Move: Challenges and Opportunities for Mobile Content
Hear about the growing global market for mobile content and publishing

19 Jun 2006 The Truth about Fiction - the role of the biographer
Patrick Marnham, author of Wild Mary – the life of Mary Wesley

Penny Hoare, Deputy Publishing Director of Chatto & Windus

15 May 2006 Self-Publishing in the Internet Age
Has Vanity Publishing finally come of age? Is it a threat to traditional publishing or the source of the next Booker winner? Come and hear Mike Barnard of MacMillan and Marcelo Beilin of Trafford Publishing speak about the future of fiction.

02 Feb 2006 International evening 2006
The format is lots of food and drink and chat, with some 10-minute mid dinner speeches from 4 guest speakers.

04 Oct 2005 Google Print – what is all the fuss about?
Come and join the hottest debate in publishing!

08 Jun 2005 COLLABORATING WITH GENIUS: the author and editor at work
Two giants from the world of children’s publishing, Philip Pullman and David Fickling, discuss the relationship between author and publisher

12 Apr 2005 The Queen of Rights Speaks to the Nation Speaker Notes Available
The Role of Rights in Contemporary Publishing

03 Feb 2005 International evening 2005
The format is lots of food and drink and chat, with some 10-minute mid dinner speeches from 4 guest speakers.

22 Nov 2004 Evolution or Extinction? The changing role of the agent and aggregator
Never before has the journal publishing industry faced such a radical market change.

30 Sep 2004 Where now? - the real cost of Open Access and its strategic implications for STM publishers
The current model for scientific publishing is "unsatisfactory", according to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee report Scientific Publications: Free for all? published in July 2004. A Government response is expected in early Autumn that could have far reaching effects on the scientific community and the publishers who serve it.

OPuS has gathered together some of the key players in this debate for a lively evening of debate and discussion on the future direction of open access. We anticipate that this will be one of the first publishing events to cover the topic after the Government response, so book your seats early.

21 Jun 2004 The Author & The Editor – in a beautiful pea-green boat?
Why does an author need an editor? The next OPuS event sees the return of the inspirational and entertaining Sue Freestone, Publishing Director of Hutchinson, with her latest author acquisition Andrew Rosenheim.

20 Apr 2004 Rights Owners – in a new paradise, or in danger of extinction? Speaker Notes Available
Copyright and the law – how can it be both vitally important to your business, and.......apparently complex and unappealing in its detail?

25 Mar 2004 DUST OR MAGIC 2004
"An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it."

Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694

The 2nd Oxford Brookes Conference for New-Media Workers. This is a paid-for event produced by Oxford Brookes, being advertised on www.opusnet.co.uk

Thursday 25th-Saturday 27th March 2004



03 Mar 2004 Will ICT transform education? Speaker Notes Available
This conference is being run by the Oxford Centre for International Publishing Studies.

Will the government's focus on information and communication technology in schools transform education in Britain?

Will it raise standards?

How effective is spending on ICT compared to spending on traditional items like books?

What investment priorities should suppliers or resources, whether digital or print-based, be setting to make the best response to this situation?



02 Mar 2004 OPuS & Oxford Brookes University courses Speaker Notes Available
Here are details of courses being jointly run in March by OPuS and Oxford Brookes University.



29 Jan 2004 International Evening 2004
Back by popular demand!

The food is from several Oxford restaurants specialising in Japanese, Lebanese, Indian, Greek, and Spanish to name a few. The drink is plentiful and the company sublime.

The format is lots of food and drink and chat, with some 10-minute mid dinner speeches from 4 guest speakers.

Tickets are only £10 and are available by contacting:

secretary@opusnet.co.uk

Tickets are still available but given the popularity of last year's event we expect them to sell out fast!

27 Nov 2003 Online Reference-where to next? Speaker Notes Available
In the last few years, a number of "traditional" publishers have converted established print reference works into major online reference services.

18 Sep 2003 Publishing – not as we know it? Speaker Notes Available
The publishing landscape continues to evolve as the web changes the business models and formats of publishing as we have known them.



18 Jun 2003 Authors and Editors
Marriage made in heaven, or unholy alliance?

02 Apr 2003 Print on the Line Speaker Notes Available
The effect of online on print process, perception and market.

30 Jan 2003 International Evening 2003

21 Nov 2002 Your Customers—Getting and Keeping Them
Your customers are the life-blood of your business — a cliché of course, but nonetheless true.

How many of you reading this know that, on average, it costs £25 to get a new customer, but only £7 to keep one happy?



02 Oct 2002 The Prophets of Publishing Speaker Notes Available
Emerging technologies and how to exploit them—how to make money and not lose your shirt in electronic publishing.

"Technology is our word for something that doesn't work yet." (Douglas Adams)

19 Jun 2002 Better Than Sex…
e-learning, Why You Should…

17 Apr 2002 The Author and the Agent
A Working Relationship in the World of Consumer Publishing.

20 Feb 2002 Infomediaries
The Who, What, Why of Them, and their Role in the Publishing Value Chain

26 Nov 2001 Permission Marketing—Opt in? Opt out?
Publishers need to know what is legal and acceptable in the attraction and retention of customers in the new permission environment being ratified by the European Parliament and its new Directive on Direct Marketing.



26 Sep 2001 Corporate vs Independent
Richard and William will be drawing on their experiences to examine the nature and culture of both independent and corporate.

04 Jul 2001 A Summer Party with Lindsey Davis

22 May 2001 Life After Copyright Speaker Notes Available
Technology, strategy, and pitfalls.

06 Feb 2001 On-Demand Printing and ebooks
New dawn or new hype?

04 Dec 2000 A pre-Christmas KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) from OPuS
A pre-Christmas KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) from OPuS.

26 Sep 2000 Web site mistakes and how we can learn from them
What is Content Management & is there a DAM Solution?

11 Apr 2000 How to Build a Web Brand Speaker Notes Available
The intimate details of creating and marketing a web brand.



22 Feb 2000 Publishing Copyright and Data Protection
How legal is your digital and online publishing?

14 Sep 1999 Licensing Electronic Rights
Sharing your lunch or icing the cake?



16 Jun 1999 Wiring Schools
Opportunity, risk and profit.



27 Apr 1999 Going Webcentric
The impact of the Internet on the book supply chain.