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28 Jun 2012

Michael Frayn
Michael Frayn converses with Will Atkinson (Sales and Marketing Director, Faber and Faber) and Sarah Savitt (Editor, Faber and Faber)

Michael Frayn is a multi-award-winning author and playwright, his plays include Noises Off (The Old Vic’s production can be currently seen in the West End) The Two of Us, Alphabetical Order, Donkeys’ Years, Clouds, Balmoral, Make or Break, Benefactors, Look Look, Here, Copenhagen and Afterlife. He has also published eleven novels, including most recently Skios and Spies, which won the Whitbread Novel Award. His several screen plays include Clockwise starring John Cleese.

A selection of Michael Frayn's publications will be available to purchase on the night.

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Past Events

10 May 2012	Discoverability Sponsored by EBSCO Speakers: Robert Faber, Editorial Director, Reference, and Director, Discoverability Program at Oxford University Press Gareth Smith, Senior Sales Director, EP For any type of content in the e-world, discoverability is paramount for enabling users to find and access the content, thus driving usage and profitable revenue streams. This event will seek to provide an up-to-date non-technical explanation of the main issues, why this is relevant for publishers, and what your business needs to do about it... How people find stuff – and how you can help them As the mass of digital information grows it’s becoming harder and harder for people to find and filter what they need. As customer and user behaviour changes, continued visibility and easy discovery can make or break a business. This talk maps out why discoverability matters, how to look at user journeys, Robert Faber will talk about how OUP is responding to the new challenges across its academic business through the new Oxford Index service. Senior Sales Director for EBSCO Publishing, Gareth Smith manages the UK & Ireland operation, with responsibility for the provision of discovery and database services to all markets. With over 20 years experience in business information provision, covering both academic and corporate sectors for a range of companies, Gareth is passionate about delivering content to the user in a form they are familiar with, that compete with Internet search engines. Gareth has been involved with over 30 installations of discovery solutions in the UK & Ireland in the last 18 months alone and can share those experiences with the audience.
29 Mar 2012	Doing Business in China This meeting will be preceded by a very short AGM (maximum 5 minutes!) Sponsored by Charlesworth Group This event will take place in the Main Lecture Theatre at the Gipsy Lane Campus of Oxford Brookes. Drinks will be served before the talks in the foyer outside the lecture theatre Everyone knows how important the Chinese economy is to us, how successful the Chinese industry has been at exporting to us, and how their investment in research is soon going to be greater than that of the USA. Publishers in the UK have talked for some years about their hopes for the Chinese market and visit frequently in the hope of building productive relationship with the many publishers there. Strangely enough, publishers in China also want to reach out to us. Nevertheless it is notoriously difficult to bring business talks to a satisfactory conclusion, and to achieve contractual terms for books or rights. Tonight’s programme will tell us how it really is. We have three speakers who know China well and have actually done business and helped others to do business with the Chinese.
09 Feb 2012	International Evening 2012 - India Tickets £12 members, £15 non-members. The price includes Indian food and ample drink Sponsored by: MOTILAL (UK) BOOKS OF INDIA and Newgen Imaging www.newgenimaging.com Spice up winter with the taste and sounds of India at the annual OPuS International Party. Come and eat, drink and enjoy yourself, with members of the publishing community from all around Oxfordshire for just £12.
24 Nov 2011	Reaching Tablets & eReaders: UK channels for ebooks The landscape of eReading devices and channels to reach them is rapidly changing in the UK today. This seminar focuses on established and emerging channels for selling your ebooks. OPuS is delighted to have Linda Bennett of Gold Leaf to provide an overview of the UK ebook market and emerging models including ebook borrowing, and Lindsay Mooney of Kobo to talk about their partnership with WH Smith’s and how Kobo can work with publishers in the UK to distribute ebooks both here in the UK ad worldwide.
18 Oct 2011	Branding in Publishing Ian Grant, Encyclopaedia Britannica Andrew Furlow, Icon Sarah Franklin, Oxford Brookes University Headington Hill Hall for drinks/nibbles, then talks in the Willow Lecture Theatre.
14 Jun 2011	An evening with John Carey John Carey, with Will Atkinson of Faber & Faber Buckley Building, Oxford Brookes University To sign up to attend this event or if you have any queries about OPuS membership please contact Penny Perrins at secretary@opusnet.co.uk. Pimms and nibbles will be served from 6.30 pm. Entry for non-members: £10 (includes OPuS membership for the rest of 2011)
26 May 2011	ELT Publishing Sponsored by BEBC (Bournemouth English Book Centre) www.bebc.co.uk Sign up to listen to a publisher, an author, and a bookseller and distributor talk about their trade and experiences. They will review where ELT publishing is now, and how it got here: and they will gaze into the future and forecast where they think ELT is going in the years ahead. Venue: Buckley Building, Brookes University, Gipsy Lane campus
04 Apr 2011	From Apps to Zines – Legal SatNav for the Digital Age Sponsored by Hart Publishing www.hartpub.co.uk This event will be preceded by a very short AGM (<5 mins!) Refreshments will be served in Headington Hill Hall and the talks will be presented in Willow 10
17 Feb 2011	International Evening 2011 - Central and Eastern Europe Last chance to buy yourself a ticket!! Contact Penny at secretary@opusnet.co.uk or your company representative OPuS members £15 Non-members £18 February blues? Not with OPuS! We heat up grey February, as we make Central and Eastern Europe our theme for the annual OPuS International Evening.
24 Nov 2010	Managing Content - Integrated Publisher Solutions This event will be in the Buckley Building at Oxford Brookes University. Please sign up if you would like to attend Sponsored by Publishing Technology PLC www.publishingtechnology.com
13 Oct 2010	The Book Seller Speakers: Keith Clack from the main Blackwell’s bookshop, Oxford Patrick Jaffe of Jaffe and Neale Bookshop and Cafe in Chipping Norton Both bookshops listed in the Independent's favourite 50 bookshops!
22 Jun 2010	A 'Quite Interesting' Evening with John Mitchinson
27 Apr 2010	Career Progression in Publishing *Sign up today if you would like to attend this member-only event.* Refreshments will be served in the Lloyd Board Room and the talks will be in the Lloyd Lecture Theatre
24 Mar 2010	The Societal Tsunami: Social Media & Social Networking in Publishing Sponsored by Blake Lapthorn This event will be preceded by the OPuS AGM (it will only take 5 mins!) Speakers: Sam Missingham, The Bookseller, and Davina Quarterman, Wiley-Blackwell Refreshments before the event will be served in the Buckley building.
10 Feb 2010	International evening 2010 - Brazil Sponsored by Shaw Gibbs LLP February blues? Not with OPuS! We heat up the grey February with the spirit of samba, as we make Brazil our theme for the annual OPuS International Evening.
26 Nov 2009	The Future of Journal Publishing Sponsored by Cadmus Communications, a Cenveo Company www.cadmus.com Please note change of date! OPuS and SYP will be joining forces and gazing into the future to consider whether academic and STM journals have a future. How will new digital technologies and new ways of online communication affect how we publish and use journals, and the greater academic publishing community? Will researchers still communicate and be evaluated by journal publication?
07 Oct 2009	The Google Settlement –implications for UK publishers and authors Sponsored by Manches LLP Please email secretary@opusnet.co.uk to sign up for this event
16 Jun 2009	Wendy Cope Sponsored by EBSCO Information Services Wendy Cope, celebrated poet and author of acclaimed collections of her poetry ('Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis')joins Will Atkinson, Sales and Marketing Director of her publishers, Faber & Faber
28 Apr 2009	Publishing for impact, or where readers and reach (not profit) are the point
26 Mar 2009	Piracy in Publishing Speakers: Chris Paterson and Mark Majurey
24 Feb 2009	International Evening 2009 Sponsored by Lightning Source http://www.lightningsource.com
12 Nov 2008	Beat tough times: use market research and mine data sources to drive sales and profits Please sign up for this event by the end of Monday, 10th November!
02 Oct 2008	Publishing and the Environment Sponsored by Imago, www.imago.co.uk
02 Jul 2008	Carmen Callil: editor - publisher - author This event is sponsored by SBS Worldwide Ltd, www.sbsworldwide.com
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 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 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.
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
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?
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 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? 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? 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 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? 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? 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 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 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 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 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.