Death Aflame
voice of dissent
- Feb 1, 2004
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I'm actually really curious about what you just said. How does one get into the publishing industry? What part of the publishing industry?
Where I am, the norm seems to be to get an undergraduate degree in something like English, Communication Studies, but the major is less important than just having a degree. From there you could work your way in if you have some great networking skills and connections or by taking on unpaid internships or by taking a postgrad program.
Since I do not have a great base network to break in to the industry I am taking a publishing program to help establish that (with peers, instructors and various guest speakers, and industry events that we get to attend) as well as receive an official education in all the different facets of the industry: editorial, marketing, sales, production, and design.
Most people want to get into the editorial side of the industry, so naturally this is the most competitive, but there are other, lesser known streams: sales, marketing, production, and design being the main ones.
I speak from the perspective of a student, not a professional though. Hopefully this time next year it will be a different story.