My Back Pages. An undeniably personal history of publishing, 1972-2022

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A memoir by a publisher at work 1972-2022, as an employee / senior manager of publishing houses, notably Oxford University Press, Macmillan, Bloomsbury Publishing, Reed Elsevier, etc. Latterly operating his own small publishing house. 'In his memoir he uses his unrivalled experience to illustrated the profound changes that have affected the identity and practices but not the purposes of publishing'. Its ten chapters include: 'Starting out'; 'The brave new world of scientific publishing' [OUP]; 'Consolidation, change and controversies'; 'The start up years'; 'A global family business' [Macmillan]; 'Making Bloomsbury less magical' [Bloomsbury Publishing]; 'British publishing - an international best seller'