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Ask Our Alumni: Reflections from SPI 2015 Graduates

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Every year at this time, the Summer Publishing Institute inboxes are flooded with emails from prospective students asking about course work, schedules, housing, networking, life in New York and so much more. We understand! Attending SPI is a dream come true for many of our students—one that gets increasingly stressful the more you think about moving to New York, making friends, and landing that first real job in publishing.

Instead of telling you about it, we decided to let the Class of 2015 speak their minds and answer your questions. After all, they were asking the same things just last summer!

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Book Expo America: Rock Concert for Book Lovers

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SPI students Vivian Roberson and Chloe Goodhart at BEA

After the first three days of classes, NYU’s Summer Publishing Institute (SPI) students experienced a change of pace from the classroom when they attended Book Expo America (BEA) at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. The conference center was transformed into a huge mall where every “store” featured the same thing: books. Even better for the students, the big books for fall were not only prominently displayed, but in some cases given away as advance reading copies. [Read more…] about Book Expo America: Rock Concert for Book Lovers

E-Book Evolution

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April Osborn, Jessica Wells, Hanna Oswald, Naomi Kennedy and Cindy Peng volunteer at Digital Book World

At the recent Digital Book World conference, one of the finest moments was the sight of New York’ s top book publishing executives clustered around TV screens and netbooks watching Steve Jobs demonstrate the wonders of the iPad. For months, publishers had clung to every nuance, every rumor about the mysterious Apple tablet, so there was a certain poetic justice in Job’s decision to announce the launch in the middle of the first-ever conference devoted to the radically changing way readers consume books.

Until the iPad stole the show, conference organizers did an excellent job of bringing together senior management, product developers, strategists, editors, agents, marketers, and what they called “digital change professionals” for two days of lectures and panel discussions about how e-books will revolutionize publishing. [Read more…] about E-Book Evolution

Big Ideas and a (Relatively!) Little Bookstore

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Clifford watches over the Scholastic book store
Clifford watches over the Scholastic Book Store

After weeks of talking about books, Summer Publishing Institute students hit the road to see how books are published and sold. The 100 students split off into groups to visit publishing houses like The Penguin Group,  Macmillan, Abramsbooks, The Hachette Book Group, and Scholastic Corporation, where the company’s beloved character Clifford was on hand to greet the visitors.

Administrative Assistant Emna Belgasni guided our group from the twelfth floor, roof-level atrium to ground level; in between we were shown board meeting rooms, the company library, and vibrant displays of best-selling books like the “Harry Potter” series.  It was not your typical, staid working environment: incredible student artwork – all made by winners of the Scholastic Art Award, a prestigious award program for young students pursuing creative studies-lined the walls and a red “Box for Big Ideas” was set up in the cafeteria. [Read more…] about Big Ideas and a (Relatively!) Little Bookstore