All Rights Reserved (Paperback or Softback)

Publishing is a long-established profession that constantly renews itself in order to remain relevant and profitable. But what characteristic does a publisher in the 21st century need to succeed? How does the industry work? What are the roles and the processes that sustain it day by day? Richard Charkin provides the answers to these questions in an essential text subtitled 'Lessons in publishing.'

All Rights Reserved is Richard Charkin's follow-up to his internationally successful memoir My Back Pages. His unrivalled experience makes him the perfect choice to describe what it is that makes a successful publisher. He explains the essential relationship with authors and literary agents, the roles of booksellers and wholesalers, he shows how English language publishing is an ever-growing international business, he examines the many roles that make the business tick, he analyses how the economics work, and how AI will change the industry and its processes.

This unique up-to-the minute description of the life of a working publisher today is an invaluable text for students entering the profession and for publishing professionals who want to know more about the industry they have joined.

Since becoming a publisher in 1972, Richard Charkin has held many senior posts at major publishing houses, including Oxford University Press, Reed Elsevier, Current Science Group, Macmillan, and Bloomsbury Publishing. He has held non-executive directorships at IOP Publishing and Liverpool University Press. He is a former President of The Book Society, the International Publishers Association and the UK Publishers Association. He is a non-executive director of the International Advisory Board of the Frankfurt Book Fair, Chair of Thames & Hudson Ltd., non- executive director of Bloomsbury China, as well as advising nkoda.com, Kitaboo, shimmr.ai, Firefinch Publishing, and running Mensch Publishing. He lectures on the publishing courses at London College of Communications, City University, Oxford Brookes University, and University College London

Tom Campbell is an independent consultant and writer working in cultural policy and regeneration. He worked with the Greater London Authority to produce the Mayor's Cultural Strategy and was Head of Creative Industries at the London Development Agency. He is a trustee of the charity Bookbanks, and his most recent novel, Helen Hoskins Begins Again, was published by Mensch.