Calling educators! ✨ Join us at our Educators webinar on Monday 15th December to hear about our exciting World Book Day 2026 plans, and how you can help make reading fun in your classroom. 📚 Sign up now - buff.ly/OtjqSeg

Ever wondered how a new joiner experiences their day at Springer Nature? Joanna, Social Media Manager, shares her workflow, quiet starts, team catch-ups, and focused creative sessions. Discover #LifeAtSpringerNature. Do you want to be #BePartOfProgress? springernature.com/careers#LifeAtSpringerNature#BePartOfProgress#WorkInPublishing

Happy #WorkInPublishing Week! If you're interested in joining the world of publishing, staff members at LUP share what they love about their jobs and advice on getting into the industry 📚 Read more here ⬇️ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/pages/careers @publishersassoc.bsky.social

"I didn't know my job existed and now I travel the world to talk about books!" Last week you met our People of Publishing. For #WorkInPublishing Week, they’ve given us their advice for starting a career in publishing. #Publishing #BookTok

An online intro into a really interesting part of the industry! #BookSky #AcademicSky

"Rejecting change won’t make it not occur – so you may as well embrace it!" Commissioning Editor for Film & Media, Veidehi Hans, discusses her journey from intern to commissioning editor & her new project: Storytelling in Hindi Cinema for #WorkInPublishingWeek: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/connect/l...

If you're intrigued by indexing during #WorkInPublishingWeek, you can explore our online distance-learning training course and see how you might enter this fascinating line of work. Study at your own pace, with feedback and support from experienced professional indexers:

To celebrate #WorkInPublishing Week 2025, we spoke with Prerna Shetty, Editorial Data Analyst intern, about her highlights and insights from the Springer Nature Opening Doors Internship Program. Read her Springboard Blog here: spklr.io/63321BMgES#WorkInPublishing #BePartOfProgress #Publishing

✨ Happy #WorkInPublishingWeek! ✨ We'll be sharing advice, behind-the-scenes interviews and videos all week - and make sure you check out @publishersassoc.bsky.social for loads more 🧐 Start with an intro to different publishing roles and teams... www.youtube.com/watch?v=VED4...

It's here! Search #WorkInPublishing across socials this week to find advice direct from publishers and publishing businesses about the routes in and paths available across the industry. For events from industry colleagues: publishers.org.uk/about-publis... #Booksky

Congratulations to Andrew Malvern and all of this year's People of Publishing cohort. Discover how Andrew is driving meaningful change at Sage 👇

We're over the moon that Dom's work has been recognised! An all-round brilliant Publisher, colleague & champion of publishing & the theatre industry 🤩 #PeopleOfPublishing

We’re proud to introduce the 2025 People of Publishing! 🎉📚 Watch our video and find out the impact they’re having across the industry: www.publishers.org.uk/people-of-pu...

This time next week, we'll be meeting 2025's People of Publishing. These eight brilliant individuals are behind some of the most interesting, innovative and exciting things happening across our industry. Look out across social media on Wednesday 12 November to celebrate them!

Fantastic news as we go into the National Year of Reading. Submissions for publishers will open in Spring 2026, with the shortlist announced the following November. The winner will be revealed at a high-profile event for young readers in February 2027. #Booksky #Publishing #NationalYearofReading

Read Publishers Association CEO Dan Conway’s article in BookBrunch on where we are with AI policy, and where we have to go next: ➡️ www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article...

In 2026, we'll be Going All In to tackle the children's reading crisis. Our members have been instrumental in securing 2026 as a National Year of Reading, and we're so excited to work with industry, charity partners and government to get children reading. #GoAllIn2026 #NationalYearOfReading2026

Last week, we got back from the Conservative Party Conference, meaning that the Publishers Association's activity at the political party conferences is over for another year. Find out more about why we go and what we did from our Policy and Public Affairs Manager. 📽️🔽

In the midst of a busy UK political conference season, we're launching the submissions for the 10th year of the Westminster Book Awards🎉Find out more: www.publishers.org.uk/our-work/wes... #UKPolitics #Booksky

Great to be at #LabourParyConference today. Over the next few days we will be meeting with ministers, advisers, and officials as well as attending various events on government policy.(🧵)

Following US news overnight on the Anthropic settlement (reuters.com/sustainabili...) you can read our statement ▶️https://publishers.org.uk/publishers-association-statement-on-the-bartz-v-anthropic-settlement/ #AI #Copyright

Publishers Association CEO Dan Conway welcomes recent comments that 'copyright is off the table' regarding the UK/US tech deal: www.thebookseller.com/news/the-pub...

An exciting 2026 line-up of books for World Book Day 2026! Follow @worldbookdayuk.bsky.social and hear directly from the authors and and illustrators...

⭐The Unwin Award Reveals 2026 Judging Panel @publishersassoc.bsky.social has announced the Unwin Award 2026 judges! Claudia Hammond will Chair the judging panel. She’s joined by @sarfrazmanzoor.bsky.social and @carosanderson.bsky.social

Meet our judges for the Unwin Award 2026🏆: Claudia Hammond (Chair): award-winning broadcaster, author and psychology lecturer; Sarfraz Manzoor: author, screenwriter, academic, broadcaster and journalist and Caroline Sanderson, writer and books journalist.

Our President Mandy Hill, Professor Mike Berners Lee and event sponsor Baroness Gail Rebuck spoke to publisher members and parliamentarians in the House of Lords yesterday. Read more: www.publishers.org.uk/uk-publishin...

Meet our our expert panel, who will be discussing retail strategies for smaller publishers at 11am on Thursday. Free for members, just £30 for non- members. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-retail...

@publishersassoc.bsky.social have shared their 2025 Summer Reading List for Parliamentarians, compiling titles recommended by MPs and Members of the House of Lords, including ministers for Creative Industries. See what's worth adding to your list 🔗 www.publishers.org.uk/publications...

For member organisations gearing up to hire, remember we have the Publishers Association jobs board ready to reach publishing professionals who are looking for their next step (plus, for those job hunting, some great opportunities already there!): ➡️https://hubs.li/Q03D99xq0

The Unwin Award 2026 is now open for submissions! This £10,000 literary award recognises non-fiction authors in the earlier stages of their careers, awarding work considered to have made a significant contribution to the world: hubs.li/Q03BvYw90 #UKPublishing #NonFiction

Desert island books, anyone? 🏝️📚 Our President, Mandy Hill, dives into our Summer Reading List for Parliamentarians on Westminster Hour (from 45m): www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #BookSky

Congratulations 🎉 to everyone involved in the creation of the #BookerPrize2025 longlist titles this year. 🔽

#ICYMI: Discover what UK parliamentarians recommend colleagues should take to the beach over the recess, from picture books for family to escapist fiction: www.publishers.org.uk/publications... #Booksky

Pleased to add to @publishersassoc.bsky.social parliamentary summer reading list: Warra Warra Wai: How Indigenous Australians Discovered Captain Cook & What They Tell about the Coming of the Ghost People @simonschusteranz.bsky.social www.publishers.org.uk/publications...

Our Summer Reading List for Parliamentarians features recommendations from MPs and members of the House of Lords, spanning everything from children’s picture books to political non-fiction: www.publishers.org.uk/publications...

Discover how Publishers Association members can dive into the data of our industry stats with our latest blog and webinar: www.publishers.org.uk/publishing-i...

2026 will be the National Year of Reading! The campaign was launched at Downing Street yesterday aiming to reverse the trend of declining enjoyment of books, as just one in three aged 8 to 18 said they enjoyed reading in their free time in 2025. www.nationalyearofreading.org.uk #BookSky

This is tomorrow! Dig into the trends driving UK publishing. Free for those working for our member publishers, £35 for non-members. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-har... #UKPublishing #BookSky

This June has seen a group of key strategies published by the government. Get to grips with what they are and what they mean for the publishing sector: www.publishers.org.uk/a-summer-of-...

Meet the speakers for next week's webinar as we prepare to deep dive into some of the reader trends driving publishing in 2025: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-har... #Publishing #Booksky

Insight from the industry and readers, plus comment from our CEO, Dan Conway, in this Guardian article on today's industry stats: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j... #UKPublishing #BookSky

Today we've released our annual industry stays on UK publishing. Discover what was happening in the industry across 2024: www.publishers.org.uk/publications... #UKPublishing #Publishing #BookSky

This #EmpathyDay, discover more about the links between reading and empathy, and EmpathyLab's work to raise an empathy-educated generation: ▶️https://empathylab.uk/research/# #booksky

All of us in the publishing industry, and the charities and organisations we work with, must ensure we are addressing this crisis as a priority. (🧵...)

Find out more about the speakers at next week's webinar 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/developmen...

We welcome BookTrust's Reading Rights report, which shows the value of reading as a vital early building block in a child’s development. Alongside our report, Turning the Page, the case is clear for taking action to ensure that every child has the opportunity to develop a lifelong love of reading. 📚

Publishers Association President Mandy Hill writes in LabourList about UK publishing’s influence around the world. 🧵 ▶️ labourlist.org/2025/05/publ...

The government has announced that the temporary exhaustion regime for IP rights, introduced post-Brexit, will be made permanent. This decision prevents the importation of unauthorised international editions, which risk undercutting the domestic market, damaging sales for UK authors and publishers. 🧵

Congratulation to Class Professional Publishing, and well done to all the nominees! A fantastic show of publishing talent across all the categories. ⭐ #BritishBookAwards #Nibbies

At our AGM yesterday, we were thrilled to welcome Mandy Hill, Managing Director, Academic at Cambridge University Press & Assessment as our new President. 🧵