Ask any past member of the Society­ of Young Publishers to reminisce about the organisation and the conversation will inevitably stray to . . . well, booze. The parties, the pub crawls, the late night drinking—it all seemed to be part and parcel of what the SYP did. Trawling through old issues of InPrint, the SYP magazine which is...

So you want to work in book production? Or maybe you're just curious as to what it is a production controller actually does? Whereas editors and designers have pretty self-explanatory job titles, production is one of the areas in publishing often misunderstood within the industry; even within the boardroom. As a result it can sometimes be...