The publishing industry is an ever-growing one; thus, there are vast opportunities in this field and one can make an exciting career out of it. This industry requires dynamic people with different skills and interests. Most of the jobs can be found in sales and marketing, editorial, production or design.
If you are a person with a lot of stamina and if you also possess very good communication skills then you could avail a job in the sales and marketing department. Here you work as a negotiator and you negotiate deals with your clients – you get a commission for that. Marketing and distribution teams send their publications to their readers at the right time, at their reader's convenient locations and at the right price. Often they give certain discounts to their readers in order to increase sales. Thus their work is to promote sales and use the right strategy for that.
To work as an editor one must be a very determined person and should have very good writing skills. An editor should be able to analyze different situations-be it a socio-political or an economical situation, well. He has to have the ability to write on any thing under the sun. The editorial team has researchers, writers and editors.
Publishing houses also need good designers. Today your work is important and how you present that is equally important. So the visual appearance of what you write should attract your readers. Successful designers should be able to use modern technology juxtaposed with his skills to create new, innovative designs and should also be able to meet the deadlines.
The job of the production team is to check whether all the other departments are working in full fledge and meeting the deadlines. One working in the production department should have very good organization skills. He should be able to work with everyone and make the other departments work for him. Above all, to work in a publishing house or to own one, you should be genuinely interested and enthusiastic about your work. In brief, you have to be devoted to your work. Here you have to work for hours at a stretch.
Hence, if you are really interested in working in this field, try to gather a little bit of experience. Pen down some of your writings and send them to publishing houses. You might even get selected and if the sales and marketing department of any publishing house praises the writing then you will be well on your track. The rewards that you get both in terms of money and satisfaction are remarkable.
