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  • Posted: Mar 6, 2025
    Deadline: Not specified
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  • Media24 is South Africa’s leading publisher with interests in digital media and services, newspapers, magazines, ecommerce, book publishing, print and distribution. It is part of Naspers, a multinational group of media and ecommerce platforms. Strategy Our purpose: Building communities through content, technology and commerce. What we do: We create experie...
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    Publisher (3 Year Contract)

    Reporting to the Publishing Director, this senior position includes the following responsibilities:

    • Research, plan, develop and co-ordinate a profitable list of book and digital publishing projects in the fields of currents affairs, politics, biography/memoir and business.
    • Conceptualise and commission commercially viable books for the South African book market with an emphasis on non-fiction.
    • Review and assess manuscripts for merit and commercial viability.
    • Develop manuscripts in conjunction with the author for greater accessibility, improved structure and logical flow.
    • Liaise with authors, building author relationships and networks.
    • Negotiate author contracts and manage contract terms, royalties and payments with authors and agents.
    • Prepare and control project costing budgets.
    • Ensure projects are published on time and to the highest quality standards.
    • Commission and brief a team of freelancers on each project.
    • Liaise with sales, marketing and publicity colleagues.

    Minimum requirements include:

    •  A relevant tertiary qualification
    • Publishing experience, including commissioning and project management in book publishing.
    • A love of reading and a passion for South African stories, with a specific focus on non-fiction.
    • Excellent communication and editorial skills in English.
    • Sound knowledge of the book market.

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    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Media24 (Pty) Ltd on media24.simplify.hr to apply

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