Penguin books uk submissions to eds
•
Publishing, like any industry, has a lot of jargon. We know that can make it difficult to navigate the world of books, or even know where to start. Here’s our A-Z guide to some of the most common words and terms we use.
Terms related to the process of publishing a book. For more information about the steps and teams involved in Building a Book at Penguin, visit our guide below.
How we build a book
Acquisition
When a publisher ‘buys’ the right to publish a book from an author.
Acquisitions meeting
The weekly acquisition meeting is the key moment when a publisher decides which books to ‘acquire’ (i.e., which books we would like to publish), by reviewing new manuscripts. This meeting involves people from a variety of departments who all give their input as to whether a book should be acquired or bought for publication.
For editors, the acquisitions meeting is a chance to present the new titles they would like to publish to our colleagues. Sales iden
•
categories
Sign up to the Penguin newsletter
For updates, exclusive content and more
By signing up, I confirm that I'm over To find out what personal data we collect and how we use it, including for our recommendations, please visit our Privacy Policy.
Articles to inspire
Stop telling yourself you’re not qualified, good enough or worthy. Growth happens when you start doing the things you’re not qualified to do.
Steven Bartlett, The Diary of a CEO
About our business and finance books
From The Lean Startup to How Women Rise, find the best business, finance, law, and economics books to help you get ahead and achieve your goals. Learn from experts like Simon Sinek, bestselling author of Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last, and Spencer Johnson, author of Who Moved My Cheese? Whether you're looking to take your company from Good to Great or Zero to One, or simply want to read the best books about money, there's the perfect book about entrepre
•
R v Penguin Books Ltd
UK court case on obscenity laws
R v Penguin Books Ltd[a] (also known as The Lady Chatterley Trial), was the public prosecution in the United Kingdom of Penguin Books under the Obscene Publications Act [b] for the publication of D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover. The trial took place over six days, in No 1 court of the Old Bailey, between 20 October and 2 November with Mervyn Griffith-Jones[c] prosecuting, Gerald Gardiner counsel for the defence[d] and Laurence Byrne presiding. The rättegång was a test case of the defence of public good provision beneath section 4 of the Act which was defined as a work "in the interests of science, literature, art or learning, or of other objects of general concern".
The jury funnen for the defendant in a result that ushered in the liberalisation of publishing, and which some saw as the beginning of the permissive gemenskap in Britain.[3]