Jonathan Dore Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

• Managing editorial and production workflows (freelancer management of copy-editors, proofreaders, designers, and indexers, plus main liaison and negotiation role with typesetters, printers, eBook conversion agencies.
• Overseeing conversion of front- and backlist to eBook formats (PDF, ePub, and Mobi), opening of new distribution channels, and developing a strategy for increasing these income streams.
• Responsibility for… Show more
• Responsibility for maintaining the Press’s metadata on its online bibliographic services, BooksoniX and Consonance, and for assigning ISBNs to both print and eBook titles.
• Overseeing integration of IOE Press’s metadata, workflows, and titles in production with that of Trentham Books, acquired in November 2012, and those of the combined IOE/Trentham list with UCL Press.
• Collating financial and stock data to calculate, report, and pay royalties to some 600 authors and editors.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

• Created a comprehensive style guide from scratch, drawing on the best of more than twenty style guides encountered during career as well as on standard works such as Hart’s Rules.
• Drew up plans for the commissioning and editing of 1,000 substantial articles (1 million words total) on people, places, and cities of medieval Asia.
• Moved into research role when Foundation made strategic change of direction away from publishing model. Developed and managed research projects grouped… Show more
• Moved into research role when Foundation made strategic change of direction away from publishing model. Developed and managed research projects grouped into several broad programmes covering Content Owners (publishers.
• Line-managed an in-house team of 3 people. Show less

• Edited monographs and reference books across a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences, in both the UK and North American markets.
• Regularly acted as main author contact, and also took on contract project management.
• Regular clients included OUP, University of British Columbia Press, University of Washington Press, Routledge, Ashgate, Praeger, and Greenwood.

London, United Kingdom

• Commissioned and co-ordinated the publication of large, multi-contributor reference works, each 1 million+ words from 250–350 contributors.
• Completed predecessor’s Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition, then conceived and commissioned three projects from scratch: o the award-winning Encyclopedia of the Arctic (published by Routledge in 2004); o.
• Completed predecessor’s Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition, then conceived and commissioned three projects from scratch: o the award-winning Encyclopedia of the Arctic (published by Routledge in 2004); o.
• Initiated and researched the concept for each title, finding the potential contributors (a pool of about 1,500 for each encyclopedia), writing the background and briefing material for the project web pages, working.

London, United Kingdom

• This post had two main components: i) Commissioning and editing new articles for the encyclopedia
• Researching categories and identifying new articles needed.
• Briefing and commissioning authors.
• Editing text on screen.
• Maintenance of multi-table database of articles. ii) Briefing and commissioning new multimedia items for the encyclopedia, including selection of music clips and supervision of spoken audio recording, briefing artists.
• Maintenance of multi-table database of articles. ii) Briefing and commissioning new multimedia items for the encyclopedia, including selection of music clips and supervision of spoken audio recording, briefing artists.

London, United Kingdom

• This post with a major music publisher involved:
• Making layouts of publications that integrate text, music, and illustrations.
• Preparing manuscripts for origination, proofreading the originated music, and editing and proofreading all related text matter, including multi-language editions.
• Manuscript assessment and cover design.
• Standardizing various aspects of musical notation and the presentation of text material in order to maintain and develop a consistent house-style… Show more This post with a major music publisher involved:
• Standardizing various aspects of musical notation and the presentation of text material in order to maintain and develop a consistent house-style in work produced by many different originators. Show less

London, United Kingdom

This involved much of the same editorial work as at Novello, but also included a thorough basic training in many aspects of publishing, including production and printing.