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News: February 2018 Frances Pinter is shortlisted for the University Press REDUX Award
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NEWS February 2018 At the age of 23, I was the first woman to establish her own publishing company in the UK. Pinter Publishers became a leader in the social sciences. We launched one of the first environmental studies imprints Belhaven Press and acquired the humanities imprint Leicester University Press. After 20 years I was invited by philanthropist and financier George Soros to devise multi-million dollar programmes supporting publishing and education in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union after the fall of Communism. At the turn of the century I took a short break from publishing and was CEO of International House Trust, which owns a premier language school in London and holds a 50% share of International House World Organisation Ltd., an affiliated network of nearly 200 language schools in over 40 countries. I've been a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics, acted as consultant to Creative Commons and ran a research project on alternative licencing practices in developing countries. I also ran a project looking into the international intellectual property reform agenda funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Bloomsbury Academic, a new imprint of Bloomsbury Publishers, appointed me in 2008 as its founding publisher. I was also the publisher of the digitised Winston Churchill Archive collection online, launched in 2012. I completed a three-year position as CEO of Manchester University Press and continued to work on Open Access issues on the boards of Knowledge Unlatched that I founded in 2012, and Knowledge Unlatched Research that I founded later in 2016. Having handed over the reigns of these Open Access initiatives I am now researching the history of book-burning. Frances Pinter CV click here Why Book Processing Charges (BPCs) Vary So Much Knowledge Unlatched: Development of book publishing business models Chapter from Academic and Professional Publishing
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