Book and media industry - publisher
Book and media industry - publishing is a teaching profession in Austria .
tasks
Publishing clerks are responsible for the commercial and organizational processes in the publishing industry: production, sale and distribution of publishing products (books, magazines, newspapers, multimedia products), contract preparation for authors and license agreements, catalog creation, presentation of publishing products and advertising measures as well as database and catalog creation. Further activities are the calculation and determination of sales prices as well as the selection of the distribution channels for the products on offer. A prerequisite for working as a publishing clerk is not only specialist knowledge of press law and copyright law (as well as related property rights), but also administrative work with company communication systems as well as company bookkeeping and cost accounting and the creation of statistics and files.
education
The training lasts three years. It takes place predominantly in the training company and accompanying this in the vocational school , which conveys the theoretical background for practicing the profession.
conditions
- Working with databases: evaluating statistics, files and cards
- Knowledge of press law, copyright and related rights
- Determination of market segments for product placement
- Calculate and determine sales prices
- Presentation of publishing products
- Compilation of publisher directories and catalogs
- Support for publishing representatives
- Preparation of contracts with authors, license agreements
- Company bookkeeping and cost accounting