Master's in Publishing

Information relating to the new edition of the programme will be updated soon.

INTRODUCTORY VIDEO

The editor's trade, interdisciplinary and with an eye to the future, is a thrilling activity carried out in the field of contents management, the copyright industry and communication. It presents a very wide range of possibilities because it offers many roads towards professional and personal fulfillment. It is also one of the areas in which new technologies have the most direct impact.

The publishing process is much more than the production of books. It involves discovering new authors and contributing to cultural diversification in a globalized world, acquiring rights and devising new licensing and promotional strategies, publicising and selling authors and books, multiplying the means due to digitalization, plan publishing lines, choosing print types and designing. Publishing involves all these and many more related activities. Book publishing does
business by creating culture and making people think.

This programme offers in the form of a "layout" the necessary knowledge to perform all these functions, under the most prominent professionals: authors, publishers, managers, editorial directors, agents, graphic designers, cultural journalists, booksellers and distributors of renown.

After 2 years as a postgraduate course and 8 years as a postgraduate diploma, the Publishing programme has now reached its 16th edition, as an internationally recognised Master, fully consolidated within the publishing sector.

The Master's in Publishing (MEDI) develops each stage of the book publishing process: the creation of publishing lines, criteria for selecting or commissioning original content, negotiations, contracting, translation, editing, layout and correction, production, distribution, operations of different markets, export strategies and operations, advertising and marketing. At each stage all the required tasks are analysed in depth and in the same order as in real life. Participating in complete course is equivalent to a general internship in the publishing sector.

A mutual collaboration agreement exists between the programme and the Stanford Publishing Courses for Professionals programme of Stanford University.

A mutual collaboration agreement exists between the programme and the Guadalajara International Book Fair.

The programme includes visits, round tables, workshops, a placement programme with publishing companies, career guidance services and professional passes for trade fairs such as LIBER and GRAPHISPAG.

Participants on the Master are eligible for scholarships offered by The Frankfurt Book Fair Fellowship Programme.

Face-to-face

This programme is aimed at publishing professionals wishing to systemise and update their knowledge, at young publishing professionals wishing to consolidate their present positions, and at young graduates who would like to begin working in the publishing industry with a solid knowledge base.