Pan Macmillan’s Nicholas Blake posts a presentation made at the Society of Young Publishers this week on the company’s Digitalist blog about, in which he looked at the role of the editor in a world adapting to digital processes and markets. “I argued that although editors in our part of the archipelago needed new knowledge and understanding, as they always have, they didn’t need new skills, and I outlined ten key islands of knowledge, five collaborative and five individual.” Those islands: 1. Get the rights. Penguin got 700 titles up for the Waterstone’s launch – then had to take 120 down […]