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VACANCY
IAN RANDLE PUBLISHERS Invites applications from suitably qualified persons to fill the position of PRODUCTION CONTROLLER Working in book production is a career for people who are highly organised, able to negotiate, diplomatic and willing to accept responsibility for the quality of the final product. The Production Controller has overall responsibility for the physical process of transforming the...
New in 2011
Our first book for 2011 is off press and available: Christine Chivallon’s The Black Diaspora of the Americas: Experiences and Theories out of the Caribbean. Originally published in French, this welcomed addition to cultural studies and diaspora studies is timely in its appearance in English in this UN International Year for the People of African...
Tastes Like Home
This feature appeared in the Sunday 30 January 2011 edition of the Nation Newspaper in Barbados By Sherie Holder-Olutayo | Sun, January 30, 2011 – 12:02 AM Some of the best things in life are born out of the memories that we hold dear. Cynthia Nelson can attest to that. As a Guyanese woman living in Barbados trying...
On the Future of Books
The following article by our Publisher, Ian Randle, was carried in theSunday 31 October 2010 edition of the Gleaner Newspaper. Ever since Johannes Gutenberg invented mechanically movable type that ushered in the printing process in the 15th century, the question of the survival of the book has been raised every time there has been a new...
Print Books still Rule – Academically
Taken from Publishersweekly.com Print Books Still BMOC By Judith Rosen Oct 28, 2010 E-books and e-readers may be making headlines off campus, but a new study by OnCampus Research, a division of the National Association of College Stores, reaffirmed last fall’s OnCampus Student Watch study that 74% of college students prefer print. According to the study taken by 627...
The Launch that Was
Last night, along with sponsors Digicel Jamaica and Capital and Credit Financial Group, we celebrated the publication of Usain Bolt’s illustrated biography My Story 9.58: Being the World’s Fastest Man. It was a great affair with suprise guests, entertainers Shaggy and Wyclef Jean. The short programme was steered by Carole Beckford, Bolt’s publicist and included presentations...
The Long and the short of it
Sprint sensation Usain Bolt towers over Christine Randle Wray, Managing Director of Ian Randle Publishers when the Caribbean publishers of his illustrated biography My Story – 9.58: Being the World’s Fastest Man, paid him a surprise visit at Spartan Gym last week shortly after he’d finished a session with Coach Glen...
In case you missed it
Miss Lou: Mother of Jamaican Culture By Kevin O’Brien Chang Louise ‘Miss Lou’ Bennett is undisputedly the most universally loved personality this nation has ever produced or likely will ever produce, engendering unabashed feelings of pride and affection in Jamaicans of all ages, colours, classes and creeds. For more than 50 years, she tirelessly championed Jamaican folk customs...
CXC Syllabuses
The Caribbean Examinations Council wishes to advise the public that syllabuses for the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) and the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) are scheduled to hit the shelves of bookstore throughout the region in early October. Under a new arrangement with Caribbean publishing house, Ian Randle Publishers, the syllabuses will be published...
It’s Risky Business
One of Ian Randle Publishers’ newest releases Risky Business: Perspectives on Corporate Misconduct is set to be launched at the Norman Manley Law School on October 1, 2010. About the Book The international financial crisis which began in August 2007 brought into sharp focus the regulation of the financial services industry. However, even before then, the quest to...
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