Our 500th Blog Post!

This is the 500th post on our blog since it first began in 2011! We started the blog seven years ago, not long after our website was updated. In this post we reflect on the blog and share some special highlights and interesting facts with you.

Our very first blog post…

…was written by our Editorial Director, Anna, who wrote about the Mobility Language Literacy conference she attended in Cape Town in January of that year. Since then, we’ve published hundreds of blog posts: interviews with authors and staff alike, guest posts written by everyone from our sales rep to Tommi’s mum, blog series such as an A-Z of Publishing and Publishing FAQs, conference reports, authors introducing their new books, visits to suppliers, our thoughts on issues in the industry, such as Brexit and the pricing of ebooks…and much more!

The majority of people who read our blog are in the US and the UK, but we have readers all over the world, in 146 different countries!

A map showing where in the world our readers are. Only the countries in white haven’t had someone read the blog while there.

Some of our most popular blog posts of all time

• My Mother Tongue and Me: Staying Unapologetically Foreign in the Land I Proudly Call Home

One of my personal favourites – a post written by Tommi’s mum, Marjukka, in celebration of International Mother Language Day about what her mother language, Finnish, means to her.

• An Interview with Colin Baker

In which we spoke to Colin about the then-newly-published 5th edition of Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.

• Preparing Teachers to Teach English as an International Language

A post by editor Aya Matsuda on the inspiration behind her 2017 book.

• New Series: The Future of Tourism

A post in which series editor Ian Yeoman introduces the background to the new series and discusses the future of travel.

• Where Does the Money Go? and Why Aren’t Ebooks Free?

A pair of complementary posts from 2011 and 2013 respectively in which Tommi explains how the money from our books is spent and why we price our ebooks as we do.

Highlights of 2017

2017 has been a bit of a milestone for us, with lots to celebrate, and naturally we have written all about each highlight on our blog. Firstly, in February we published our 1000th book, Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (6th Edition). On top of this, we also hit 35 years since the company began. To mark it, we published Celebrating 1000 books in 35 years of Channel View Publications/Multilingual Matters, a great post written by Tommi, in which he reflects on the last 35 years and discusses how the company and wider world of publishing has changed over time.

Anna and Sarah celebrating 15 glorious years at CVP/MM

In addition to this, Sarah and Anna, who joined the company within months of each other back in 2002, celebrated their 15 year anniversary working at CVP/MM. Of course, the occasion called for a blog post, and we published an interview with both Sarah and Anna looking back on their first days, biggest achievements and favourite memories.

Our blog was originally created as a place to share news, but it has become so much more than that. We hope that it gives readers an insight into what goes on behind the scenes and allows them to get to know us and the company a bit better. We look forward to the next 500 posts!

Flo

 

An A-Z of Publishing at Channel View Publications/Multilingual Matters

If you follow our blog regularly you may well have noticed that throughout the latter part of 2015 we’ve published an A-Z of our company and publishing with us. The last post was published in November and we hope that you enjoyed learning 26 nuggets of information about us! For those who missed out, here’s a round-up of all the letters – just click the link to be taken to that word’s short post.

A is for Approachable.

B is for Blog.

C is for Clevedon.

D is for Directors

E is for Ebooks. 

F is for Frankfurt.

G is for Grover.

H is for Hardback.

I is for Imprint. 

J is for Journals.

K is for Korea. 

L is for Living Wage Employer.

M is for Marston Book Services. 

N is for Newsletter.

O is for Office.

P is for Proposals. 

Q is for Quiz.

R is for Review Process. 

S is for Series.

T is for Twitter. 

U is for UTP Distribution. 

V is for Visitors. 

W is for Website. 

X is for Xuesong (Andy) Gao.  

Y is for Young Scholars.  

Z is for Zagreb, Zurich, Zwickau…

We hope that you have enjoyed learning a bit more about our company. If you have any further questions about what we do or about publishing with us, feel free to email us and we’ll do our best to respond.

A-Z of Publishing: Z is for…

Zagreb, Zurich, Zwickau…wherever in the world you work, there is a chance that you’ll meet one of us at a conference. We travel to many events around the world each year to promote our latest books and to meet with our authors, readers and contacts. Conferences are among our favourite aspects of the job as we love to meet people face to face and get to know the people behind email addresses and book orders! If you see our stand at a conference, be it in Zagreb, Zurich, Zwicklau (or anywhere else in the world) please do not hesitate to drop by our stand and say hello!

This post is part of our ‘A-Z of Publishing’ series which we will be posting every Monday throughout the rest of 2015. You can search the blog for the rest of the series or subscribe to the blog to receive an email as soon as the next post is published by using the links on the right of the page.

A-Z of Publishing: Y is for…

Y is for Young Scholars. We are proud to support young scholars, be that by giving talks to graduate students on publishing, chatting informally with them about their research at conferences or offering guidance as they publish their first chapter or even full length monograph with us. A few of our publications have their origins in PhD research however we are keen to stress that we do not publish PhDs in their PhD form. We expect such works to have been fully revised and restructured for publication for a book audience. When done well, such publications can be a very successful way of getting new and interesting research to a wider audience.

This post is part of our ‘A-Z of Publishing’ series which we will be posting every Monday throughout the rest of 2015. You can search the blog for the rest of the series or subscribe to the blog to receive an email as soon as the next post is published by using the links on the right of the page.

A-Z of Publishing: X is for…

X is for Xuesong (Andy) Gao. Xuesong (Andy) Gao is one of our authors. He is based at the University of Hong Kong and is one of our many overseas authors. We support academics working in countries all over the world and have authors living in countries from Fiji to Hawaii! Out of the 84 authors who published books with us in 2014 only 21 are based at UK institutions, and that’s not including the numerous chapter authors who also published with us. We consider ourselves to be a truly international publisher!

This post is part of our ‘A-Z of Publishing’ series which we will be posting every Monday throughout the rest of 2015. You can search the blog for the rest of the series or subscribe to the blog to receive an email as soon as the next post is published by using the links on the right of the page.

A-Z of Publishing: W is for…

W is for Website. Our website is probably the first port of call for anyone wanting to get in touch with us. On our website you can find information about all our published and forthcoming books, as well as information on submitting book proposals, guidelines on manuscript preparation for authors, our inspection/desk copy and permissions request forms, contact details for all of us (and a photo so you can put a face to a name!) and much more useful information.

This post is part of our ‘A-Z of Publishing’ series which we will be posting every Monday throughout the rest of 2015. You can search the blog for the rest of the series or subscribe to the blog to receive an email as soon as the next post is published by using the links on the right of the page.

A-Z of Publishing: V is for…

V is for Visitors. We love having visitors pop into our office in Bristol and are always happy to put the kettle on to have a cup of tea with an author or contact. We have even had manuscripts hand-delivered in the past, so if you’re ever planning to be in Bristol do let us know!

This post is part of our ‘A-Z of Publishing’ series which we will be posting every Monday throughout the rest of 2015. You can search the blog for the rest of the series or subscribe to the blog to receive an email as soon as the next post is published by using the links on the right of the page.

A-Z of Publishing: U is for…

U is for UTP Distribution. UTP Distribution is the name of our North American distributor. If you have ever bought a book from us at a US conference or purchased a book from our website with US shipping then they will have dealt with your order. They have warehouses in both Toronto, Canada and New York State, USA to ensure swift delivery of our books to our Canadian and American customers.

This post is part of our ‘A-Z of Publishing’ series which we will be posting every Monday throughout the rest of 2015. You can search the blog for the rest of the series or subscribe to the blog to receive an email as soon as the next post is published by using the links on the right of the page.

A-Z of Publishing: T is for…

T is for Twitter. We are active on social media and have Twitter and Facebook accounts for both imprints. If you use social media, please like or follow us to keep up-to-date with our latest news. The links to our listings are: MM Facebook page, CVP Facebook page, MM Twitter page and CVP Twitter page.

This post is part of our ‘A-Z of Publishing’ series which we will be posting every Monday throughout the rest of 2015. You can search the blog for the rest of the series or subscribe to the blog to receive an email as soon as the next post is published by using the links on the right of the page.

A-Z of Publishing: S is for…

S is for Series. Most of our books are published in a series. On the Channel View side of the company, we have 4 series: our well established ‘Aspects of Tourism’ and ‘Tourism and Cultural Change’ series, plus our ‘Aspects of Tourism Texts’ series and the new series ‘Tourism Essentials’. Multilingual Matters has too many series to list individually (!) but the bigger ones include ‘Bilingual Education and Bilingualism’, ‘Second Language Acquisition’ and ‘New Perspectives on Language and Education’. You can find a full list and more information on the series tab on our website.

This post is part of our ‘A-Z of Publishing’ series which we will be posting every Monday throughout the rest of 2015. You can search the blog for the rest of the series or subscribe to the blog to receive an email as soon as the next post is published by using the links on the right of the page.