NYU summer students prepare for publishing jobs (USA)

Book publishing may be an industry that never stops predicting its own demise or mourning better days, but it remains golden enough for young people such as Lindsay Neff. "It's the big time, it's where everything happens," says Neff, 22, a Stow, Ohio, native who recently graduated from the College of Wooster with a double major in English and philosophy. "I've always loved reading and I've always loved writing and I've always enjoyed analyzing texts. So that's what really did it for me and made me want to be in publishing." Neff is among some 100 young women and men who attended the Summer Publishing Institute at New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies, where CEOs, editors, booksellers, agents and recruiters give talks and teach seminars, and students immerse themselves in a business that has changed, and not changed, in profound ways. - AP