Individual member benefits at a glance
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When you become a CIEP member you gain access to a wide range of benefits designed to help you in your career as an editor or proofreader.
You can access all the benefits on this page from the beginning of your membership with us. As you upgrade your membership level, more benefits, such as a free legal helpline, become available to you. Compare benefits per grade.
Membership year
Our membership year runs from 1 March every year.
From September to December, if you join as a new individual member you pay for six months of membership only. The earlier in September you join, the more you benefit!
When you join, you’ll have access to the following benefits:
Free CIEP information resources
- All 17 CIEP guides
- All 31 CIEP fact sheets
- Subscription to our bimonthly member magazine, The Edit
Discounts on books and journals
- 30% discount on Oxford University Press dictionaries and language reference titles, including the New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors, New Hart’s Rules and Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage
- 25% discount on annual subscription to the BookBrunch e-zine
- 20% discount on The Chicago Manual of Style, printed or online
- 20% discount on monthly/annual subscription rate for The Bookseller
- £44 annual subscription rate for The Indexer
- 20% discount on the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook and related titles
- At least 20% discount on Effective Onscreen Editing by Geoff Hart
- £5 off Margaret Aherne’s proofreading and copyediting books
Discounts on training, conferences and professional memberships
All CIEP members are entitled to preferential rates on CIEP training courses. When you join the CIEP, you are entitled to an extra 15% discount on one course. Here are the external training, event and professional membership discounts you also get with CIEP membership:
- Up to 40% discount on Editors Canada webinars
- 25% discount with Cadman Training Services: courses on PerfectIt, EndNote and Styles and Templates in Word
- 20% discount on Denise Cowle’s course on marking up PDF page proofs and Louise Harnby’s online courses on fiction and marketing your editing business
- 20%–50% discount on selected courses from Liminal Pages
- 10% discount on the Publishing Training Centre's virtual open courses
- Member-rate discount on Publishing Scotland’s proofreading and copyediting courses
- Discount on courses and training events from the Editorial Freelancers Association, the Professional Editors’ Guild, the Society of English-language professionals in the Netherlands (SENSE) and the Society of Indexers
- Preferential rates on the conferences of Editors Canada, the Editorial Freelancers Association, the European Association of Science Editors, the Institute of Professional Editors Limited, the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors, Mediterranean Editors & Translators, the Professional Editors’ Guild and the Society of Indexers
- 20% discount on annual memberships of BookMachine and the Society of Indexers
Discounts on business insurance
- Up to 20% discount on professional indemnity insurance with PolicyBee
- 5% discount on cyber insurance with PolicyBee
Discounts on technology, software and business toolkits
- Up to 20% discount for UK members on selected IT products and services from Dell Technologies UK
- 40% discount on PEPPAA (Proofreader and Editor Productivity Performance Analysis Application)
- 30% discount on PerfectIt consistency software
- 15% discount on The Editor’s Affairs spreadsheet and business administration tools
Other discounts
- 80% discount on BSI marks for copy preparation and proof correction
- 20% discount on The Amazing Online Cartoon Course from Neil Kerber
- 10% discount on 9,000 full-price products from Cult Pens and on a range of ergonomic seating, furniture and accessories from Osmond Ergonomics
All this, and access to our lively member forums and local group meetings, plus a discount on our popular annual conference.