After seven months at Tangshan, he took a job in sales at Newton publishing, but not before reassuring his former boss, Chen Paichong, that he was going into publishing to pick up some different skills. He felt that two years would be sufficient for him to learn how sales function in the realm of publishing, after which time he would return to Tangshan.
在唐山樂集待了 7 個月後，楊錦聰轉換跑道至牛頓出版社擔任行銷企劃，離職前他還跟老闆陳百忠表明，自己只是到出版界「學本事」，過兩年熟悉出版業的行銷運作後，就會重回唐山。