Terrorism has come to publishing. It is a grave concern when criticism is turned to mortal threats.
Even in my side of the world, I’ve been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it’s gone from being a gentlemen’s club to being a few big players, and it’s very corporatised.
When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was a new author.
Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.
A friend of mine who is in the publishing business knew I was writing a book, and he said, ‘Have you said anything yet about the good guy? Because I know you spend so much time with the bad guys.’ Because they’re fun. So then you have to make the good guy fun, in order to compete. That’s the challenge.
For me, the marriage of publishing and politics simply weaves together the two family businesses.
We all need each other in publishing to make publishing work for authors in a variety of formats now and in the future. Anyone who thinks publishers don’t bring anything to the table has a very narrow view and lack of knowledge about the industry as a whole.
Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I’m interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.
I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.
I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
I’ve been willing to go for years without publishing. That’s been my career.
The publishers, as I remember at the very beginning of my career, wrote letters with their fountain pens. A letter is different from a phone call or fax. It’s a different kind of intimacy. That pervaded the entire business of writing and publishing.
I started a publishing company just so I could get the phone numbers of everyone that I’d ever admired.
There’s no law preventing a journalist from publishing whatever they want.
My biggest luck was the Terry McMillan era, because what happened after the phenomenon of ‘Waiting to Exhale’ is that publishing woke up. They said, ‘Wow. Black people do read.’
I decided I was going to be an artist who wrote my own songs, and turned down the publishing deal. That meant that the first few years here were really tough financially. I didn’t know if I was going to have gas to get home sometimes or could put gas in the car.
The Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice should take a long, hard look at the standard publishing contract.
I want to record many albums, have a healthy record label with talented artists, keep building my publishing catalogue, and maintain our culture with good music that will be remembered for years to come.
Thank god magazines like ‘Heat’ weren’t around in our day. The thought of someone catching you unawares on a beach and publishing photos of your cellulite… it’s so hurtful, causes so many problems.
Console game publishing has become more like theatrical release film-making and it is very hard if you are not one of the major publishers, and even for them it is hard unless they are working with major game brands.
My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.
The creation is a very internal process, and publishing the book is a very external process. It is nice to see the book out in the world and people having the same reaction as when I created it. The point of all art is the emotional transference, and when that happens, the book has succeeded.
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
Children’s publishing is the jewel in the crown of British publishing.
Self-publishing provides more freedom and control, but it also provides more risk. Publishing provides more credibility and promotion, but your vision can also get lost in the bureaucratic machinery of the business. It’s a tough decision to make.
Publishing had been successful where there had been natural geographic monopolies.
When I say ‘publishing is the new literacy,’ I don’t mean there’s no role for curation, for improving material, for editing material, for fact-checking material. I mean literally, the act of putting something out in public used to be reserved in the same way.
I love being a worship leader, but because I’m also a record company owner, a publishing company owner and a brand developer, I have an economic and a fiscal responsibility as well.
I want to work with my friends because Canadian genre publishing is a really small pool.
A very great deal is written about the future of book publishing – much more than on its present or past – and the only takeaway from all these oracles seems to be that a great empire will be destroyed.
When I started publishing – my first novel came out in 1990 – there were no options for publishing science fiction in Canada. There were no small presses, and the large presses simply would not touch it at all.
How advertising is handled has always been a key distinction between low and high order publishing. The higher you stood, the more separate you were from advertising, and, in the logic of snobbery, the greater a premium price the top brands would pay to be in your company.
I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It’s a perversely and universally appealing topic.
Every famous writer was once an unknown writer. If publishers never published new writers, they wouldn’t be publishing anyone at all after a while.
We’re also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.
I have a theory that you can tell what the head of a company is like by the people who work there. I knew a publishing house that was run on fear and paranoia, and I felt sorry for everyone who worked there. Needless to say, the person at the helm was not known for kindness, warmth, or grace.
A cool thing about enthusiast press is the low barrier to entry. Anyone can decide they want to set out on this path and start publishing immediately.
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I’d been publishing for 20 years.
Writers keep writing and publishers publishing – it never grows boring.
I had a lot of space as a kid. My mother worked with human rights for the government, and my dad had a book publishing company, but they weren’t really musical.
The Southern Ground warehouse is rocking and rolling in Atlanta, with a T-shirt shop and a leather shop; everything we’re selling at our shows we’re making or publishing ourselves.
My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.
Kindle Singles is publishing on skates. It prints like lightning; our book meets readers in hours. I’ve spent so many years waiting for publishers to consider whether they wanted to print a book of mine, making contracts, taking months to fit it into the Fall list or the Spring list, fitting it into an advertising plan.
Seeing ‘Pretty Little Liars’ fans adapt and create their own stories is both exciting and flattering, and I think what Amazon Publishing is offering through Kindle Worlds is a great way to reward their ingenuity.
Say you’re an American novelist, published by the largest publishing house in the world. Their goal is to make as much money from you as possible, to have as many people read your book in as many formats as possible. How can you hope to speak intimately to the numbers of people that represent the book sales required?
Publishing can be tough. It has the ability to kill dreams.
I’m happy to report that ‘The New Press’ is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.
The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it’s nothing new.
If you give up at the first rejection or the first bad review, you will never make it in publishing.
The publishing industry provides a viable channel which enables a wide distribution of books that we’re not seeing in any other way. Unfortunately, self-publishing doesn’t have that.
Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can’t opine about whether someone has chosen the right vehicle if you don’t know where she intends to drive it.
Publishing at a young age is not really an indicator of talent.
I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.
