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Richard Curtis

This Business of Publishing

  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    nevertheless, tactics available to you to try to rescue your book from oblivion.
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    With all the musical chairs being played in the editorial job market,
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    Many conscientious editors, when changing jobs, do try to bring along with them some or all of their list, for they know what fate is in store for the books left behind.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    commonly known as the "editor's clause," meaning that if your editor moves to another publisher, you have the option of moving your book with him or her.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    ("I don't do business with publishers I can't reach by taxi," one of my colleagues sniffs.)
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    Thankfully, there has been a countertrend in the rise of imaginative, aggressive small presses capable of exploiting types of books that major houses are afraid, or can't afford, to do.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    This, in turn, creates still more orphaned books, for, with publishing firms committing most of their resources only to guaranteed bestsellers, the amount of money available for more marginal and midlist books is diminished.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    This means, in turn, that if money is going to be invested in any book, it will be invested in the sure thing, the latest book by a big-name author with a successful track record.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    conservatism and negativism have become the prevailing attitudes when such decisions have to be made.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    Sometimes continuity is achieved by the departed editor's replacement
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