Were I an
editor at a major publisher planning the release of what's likely to be a bestseller, I'd make darn certain no other cover used a particular image.
I suspect that if you asked the digital sales
managers at the major publishers, half of them wouldn't know the difference between the bestsellers list and the popularity list.
The # 1 advantage self - published authors have right now is a sense of community... And no publicity
team at any major publisher can hope to compete.
Some years ago, I signed on as an editor
at a major publisher of elementary school and high school textbooks, filled with the idealistic belief that I'd be working with equally idealistic authors to create books that would excite teachers and fill young minds with Big Ideas.
Filled with detailed lessons, examples, success stories, and advice from marketing
departments at major publishers, Build Your Author Platform: The New Rules is an indispensable guide for anyone looking for insight into publishing, promoting, and marketing books.
I was glad to hear that he has good access to executives at Amazon, as well
as at the major publishers, and that he reads sometimes on paper and sometimes on the Kindle that he purchased before reporting to work for Digital Book World.
But the cost of hardcovers has accelerated the blockbuster
phenomenon at major publishers, with small houses picking up some of the trade paper authors, and the rest migrating to the indie route.
Right now, I think if you look
at the major publishers who are involved in the publication of what the industry refers to as trade book, bestselling fiction and non-fiction works, they have very different positions with respect to e-book borrowing from libraries.
Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter, bless him, agrees and believes EA is could've gone even higher, «I think it's brilliant... I think it will become the
norm at the major publishers, and think that EA is charging too little».
- Justin Smith (independent game developer and creator of 2010 Nuovo finalist Enviro - Bear 2000)- Rod Humble (Executive Vice President for the EA Play
label at major publisher Electronic Arts, and experimental game creator behind The Marriage and Stars Over Half Moon Bay.)
Over the past year, countless news stories and opinion
columnists at major publishers have cited statistics and reported on start - ups poised to shake up the status quo.
How exactly do you become an editor and what what is like being one
at a major publisher?
At a major publisher, this number would be distressing.
He pretended I worked with
him at a major publisher.