Just the act of submitting something for publication counted as fulfilling the requirement — we had little to
no influence over a publisher's decision.
Not exact matches
Over the past year, the Times had found itself at odds with Tribune's previous management, which fired a
publisher, Austin Beutner, who was pursuing an aggressively local strategy designed to shore up the paper's value and
influence on its home turf.
No
publisher in the history of journalism has enjoyed the same kind of
influence over the news consumption of the world.
Apple had been rumored to be in secret negotiations with
publishers for a deal with similar price points for e-books on the iPad, which may help give
publishers more
influence over how their books are priced.
Traditional
publishers enjoy a near - monopoly of their products in franchised and independent book stores because of the deals they can make regarding return of product, discounted prices, and the fear books store owners harbor
over Amazon's expanding
influence over the market place.
The traditional dominant players —
publishers and booksellers — will have little
influence over its outcome and it's a time when technology leadership might change, including Amazon's dominance of the first major wave of ebooks.
I hate handing
over control of things to anyone so the thought of a
publisher telling me what to write, when to publish, having
influence on my covers etc, was definitely not something I'd have been able to do easily.