After all, publishers have been taking chances on
much smaller print runs for much more risky authors than ones with proven fanbases for a long time — it's pretty much been their whole business model.
Not exact matches
To my surprise, the crispness of the high contrast text meant I could read
much smaller print; whether it would cause eye strain in the long
run I don't know, but it made me think.
A
small press publisher takes a larger chance on you because they have
small print runs, but that also means they spend
much more time with you, and you have a
smaller risk of having to mold your work to fit what they think the industry wants (as is sometimes the case with larger publishers).
Now, BookPage reviews a lot of different kinds of books, from commercial books that have
print runs in the millions, to literary novels by debut authors with
much smaller first
printings.
Matthew Moeller: Well, I think the big thing was just trying to move away from the bundles and bundles of paper and I'm not saying that you should be a 100 % paperless, I mean, it's still today I often
print things out to look at I have
smaller books that maybe do not have material that's easy to navigate online on a bookshelf that I can just grab, but the days of the big file cabinets in the back of the office and the unlimited number of redwells falling out everywhere, that was something when I went out on my own that I certainly envisioned was not going to be a part of kind of how we do things, and I think in moving away from that you're able to better control your operating costs, you're able to keep overhead to a lower level, and ultimately, I think you're able to deliver more value to the client and
running a
much more streamlined process.