Let's lock all
the publishers in a big room and see how quickly they can borrow three items.
Not exact matches
Also
in those days,
in the
big New York
publishers, there were
rooms and
rooms full of what is called «slush.»
I don't understand how most of my friends (some with the same small
publisher) ended up
in the smaller
room and I ended up
in the
big room.
Writers who haven't been published by The
Big 5 assume that once they get a deal with one of these big fish, they'll be able to sit in their living rooms and wait for their publishers to set up their interviews with Ellen and Colbe
Big 5 assume that once they get a deal with one of these
big fish, they'll be able to sit in their living rooms and wait for their publishers to set up their interviews with Ellen and Colbe
big fish, they'll be able to sit
in their living
rooms and wait for their
publishers to set up their interviews with Ellen and Colbert.
While the publishing climate is certainly changing, I think as long as sales are tracked through traditional outlets and
publishers continue to put the most emphasis using Bookscan as a primary sales reference point — versus an author's statement that the book has sold 3,000 copies
in back - of - the -
room sales or as ebooks —
big publishers are going to be wary of publishing authors that are showing, say, 100 copies sold.
If that were true, the authors would have been listed alphabetically
in both
rooms and no demarcation line between those who were indie (which seems to include those of us who are published by smaller
publishers, although I was put
in the
big room) and those who were published by the Big Fi
big room) and those who were published by the
Big Fi
Big Five.
Not everyone got to be
in the
big room (I suspect that
publishers paid to be there)