“I'm a people person, very approachable. I go out every night, tons of functions. I love all facets of this industry... Music, film, TV, books, art. I love being around creative people.” PeoplePersonsArtBookFilmNightLove IsCreativeTvsIndustryFunctionEvery NightCreative PeopleFacets Author:Guy Oseary
“I know publishing now more as an author than with occasional peaks inside those elite offices than as an industry insider. It was difficult publishing a novel the first time around, while working behind the scenes, knowing all that has to happen to make a book a success and to still make the leap as an author.” KnowsFirstsStillsBookHappensDifficultBehindsNovelKnowingIndustrySceneOfficeFirst TimeLeapElitesPublishingOccasionalBehind The ScenesInsidersWorking Behind The Scenes Author:Jennifer Gilmore
“I think publishing's strength is also its weakness. It's got such a rich and celebrated history as an industry. For the most part, publishing people are incredibly creative, business is done based on the strength of relationships, and the product being peddled is books.” PeopleThinkingBookDoneCreativeRichProductsIndustryWeaknessPublishingCreative Business Author:Jennifer Gilmore
“I have seen books made of things neither studied nor ever understood ... the author contenting himself for his own part, to have cast the plot and projected the design of it, and by his industry to have bound up the fagot of unknown provisions; at least the ink and paper his own. This may be said to be a buying or borrowing, and not a making or compiling of a book.” MayMadeSaidBookDesignIndustryPaperUnderstoodBoundsCastsBuyingPlotInkProvisionBorrowingInk And PaperFagots Author:Michel de Montaigne
“Make sure you meet the right people, people who know that industry and are willing to help you. Do your homework - read books about the industry, talk to people. If you don't know something, ask.” PeopleIfsKnowsBookHelpingAsksWillingIndustryHomework Author:Anwar Robinson
“The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which we cut down trees to make the paper that we then use enormous amounts of electricity to turn into books that weigh a great deal and are then shipped enormous distances to point-of-sale retail.” ThinkingShouldBookUseTurnsDealsCuttingTreeIndustryAmountPaperImpactDistanceMarketingEnormousTraditionalElectricityEcologicalRetail Author:William Gibson
“Open the book of universal history at what period we may, it is always the India trade which is the cause of internal industry and foreign negotiation.” MayBookCausesIndustryPeriodsUniversalIndiaTradeInternalsNegotiation Book:The Martyrdom of Man Source: The Martyrdom of Man
“I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level the transition to digital isn't something I welcome wholeheartedly.” BookSufferingLevelsIndustryPaperSellingWelcomeDigitalTransitionPublishersMany FriendsWholeheartedlyGood Living Author:Barry Eisler
“I thought, 'Okay, what's going to be my edge, and how am I going to define what I'm doing differently?' Once I had that key idea of the software developer as an artist, once I had that idea, a whole bunch of other ideas flowed from that, because I realized that I need to go study the music industry, I need to study the book publishing and Hollywood and figure out how they do things, why they do them that way, and then I need to borrow, and rearrange, the things that they're doing to fit my industry so that I can invent and create this new industry.” WayNeedsI CanBookIdeasWholeArtistStudyFiguresKeysIndustryFitOkayHollywoodEdgesI RealizedBunchSoftwarePublishingMusic IndustryDevelopersBook Publishing Author:Trip Hawkins
“The good news is that the comics field is small enough and informal enough that once you have made a comic, you have achieved your dreams: you have broken into the comics industry. The problem with breaking in, though, is that staying in is harder.” MadeBookEnoughProblemDreamFieldsBrokenIndustryNewsHarderComicYour DreamsStayingComic BookGood NewsDreams You Have Author:Greg Pak
“What keeps this industry alive is creators doing their own work. Once you change a costume or origin enough times, it's a dead body - you're just electrocuting it and keeping it sort of shambling on. There is a lot more creator-owned stuff now, and some of it I look at and go, 'Oh, that's his pitch for a TV show. That's his pitch for a movie. That's him saying oh, this kind of thing sells.' I didn't do that.” LooksKindBookEnoughShowsBodyStuffAliveTvsIndustrySellsCreatorComicComic BookTv ShowsCostumesEnough Time Author:Mike Mignola
“A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.” Has BeensBookSelfIndustryCensorshipDrearyCentralizationSelf Censorship Book:The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller Source: The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller
“This is what happens when the discourse of publishing, defined and driven by spoken and written language, is talked about in exactly the same vocabulary and syntax as any widgetmaking industry. Books are reformulated as 'product' - like screwdrivers or flea-bombs or soap - and the majority of writers are perceived as typists with bad attitudes.” BookHappensLanguageAttitudeWrittenProductsIndustryMajorityDrivenDefinedBombsPublishingDiscourseVocabularySoapFleasBad AttitudeSyntaxWritten LanguageScrewdrivers Author:Suzette Haden Elgin
“I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsBookRealLastsSupportIndustryPaperSmellPrintedReal BooksPrinted Books Author:Gary Shteyngart
“Daren Hardy's The Compound Effect is a culmination of success principles that is relevant to anyone who needs it! As a thought leader, he is making a significant contribution to our industry. A wonderful book!” NeedsBookLeaderPrinciplesWonderfulEffectsIndustrySignificantContributionRelevantCompoundsHardyCulmination Author:Stedman Graham
“Having observed his market calls real time over the years, I can say that Jason Perl's application of the DeMark Indicators distinguishes his work from industry peers when it comes to market timing. This book demonstrates how traders can benefit from his insight, using the studies to identify the exhaustion of established trends or the onset of new ones. Whether you're fundamentally or technically inclined, Perl's DeMark Indicators is an invaluable trading resource.” YearsI CanBookRealStudyIndustryBenefitsResourcesInsightTrendsApplicationTimingPeersTradingExhaustionJasonInvaluableTradersIndicatorsPerlMarket Timing Author:Leon G. Cooperman
“The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.” PeopleBookRealityCommunityLeadershipTechnologyGenerationsMediaIndustryEvolutionInternetHappeningsCapitalismStrategyPropertyIndividualitySocial MediaComplainingSellingIdeologyConsumerismFree MarketAmazon Author:Jeff Bezos
“It really gets me when the critics say I haven't done enough for the economy. I mean, look what I've done for the book publishing industry. You've heard some of the titles. 'Big Lies,' 'The Lies of George W. Bush,' 'The Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.' I'd like to tell you I've read each of these books, but that'd be a lie.” LooksMeanBookDoneEnoughBigsLyingEconomyHeardHavensIndustryCriticsTitlesLiarsPublishingPublishing IndustryBook Publishing Author:George W. Bush
“Those of us who think about what we eat, how it's grown, those of us who care about the environmental impact of food - we've been educated by fabulous books, like Fast Food Nation and documentaries like Food Inc. But despite these and other great projects that shine a critical light on the topic, every year the food industry spends literally tens of millions of dollars to shape the public conversation about our food system.” ThinkingYearsBookLightCareNationsMillionsIndustryShapesConversationProjectsImpactDollarsShiningEnvironmentalCriticalDespiteEducatedTopicsDocumentariesFabulousWho CaresFast FoodFood IndustryEnvironmental ImpactFast Food Nation Author:Anna Lappe
“The spirit that America has, the American industry creativity it has where anything is possible. Three idealistic Australians bringing in new ideas and being able to make the damn comic books that they've always dreamed about, it's kind of a cool thing.” KindBookIdeasAbleAmericaSpiritThreeCreativityIndustryComicDamnNew IdeasComic BookAnything Is PossibleIdealisticCool Things Author:Sam Worthington
“Ambivalence reaches the level of schizophrenia in our treatment of violence among the young. Parents do not encourage violence, but neither do they take up arms against the industries which encourage it. Parents hide their eyes from the books and comics, slasher films, videos and lyrics which form the texture of an adolescent culture. While all successful societies have inhibited instinct, ours encourages it. Or at least we profess ourselves powerless to interfere with it.” BookEyeFilmFormYoungCultureParentLevelsSuccessfulViolenceArmsIndustryInstinctVideoTreatmentInterfereAdolescencePowerlessTextureSchizophreniaAmbivalenceYoung Parents Author:C. Sommerville
“If it had anything to do with the PC or networking industry I was on top of it. I bought manuals. I read every book and magazine. Then I would get involved with industry conferences and put myself out there.” IfsBookIndustryInvolvedMagazinesConferencesNetworkingGet InvolvedManuals Author:Mark Cuban
“Joel Chandler Harris, who created a multi billion dollar industry, everything from his books, to Disney's "Song of the South" based upon the Uncle Remus stories. He got his start by transcribing the stories of slave Informants. I'm sure that none them got a dime.” BookStoriesSongIndustryDollarsSlaveSouthBillionsUnclesDimesInformantsTranscribing Author:Ishmael Reed
“... people in the newspaper industry saw the web as a newspaper. People in TV saw the web as TV, and people in book publishing saw it as a weird kind of potential book. But the web is not just some kind of magic all-absorbing meta-medium. It's its own thing.” PeopleKindBookSawsMagicTvsIndustryNewspapersMediumsPublishingAbsorbingBook Publishing Author:Paul Ford
“Everybody says, TV is great, the writer has so much power. I'm still trying to convince myself that's true. When do the writers ever have power? Ever? They don't. Even in the book industry.” TryingStillsBookTvsIndustryConvince Author:Matthew Specktor
“I was in the second year of my PhD when I first had the idea - I'd recently started working as a translator, which meant firstly that I was hearing about amazing-sounding books from other translators, and also that I was getting enough of an insider's view of the publishing industry to be aware of all the implicit biases that made it so difficult for these books to ever get published, especially if they weren't from European languages (harder to discover, editors can't read the original, lack of funding programmes, authors who don't speak English).” IfsYearsFirstsMadeBookIdeasEnoughSpeakLanguageDifficultViewsIndustryHarderOriginalsHearingMade ItEditorsPublishingFundingProgrammesImplicitTranslatorsSpeak EnglishInsidersPhdsPublishing Industry Author:Deborah Smith
“My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the idea for the book.” YearsBookIdeasRunningBeliefIndustryCowardPublishingPublishing Industry Author:Jessa Crispin
“In a way, I'm glad I'm first because I won't have to panic about following anybody other than industry legend John Romita Jr. And he drew Daredevil: The Man Without Fear, which is one of the books that had a massive effect on me as a reader and an artist. It has been intimidating, scary, exciting, and incredibly satisfying.” MenWayFirstsHas BeensBookArtistEffectsHe ManIndustryReaderExcitingFollowingScaryGladMassiveSatisfyingLegendsPanicIntimidatingDaredevil Author:Declan Shalvey
“The American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has written about this in her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World (2009) . She talks about the happiness industry, the rise of medication to make us happy and of self-help books, and the influence of all this on religion. In many ways religion has become another form of self-help. We all suffer from over-exposure to positive thinking.” ThinkingWorldWayBookSelfHelpingAmericaFormSufferingDiesWrittenInfluenceSelf HelpPositive ThinkingIndustryJournalistExposureFooledMedicationBarbaraSelf Help BooksHelp Book Author:Mark Ravenhill
“It's learning your craft and understanding what it takes to survive in this industry. On the back of exposure from TV to books to Rachel Ray to Martha Stewart, the customer's integrity is far greater than every before. As a nation, just like the U.K., we don't complain enough. The more we complain in this country the better our restaurants will be.” BookCountryEnoughNationsUnderstandingGreaterTvsIndustryIntegrityCustomersComplainingCraftsRestaurantsRaysExposure Author:Gordon Ramsay
“The comic book industry has turned into the wellspring for all of these movies that are all based on the comic books.” BookIndustryComicComic BookWellspring Author:Stan Lee