“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 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
“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
“When I went into the publishing industry, many women talked about the difficulty they had in persuading their families to let them go to college. They educated the boys, and the girls had to struggle.” GirlBoysStruggleCollegeIndustryDifficultyEducatedPublishingPersuadingPublishing Industry Author:Toni Morrison
“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
“... 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
“People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.” PeopleStoriesMightIndustryPublishingPublishing Industry Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.” ThinkingGrowsIndustryCorporatePublishingMovie BusinessPublishing Industry Author:Matthew Specktor
“I think having power ingrains people with a conservatism. There's a tendency to hedge one's bets. (Which explains a lot, actually, about why the movie business is the way it is, and why the publishing industry is too.)” PeopleThinkingWayIndustryTendenciesPublishingConservatismMovie BusinessPublishing Industry Author:Matthew Specktor
“I think the online space can be a free space, in that we are not reliant online on the publishing industry or readers who just don't get it.” ThinkingSpaceIndustryReaderOnlinePublishingPublishing Industry Author:Kate Zambreno
“I feel like it's a good time to be a writer. I'm terminally optimistic. It seems like the publishing industry is in the middle of a big transition, and that the rules of the game are still sorting themselves out.” FeelsStillsBigsSeemsGamesMiddleIndustryOptimisticGood TimesTransitionPublishingSortingRules Of The GamePublishing Industry Author:Brad Listi
“The publishing industry is stuck somewhere in the Jurassic era.” IndustryStuckErasPublishingPublishing Industry Author:Vantile Whitfield
“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
“And to improve access to the UK publishing industry - I'm hoping to set up an internship or work experience for someone from a low-income background, as soon as we have the funds. While we don't have the funds, we won't have an intern.” IndustryLowsAccessBackgroundsIncomeFundPublishingLow IncomePublishing IndustryInternshipsWork Experience Author:Deborah Smith
“Not only are unpaid internships exploitative, they're one of the main forces keeping publishing in this country a primary white middle-class industry, which has a direct knock-on effect on what gets published and how.” CountryForceWhiteClassMiddleEffectsIndustryDirectPrimariesMiddle ClassPublishingInternships 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
“This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this.” WellsJobsIndustryResponsibleWell BeingPublishingLivelihoodPublishing Industry Author:Ann Patchett
“In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the same fervor that men do.” MenWritingYearsLongFoundIndustrySticksPublishingFervorToilingPublishing Industry Author:Jim Goad