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Last updated on September 19, 2024.
What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after publishing a book.
When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'
With some of the samples that I chose to use, tracking down the person that owns the publishing has become a task.
My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.
Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations.
That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park.
Writers can feel pretty powerless in the big corporate world of publishing, but sometimes our greatest power is the ability to say 'no.'
Of all the climatologists whose careers depend on the climate changing to keep themselves publishing articles — yes, I could read that, but I don't believe it.
Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence.
I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.
Publishing companies and a great many authors have missed the opportunity to capitalize on the very real relationships they create with their readers.
There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes.
With a 100-year perspective, the real value of the personal computer is not spreadsheets, word processors or even desktop publishing. It's the Web.
Publishing can be a cliquish and incestuous business; it is not uncommon for writers from the same agencies and publishers to review each other.
Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like 'Ebony' and 'Jet' magazines.
Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like Ebony and Jet magazines.
Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.
My wife and I are involved in writing/publishing/promotion twenty-four/seven. It isn't a day job; it's life.
My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
Most people involved in the delivery of history, in universities, publishing, museums and the heritage industry, are aware that we have a problem with diversity and inclusivity.
A lot of people who are passionate about digital or publishing, they either want to be in New York or Brooklyn.
The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.
I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
I think having kids has been the biggest influence on my work since I started publishing.
A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.
I understand it is 13-8 against Egon Ronay publishing a Good Betting Shop Food Guide by 1997.
I started a publishing company just so I could get the phone numbers of everyone that I'd ever admired.
I didn't start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short films.
One of the biggest costs in the whole scientific publishing world is borne by the academic community, which is the peer review.
When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was a new author.
In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!
The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success.
The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.
With traditional publishing, books might be pulled due to plagiarism or libel - but rarely for content, and especially not without a widespread outcry.
I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading.
I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.
One of the great advantages of only publishing five books per year is that I get to be excited about every book.
If I stop working and publishing, and TV, and film and all that, I would be dead within a couple of weeks. I don't really have that kind of off-switch.
The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.
The Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice should take a long, hard look at the standard publishing contract.
The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.
Automattic's mission has always been very aligned with WordPress itself, which is to democratise publishing.
I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
Much of my publishing life was consumed by the memoirs of movie stars - or by attempts to get them to write a memoir.
As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.
Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future.
Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.
The publication of the Revised New Testament by the two University Presses on May 17, 1881, was the most sensational in the annals of publishing.
Sometimes, I'll hear from other writers or folks in the publishing industry that my books are rule-breakers, which I take as a compliment.
I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.
One of the best book marketing tips I can give you is simply building relationships - well that and publishing more books.
Amazon has a good track record for blowing up industries, and fashion needs to look at what has happened to music, publishing and media.
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.
I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.
While I was in Montrose, the publishing checks went into the band's coffers. This was our management's decision; we were just financing ourselves on the road.
