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nytimes publishing Self-Publishing

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  • publishing is like Hollywood — nobody ever does the marketing they promise.
  • Mr. Mamet is taking advantage of a new service being offered by his literary agency, ICM Partners, as a way to assume more control over the way his book is promoted.
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      whoelscher on 17 Apr 13
       
      Interesting direction for an agency to take. Is this the future for literary agents? Will they simply become self-publishing services? Will they maintain their role as gatekeepers or will they open up their services to everyone?
  • New Publisher Authors Trust: Themselves
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  • ICM, which will announce its new self-publishing service on Wednesday, is one of the biggest and most powerful agencies to offer the option. But others are doing the same as they seek to provide additional value to their writers while also extending their reach in the industry.
  • Trident Media Group
  • mostly for reissuing older titles, the backlist.
  • InkWell Management
  • she would not leave Harper completely because she loves her editor.
  • They treat it like a small business
  • the big publishers focused mostly on blockbuster books and fell short on other titles — by publishing too few copies, for instance, or limiting advertising to only a short period after a book was released.
  • If an author self-publishes, what, then, is the role of a literary agency?
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Publishing Perils in the Digital Age - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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publishing nytimes book contract

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  • whoelscher on 19 Oct 11
     
    The walls are crumbling...are the no-compete and the option clause in author contracts doomed?
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What the Penguin-Random Merger Says About the Future of the Book Business - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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merger book business

shared by whoelscher on 29 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • most observers expect that this is just the beginning of a series of mergers — like those in the music business — that will take the Big Six publishers down to the Big Three and perhaps one day even the Big One.
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Long Odds for Authors Newly Published - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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odds authors published

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  • But if the book is as good as critics are now saying it is, why didn’t it sell more copies before, especially since the rise of online publishing has supposedly made it easier than ever for first-time authors?
  • Given how difficult it is for first-time fiction authors, especially in a crowded genre like mystery, to find both an agent and publisher, it’s not clear “The Cuckoo’s Calling” would have made it off the slush piles.
  • An editor there told The Telegraph in London that the book “didn’t stand out.”
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  • a publishing contract is hardly a guarantee of critical or commercial success.
  • Mr. Entrekin cited “Matterhorn,” by first-time novelist Karl Marlantes, which he published in 2010. The author “worked on the book for over 20 years and couldn’t find a publisher,” Mr. Entrekin said. Then, as the book was about to be published in a tiny first edition, Mr. Entrekin got a copy from a buyer at Barnes & Noble, loved it, and bought out the first printing.
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shared by whoelscher on 03 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • “Robert was doing rather better than we expected him to,” she wrote. Ms. Dewey said it had sold an additional 5,000 copies in the United States, for a total of 13,500, which is “a great achievement for any unknown author.”
  • “It would have stayed on the path it was on, which is towards oblivion.”
  • “It’s the power of the author brand,” Mr. Entrekin said.
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  • “Most books come out and do nothing,” Ms. Coady said. “There are still too many books being published. We can only get behind so many books, and then hope they take off on their own. It worries me that so many slip through the cracks.”
  • “There’s no formula,” he said. “A publisher can only do so much. A book’s fate is ultimately in the hands of the book gods.”
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