Quotes About Industry

Higher ebook prices only benefit one group: publishers.

Prior to 2009, when publishers scoffed at the ebook market, they offered writers contracts which gave us half of the money they made off ebook sales.

With the big publishers, they publish 50 books and promote five.

When there are fewer and fewer publishers of scale, it's just not good for authors.

Self-publishing has been a dubious challenge to traditional publishers, at best.

Like most new writers, I could only hope that one day one publisher might agree to publish one of my books; I couldn't imagine several publishers all wanting to buy the first book I'd written.

Artists deserve more than a check cut in half eight times by publishers.

A very great deal is written about the future of book publishing - much more than on its present or past - and the only takeaway from all these oracles seems to be that a great empire will be destroyed.

One of the epiphanies I had was that I got into publishing because I love literature.

The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.

The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.

The publishing industry is not immune to gossips.

Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.

People are very frightened in publishing at the moment. Nobody knows what sells. More so now because the market's changing so fundamentally because of Kindle and electronic publishing. It's a fundamental shift in the way stories are put out into the world.

I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.

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.

Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.

Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.

Publishing companies are like schoolyard bullies that can't even fight well.

Publishing had been successful where there had been natural geographic monopolies.

Publishing is a business of relationships. The relationships you make at one house can carry over to another.

I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.

I used to read music books when I was 13. My mom was working at a library. She's a librarian. I would get my mom to check out any kind of books that had anything to do with the music industry. I read a lot about royalities, publishing, marketing, stuff like that.

I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.