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This Business of Publishing

Name: This Business of Publishing
Author: Richard Curtis

Richard Curtis,

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This Business of Publishing

Richard Curtis,

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This Business of Publishing has been hailed by literary agent Michael Larsen as "must reading for writers, agents and anyone else who cares about the future of publishing." It reveals the unique perspective of Richard Curtis, former president of the Association of Authors' Representatives. He provides the aspiring author with the benefit of over thirty years of lessons learned in the publishing industry, including: the damage caused to the publishing industry by the archaic practice of selling books on consignment; the changing nature of the wholesale business and how it affects authors, editors, and agents; the way that large corporate mergers of publishing companies have brought about the disenfranchisement of authors and editors; and the electronic media revolution and the opportunities it offers, as well as the pitfalls. Curtis talks about the "blockbuster mentality" that currently dominates publisher thinking, leading to increased dependence on a few overpaid authors with big-name market status.
This is an engaging and thoroughly readable guidebook to one of the most rapidly changing industries in America. It is an essential reference work for anyone hoping to understand or function in the publishing world.

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Publisher

Open Road Media

Year

2014

ISBN

9781497622203

Topic

Languages & Linguistics

Subtopic

Publishing

Index

Languages & Linguistics

Cover
Acknowledgments
Contents
Preface - Then and Now
Section One: Big Publishing
1 - Last Chance
2 - Orphans
3 - Wholesaler Revolution
4 - Big
5 - Incentives? Or Schmears?
6 - Belly-Up
7 - Journey to a Small Publisher
Section Two - Understanding Editors
8 - Editors - The New Disenfranchised
9 - Must Youth Be Served?
10 - Tote That Romance! Lift That Historical!
Section Three - Publishing, Twenty-First-Century Style
11 - Author? What’s an Author?
12 - Techno-Agents
13 - What’s New? Don’t Ask!
14 - Systems
Section Four - Understanding Authors
15 - Endangered Species
16 - What’s in a (Big) Name?
17 - Shared Worlds
18 - Down on the Levy
19 - Outrageous Fortune
20 - Green-Eyed Monsters
21 - Found Money
22 - The Two Worlds of Literature
Section Five - Is There a Future?
23 - Toward Reform
24 - The Client from Hell - A Short Story
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