Publishing Industry Quotes

• With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem.

  Clay Shirky

  Data, Digital, Problem

  "Clay Shirky analyzes the newspaper Holocaust" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. March 14, 2009.

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• If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Ideas, Publishing, Industry

  The Book Reporter interview, www.bookreporter.com. April 21, 2000.

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• New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  New York, Stars, Suicidal

  "The Exchange: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Menachem Kaiser, www.newyorker.com. June 8, 2009.

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• People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  People, Stories, Might

  "No hay vida real". Entrevista con Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. 15 de marzo de 2013.

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• The publishing industry is stuck somewhere in the Jurassic era.

  Vantile Whitfield

  Eras, Stuck, Publishing

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• 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.

  Calvin Trillin

  Book, Writing, Lunch

  Calvin Trillin (1987). "Uncivil liberties", Penguin Group USA

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• The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading.

  Leslie Jamison

  Reading, Editors, People

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• It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  Book, Ipads, Interesting

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• 'Harry Potter' opened so many doors for young adult literature. It really did convince the publishing industry that writing for children was a viable enterprise. And it also convinced a lot of people that kids will read if we give them books that they care about and love.

  Rick Riordan

  Niños, Libro, Escritura

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• I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.

  Matthew Specktor

  Thinking, Grows, Publishing

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  Kate Zambreno

  Thinking, Space, Online

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden

  Publicity, Sometimes, Promotion

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• 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.

  Jim Goad

  Writing, Men, Years

  Fuente: love-and-pop.com

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• This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this.

  Ann Patchett

  Jobs, Responsible, Well Being

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• Estaba en el segundo año de mi doctorado cuando se me ocurrió la idea. Hacía poco que había empezado a trabajar como traductora, lo que significaba, por un lado, que oía hablar a otros traductores de libros que parecían increíbles y, por otro, que estaba conociendo lo suficiente la industria editorial como para ser consciente de todos los prejuicios implícitos que dificultaban la publicación de estos libros, sobre todo si no eran de lenguas europeas (más difíciles de descubrir, los editores no pueden leer el original, falta de programas de financiación, autores que no hablan inglés).

  Deborah Smith

  Libro, Años, Hablar inglés

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• 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.

  Deborah Smith

  Low Income, Lows, Backgrounds

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• Mi creencia de que la industria editorial está dirigida por mojigatos y cobardes se remonta a muchos años antes incluso de que se me ocurriera la idea del libro.

  Jessa Crispin

  Running, Book, Years

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• 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.)

  Matthew Specktor

  Pensamiento, Gente, Camino

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  Brad Listi

  Optimistic, Games, Transition

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  George W. Bush

  Mentirosos, Mentir, Libro

  "War no joke for Bush at correspondents' dinner". edition.cnn.com. May 2, 2004.

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• 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.

  Toni Morrison

  Girl, Struggle, Boys

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 1, 2012.

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• But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported by think tanks that increasingly function as public-relations agencies, conservatives have built a whole alternative knowledge system, with its own facts, its own history, its own laws of economics.

  David Frum

  Book, Thinking, Agency

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• Hatori: "SHIGURE... I WILL TELL EVERYONE IN THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT YOU, STARTING FROM WHEN YOU WERE FOUR YEARS OLD..." Shigure: "Sorry, Tohru-kun. My lips are sealed!

  Natsuki Takaya

  Sorry, Years, Four

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• There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.

  Alan Moore

  Growing, Bigs, Distrust

  "Alan Moore On Watchmen’s 'Toxic Cloud' And Creativity V. Big Business". Interview with Susan Karlin, www.fastcompany.com. February 14, 2012.

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• 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.

  Doris Lessing

  Running, Self, Tunes

  "In their own words: literary giants who died this year" by Jess Sutcliffe, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2013.

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