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With Instapaper, I can take a few months off. I can't stop publishing 'The Magazine' for two months and work on something else.
One of the biggest costs in the whole scientific publishing world is borne by the academic community, which is the peer review.
To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.
One of the great business virtues of high publishing was that it was a difficult business to enter. You had to stand for something.
I don't Twitter or blog. I'm bad at small talk, and don't have good 'chat'. Talk to me about publishing, and I can go on for hours.
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
The Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice should take a long, hard look at the standard publishing contract.
I have taught Philosophy, Religious Studies, English Literature, Cultural Studies, Writing and Publishing Studies, Critical Thinking.
My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
I'd done occasional short stories, but I don't like publishing them in literary magazines; they treat you too much like college boys.
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.
Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.
Race and gender quotas, whether in publishing, the media, or scientific research labs, are becoming more extreme and more ineluctable.
When I got my first publishing deal, I felt some responsibility to try to write with the people that they were asking me to write with.
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.
Since signing up to Think Act Report, the majority of members are taking more action and publishing more information on gender equality.
Writers can feel pretty powerless in the big corporate world of publishing, but sometimes our greatest power is the ability to say 'no.'
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.
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 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.
Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever.
What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy period of time.
I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.
The model of publishing is changing and its happening right now, but most publishers are so frightened, they just dont know how to embrace it.
In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then.
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.
I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.
I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.
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.
I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money.
Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.
What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our collective memory.
I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got record royalties.
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.
I believe we should come down very firmly on the guilty without infringing the civil liberties of the innocent, like publishing mobile phone bills.
Co-creation is much more work than writing somewhere in a hidden corner and then publishing your content. However, the benefits outweigh the costs.
It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.
I think that writing texts, publishing texts, selling texts in a physical book store is one of the important tools for breeding this new generation.
To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.
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.
A good part of the work is just reading a manuscript and coming to the office. I can't imagine wanting to even read an article about book publishing.
Nobody sells books like J.K. Rowling. We have a rule in publishing: Never compare anything to 'Harry Potter' because it's like lightning in a bottle.
A cool thing about enthusiast press is the low barrier to entry. Anyone can decide they want to set out on this path and start publishing immediately.
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
I call Algonquin Books 'the gods and goddesses of publishing.' Not only did they give me a career, they care deeply about every writer in their flock.
It's not like publishing is perfect. Far from it. The industry is struggling to adapt and survive, and it's incredibly frustrating trying to break in.
With traditional publishing, books might be pulled due to plagiarism or libel - but rarely for content, and especially not without a widespread outcry.
The whole world of publishing is moving to electronic, but when you put a poem on a screen and you increase the type size, the shape of a poem changes.
My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.