Tag: publishing contracts
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Of Supply, Demand, and The Woeful Truth About Publishing and Authors…
Author and publisher, Zetta Brown’s recent blog, “Authors! Can’t find your book in a bookstore? You may be luckier than you think!”, got me to thinking–no pun intended–about the old law of economics, that of supply and demand. With bookstores and sellers tightly adhering to what seems to me, an outdated mode of purchasing books…
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Of Dreams, Making them Real and What We Are Willing to Pay…
I recently read two articles on acclaimed mystery author, Janet Evanovich, the first stating that she had requested $50 million from her then publisher St. Martin’s Press to renew her contract, the second, published some weeks later, announcing that in response to St. Martin’s had refusing the requested amount, Evanovich had subsequently returned to Bantam/Random…