Publishing Quotes - Page 21

• One of the best book marketing tips I can give you is simply building relationships - well that and publishing more books.

  Heather Hart

  Book, Giving, Marketing

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• I understand it is 13-8 against Egon Ronay publishing a Good Betting Shop Food Guide by 1997.

  Clement Freud

  Gambling, Guides, Shops

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• I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

  Otis Blackwell

  Vegas, Publishing House, Gentleman

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• 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.

  Matt Drudge

  Powerful, School, Dynasty

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• Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.

  Jackson Browne

  Two, People, Mind Your Own Business

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• My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the idea for the book.

  Jessa Crispin

  Running, Book, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Keep your head down, avoid all the distractions of being a writer today—all the shifts in the business, all the drama, all the debating about where publishing is going—and write the best story that you can. It sounds a bit glib, but I think this is advice a lot of people are having trouble following right now. It is so hard to focus. But that is the single key to success.

  Jeff Abbott

  Drama, Writing, Thinking

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• New information and communications technologies can improve the quality of life for people with disabilities, but only if such technologies are designed from the beginning so that everyone can use them. Given the explosive growth in the use of the World Wide Web for publishing, electronic commerce, lifelong learning and the delivery of government services, it is vital that the Web be accessible to everyone.

  William J. Clinton

  Communication, Technology, Government

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• You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book, because you wrote the thing. You've been backstage. You've seen how the rabbits were smuggled into the hat. Therefore ask a reading friend or two to look at it before you give it to anyone in the publishing business. This friend should not be someone with whom you have a ­romantic relationship, unless you want to break up.

  Margaret Atwood

  Reading, Book, Writing

  "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this - the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast.

  Clay Shirky

  Funny, Thoughtful, Focus

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• I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Book, Writing, World

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• All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Significant, 1960s, Fewer

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

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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, Industry, Ifs

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

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• Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishing isn’t easy, but it’s fun and sometimes even lucrative. Plus, your book could change the world.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Fun, Book, Self

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• There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between record labels, publishing companies and artists [about the compensation they get from streaming services] Spotify is returning a HUGE amount of money [to the record labels]. If we continue growing at our current rate in terms of subscriptions and downloads, we'll overtake iTunes in terms of contributions to the recorded music business in under two years.

  Sean Parker

  Artist, Years, Two

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• Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in publishing Newton's masterful account of his discoveries.

  Julian Schwinger

  Discovery, Important, Royal

  Julian Schwinger (2012). “Einstein's Legacy: The Unity of Space and Time”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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• It's always helpful to look outside of the web for your inspiration, to places where you might not at first expect to find a solution. The world is a collage of inspiration, from newspapers, magazine publishing, and advertising to product design, architecture and the fine arts.

  Andy Clark

  Art, Inspiration, Design

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• I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.

  John Lescroart

  Couple, Book, Anecdotes

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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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• You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Thinking, World, Tough

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• You can buy attention (advertising). You can beg for attention from the media (PR). You can bug people one at a time to get attention (sales). Or you can earn attention by creating something interesting and valuable and then publishing it online for free.

  David Meerman Scott

  Business, Media, Creating

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• The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Events

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• The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.

  Alfred Kazin

  Writing, Order, Ideas

  1963 In Think, Feb.

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• Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land, where the notes are read and then possibly cherished, or else misinterpreted, or else understood all too well by those who hate the message. You never know who your readers might be.

  Margaret Atwood

  Hate, Book, Sea

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• 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.

  Jodi Picoult

  Process

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