Publishers Quotes

You need to have a gang, a godmother, a godfather, somebody who can make you get a buss. A writer is held hostage by the publishers who are here. - Colin Channer

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread. - Guillermo Cabrera Infante

While price premiums don't always exist, higher prices for recycled and [Forest Stewardship Council-certified] paper is the most common hurdle that prevents publishers from producing books more ethically. - Tyson Miller

While Nintendo has experienced market share declines in the console and handheld industries, their moves are very important for third party publishers. - Evan Wilson

While BitTorrent already has become the de facto protocol for cooperative distribution on the Internet, DCM shares our belief that BitTorrent will become the ideal platform for both independent publishers and the world's leading media companies alike. - Bram Cohen

Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are. - Robert Caro

When one looks at the results so far for Stephen King, it is something of a wash... He simply has made back the money it cost him to pursue this means of reaching his audience with his latest work. For authors who don't have the track record, reputation and built-in audience following of a Stephen King, obviously his example is one that doesn't necessarily encourage them to go out and dismiss their publishers. - Allan Adler

When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into. - Terri Windling

What we're able to give publishers is some really valuable market research. [We] were able to take all that information [gathered from agents] and drop it into trend buckets. One of the valuable services we offer publishers is the market feedback for a particular book. If we're doing a campaign for a hardcover it'll help us promote the paperback edition. - Michelle Hanson

What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit. - Piers Anthony