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  • heehee

    heehee

  • Jodi, check my update just

    Jodi, check my update just posted. It links to Mike Shatzkin's site that addresses a lot of your questions. It is inpenetrably technical. But has good information

  • Can't entirely answer your question

    I am sure that there are people in the production process of publishing who can give you a definitive answer. Manufacturing is a relatively small part of list price. I assume about 10% or less.

  • Maxwell Perkins

    Perkins is always the example of the editor who represents the heart and soul of publishing. I think editors still are book lovers, and I know that they work hard to improve a project after it has be

  • Peter, thank you for sharing

    Peter, thank you for sharing your ideas. I'm not exactly arguing against e-books. I'm sure that most of what you say is true.

  • sniffing books

    Yea. I know what you mean. Since I worked in a bookstore for 35 years, I got used to the smell and didn't think about it.

  • Thanks for commenting, Mara.

    Thanks for commenting, Mara. It is always nice hearing from you. I don't have a Kindle.

  • I certainly wouldn't mind if

    I certainly wouldn't mind if my clients got $7,000,000. But sometimes you have to settle for $7000

  • Mara, it sounds like you

    Mara, it sounds like you should be teaching the class. I'd like to hear more about Publisher X. But I am giving a class on "The Book Deal" at Book Passage on Jan. 9.

  • more on advances

    Michael, I wasn't negotiating advances in the past, so I can only speak second hand. But I think there was always a tendency to advance more than was realistic for the sales.