From: Olgy Gary <omgary>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:06:37 -0600

> They are profit-making ventures, after all.
I agree. Publishers have to be if they hope to stay in business.

> think of Emma Dryden's speech last summer at CLNE where she
> pointed out that doing these sorts of books gives publishers
> the space to also do the smaller ones, those that they can't
> promise are going to either capture the media and/or make
Dryden makes a good point. Thanks for sharing it. Ok then, if this is the problem, i.e., one reason publishers feel they need to publish celebrity books, what then is the solution? In my mind part of the solution involves getting authors to roll up their sleeves, way before they're even published and certainly afterwards, and become willing and enthusiastic partners in the marketing of their titles and the building of their platforms.

Olgy
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Received on Sun 10 Jun 2007 05:06:37 PM CDT