P&Ls and how books make (or don't) money

[alg]

Profit & Loss/Profitability & Liability: How Books Make (or Don't Make!) Money

A basic outline of what happens when an editor buys a book and wants to publish it. This is very much a basic look at publishing and publishing finance, with some explanation of terms commonly used by the marketing and sales departments.

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[alg.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHAHA times a million!

[tharain.livejournal.com]

::grins::

I might not win, but I score. =D

[(Anonymous)]

Beware the rattlers in the stomach, for they are notions of motion, sound and furies, signifying nothing.

^ The above mangled, mixed metaphor combines Farscape, Ecclesiastes, and the Bard in ways heretofore I did not even contemplate.

The rattlers in your stomach don't mean a thing. -- Reach for the stars and grab 'em. This is your playground. Remember that, son (or jirl).

[tharain.livejournal.com]

And, of coruse....the pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon! The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true...