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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[trixalicious.livejournal.com]

Absolutely fascinating. I have two final research papers due in the next nine hours or so, but I promise you that I learned more by procrastinating and reading this entry than I did "researching" my paper topics (which is only partly because I haven't really started my research yet).

Seriously. Gold star!

[alg.livejournal.com]

Hahahahahaha. Awesome. Always happy to help the procrastinators!