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anna genoese ([personal profile] alg) wrote2006-04-20 02:05 pm

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

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.

Re: Strange

[identity profile] ryanlrussell.livejournal.com 2006-04-25 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
See, I would tend to think that novels would sell better, bigger market.

And a few of my books might qualify as novels, but they are still sold to the Computers buyers at the bookstores. "Hacker fiction" might decribe them.