P&Ls and how books make (or don't) money
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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.
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: How paperbacks came to be sold like magazines
Date: 2006-04-24 12:54 am (UTC)Also, Penguin got started just before the war, and isn't (until many decades later) really part of the story of the American mass-market paperback. Although Penguin is definitely an important modern story all by itself.