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At this point in my career, I'm not interested in making people rich, like publishers and writers and producers. I've done enough of that.

E-mail marketing will continue to be effective as long as the legitimate publishers are very vigilant in complying with CAN-SPAM regulations and police it carefully.

EA has a bunch of underperforming games, and I think that the cuts reflect that. Other publishers will cut underperformers as well.

I see publishers bemoaning their fate and saying that this is the end of publishing. No! Publishers will recreate themselves. Some of that comes from my experience as a print publisher.

I've been trying to write a book since before I was old enough to vote, and I've collected many rejection slips from publishers and magazines. I used to keep them all stuck to my refrigerator, with magnets, but an ex-girlfriend told me they were depressing, and defeatist, and suggested I take them down. A very wise suggestion on her part.

The word was that there were some fairly punchy offers around, but perhaps it was difficult to achieve because of competition issues surrounding the other publishers buying the entire business.

The role that publishers play in terms of helping to put together the product in a way that has market appeal, in publicizing the product ... that's something that Stephen King was able to forgo by going directly to the public, based on his reputation, ... Most artists, and especially new authors, don't have that ability.

The specter of prison for a young Internet user does not seem to me terribly intelligent. We want to punish software publishers who make money ripping off millions of works.

The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.

Sony's recent digital rights management (DRM) fiasco highlighted the tightrope content producers employing DRM technologies are currently walking. Authors, artists and publishers now have the technological tools to better protect their digital creations but if they want consumers to pay for their digital work, they must find the right balance between copyright protection and customer expectations.

Publishers who are not known for their creativity and originality all jumped on the bandwagon.

Publishers were ever eager for authors to do their own publicity because nobody else was willing to do it for nothing. But then it became clear that if you want somebody to champion the story, there's nobody better than the person who made it all up.

Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.

Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess a lot of people want my benediction or something.

Publishers often push women in a subtle way to focus on fantasy and paranormal writing.

Publishers now really need revenue, and so they're going to push as far as they can until consumers push back and say 'Stop!' ... That's where the self-correcting aspect of the market will bring things back into line, when they push things too far.

Publishers love to compartmentalize, and 'Second Chance' was not an easy novel to define.

Publishers have always had a hard time selling and marketing the single, short-form work. Amazon.com has created a new way for authors to get that kind of work out there, which is incredibly exciting.

Publishers come out to look for teams to fill things in their roster, sometimes it's about being in the right place at the right time. Anything we publish generally involves a long-term relationship, attending Game Connection is vital to really stimulate that.

Publishers are born connectors; they bring like-minded people together. They are also conversationalists of the first order. They foster the interaction between the three key parties in commercial media: the audience, the author/creator and the marketer.

Publishers are already stretched thin to some extent developing for new products like PlayStation (and) developing for the Nintendo 'Dolphin,'

Prior to 2009, when publishers scoffed at the ebook market, they offered writers contracts which gave us half of the money they made off ebook sales.

Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule.

Some publishers think it gets them better service. And there's no way to prove that they're wrong. But when the transition happens, publishers should keep careful watch of service issues.

Some publishers liked to have six pieces in a sack because they thought the smaller sacks would be opened faster and thus delivered earlier. Theoretically that's true.

Some publishers have been concerned that consumers wouldn't support a move to recycled paper, especially if it caused a price increase. But this survey definitely indicates strong consumer support. It's big news for publishers, retailers and recycled paper providers.

Companies with aspirations to be larger publishers - Kabam, Kixeye, even Zynga - are moving aggressively off the Facebook platform to mobile and the open Web. Publishers aren't convinced that the costs of being on Facebook are worth it.

Despite the growing selection of games on the operators' portals, consumers still are not finding games that appeal to them and are complaining that prices are too high. Faster networks and devices with larger screens will help improve the discovery process, operators and games publishers must do a much better job of marketing and merchandising mobile gaming content.

Despite the exceptional efforts of a number of talented publishers and editors, the publishing formula for a monthly, general interest magazine was just not sustainable,

A public library does not acquire Internet terminals in order to create a public forum for Web publishers to express themselves, any more than it collects books in order to provide a public forum for the authors of books to speak.

Archie was in the fold of all the other publishers that I was working for, and I was probably averaging one story a week from them.

As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.

As all carriers more aggressively promote subscription-based models, they are also testing price inelasticity by gradually inching up average pricing. To grow the market, carriers must work in tandem with publishers to provide real value for a more expensive subscription, rather than treating it as just another pricing tactic.

Authors will make far more on those ebooks through direct sales than publishers are offering. There is no incentive for authors to sell those rights to traditional publishers which means, in the fairly short term, publishers run out of material to sell.

Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.

Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were.

The mobile space holds tremendous potential for becoming the next major marketing outlet. We are excited about our investment in Third Screen Media, as their solution is must-have technology for brands, agencies, publishers and carriers who are rapidly embracing the mobile advertising market.

This continuing increase in broadband use is an essential step in a maturing Internet industry, ... Compared with their narrowband counterparts, broadband users spend more time and money online because their surfing experience is faster, more persistent, and ultimately, more satisfying. This is good news for consumers, publishers and advertisers alike.

This category is fraught with issues as to whether publishers can even say go ahead and use them because they may not have the rights.

There was enormous interest from publishers in this book. We met with numerous publishers and ultimately conducted a traditional literary auction.

The requests for blurbs seem to come in waves. I'm not sure what precipitates them. I think it must be excruciating for editors to draft those elaborate letters asking for a blurb, and I know it's torturous for us writers to ask directly. But publishers encourage us to. Rock and a hard place.

There's a reason publishers don't build on top of social platforms: publishers are an independent lot, and they naturally understand the value of owning your own domain. Publishers don't want to be beholden to the shifting sands of inscrutable platform policies.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers

As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries.

It's just a great stock to own here, ... The company is growing in excess of 20 percent. The demographics are great for education. The company is selling at about 15 times what we think they can earn next year. It's also one of the few independent publishers left and so we think it's a strategic acquisition candidate, probably worth over $60 a share, and the stock's at about $45.

It was the beginning of youth culture and pandering to youth culture, ... In that, the comic book publishers were definitely pioneers.

It's not like me. But I was convinced by Larry and the publishers that in order for the book to have the attraction we wanted it to have, it had to be real and authentic.

It's really kind of shocking. I mean it's not common for publishers to pull a book before there's any sort of legal discussion.

The big publishers want someone they can send on the Jewish book circuit, somebody the old ladies can see marrying their granddaughters.

The biggest source of tension for publishers has been how many hardware units will be available for retail this holiday.

The bane of my existence is the synopses that publishers request for a new novel or series. That's where I'm really producing fiction - my final book never ends up looking like the synopsis.

The addition of AARP The Magazine to our roster of members enrolled in the Subscriber Profile service is further indication of the desirability the service has in the marketplace. Publishers and advertisers clearly realize the importance verified data and standardized reports play in the media buying process.

It's certainly smart for the publishers to do this.

The retailers have become publishers, so why can't publishers become retailers? It's an experimental thing. Everyone's trying to figure out what the right thing to do is.

Their experience, combined with our shared commitment to the (local) newspapers, makes them powerful allies as our publishers pursue strategies in their print and online market share.

In September 2005, I was three things: the media blogger for 'FishbowlNY,' a maniacal Daily Show fan, and the only person to smuggle a tape recorder and camera into a big Magazine Publishers of America event featuring Jon Stewart interviewing five hotshot magazine editors in an unbelievable bloodbath.

Because the textbook publishers are not going to lower their prices, we must combat the outrageous prices of textbooks at the local level.

George Orwell, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein and almost any writer you could name received rejection letters, ... Margaret Mitchell got rejection letters from 38 different publishers before anyone finally deigned to publish her novel, 'Gone With The Wind.' How many talented writers are there who gave up without ever making it into print because of misguided rejection?

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

You see what stupid folk my publishers are; but they are all alike.

No, my publisher has always done the marketing.

I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.

I do think that publishers will spend more time thinking about these things the next time out.

I am not willing to turn a blind eye to this and have agreed with the Gambling Commission that we should crack down on advertisers and publishers who knowingly break the law.

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread

I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.

Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.

The true experimenters are there but no-one hears about them - the critical/review system tends to concentrate on the handful of 'major' writers and their promising successors; bookshops tend not to sell them; publishers don't promote them. It's the same fate as has befallen poetry.

These are people who know each other producers, TV executives, book publishers a relatively small group of people.

This has happened before. Sometimes, publishers recall titles because of factual errors or litigation. ... A publisher makes a request. We will comply with it.

The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying, or hordes of readers and publishers from demanding more of what they previously enjoyed.

Ages ago, when I published 'Amelia's Notebook,' I'd sent it to traditional publishers I'd been working with, but nobody knew what to do with it. Tricycle was this small publisher who didn't know any better, and they took a chance.

Agents are deal makers, and they're really, really good at making deals. But they're also exceptionally helpful after the deal is made - agents act as a good intermediary between authors and publishers whenever disagreements come up.

The digital revolution has wrest a little control away from corporate publishers and white, male, middle-aged critics, but the financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.

All the figures show that film-makers and publishers go for the safe option. You go for the safest bottom line and as long as Dahl is selling a lot of books you can't go wrong.

All the figures show that film-makers and publishers go for the safe option,'' says Peter Hunt, children's literature professor at Cardiff University.

No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

I am my brain's publisher.

I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers.

The Internet will make every enterprise a publisher.

Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything.

Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do it.

Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.