Publishing Quotations | Page 4

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

After four years of successful collaboration, both parties feel strongly that the time is right for Wiley to acquire the remaining shares. This is an important step in our ambitious plans to grow Wiley's presence in India. The acquisition enables us to increase our investment in Indian publishing and to extend our sales and marketing reach for all Wiley products in this important and rapidly growing market.

A friend of mine suddenly announced she had written a novel and got a publishing deal; I thought, 'Hang on... if she can do it, I can bloody well do it, too.' That novel went to a bidding war, and went on to be a huge best-seller.

It's possible there are no two books in publishing history more dissimilar than 'Human Traces' and 'Devil May Care.' And that was really the attraction of it.

The demands of publishing and marketing a book today have grown to exceed the ability of a publisher to cope. I felt very keenly that we were leaving so many good marketing ideas unexplored because there were too many authors and too little time.

We moved from a CD-ROM publishing company into a pure-Internet entertainment company. We are much more successful on the Internet side than we ever were on the CD-ROM side.

What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our collective memory.

The problem all these magazines have is that they get lost in the middle. If you're really spiritual and religious, you want the full dose. If not, you want the other extreme. Trying to have the middle road has never worked in the magazine publishing business.

The publishing of the political cartoons may be outweighed by the scope and intensity of the harm such an action could lead to.

The publishing industry stopped having new ideas out of respect for the untimely death of Ernest Hemingway in 1961 and has been doing everything the same way ever since.