#publishers

There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three. ↗

— Dan DeCarlo

#city #down #eleven #finally #five

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#books #commissioned #kind #life #margaret

The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers. ↗

— Louise Brown

#british #confident #dancing #down #dozens

Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#authors #because #being #books #change

I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so only if all traditional publishers had turned them down. ↗

— Richard Curtis

#directly #down #had #i #only

We are forced by the major publishers to include electronic rights in the contracts we make with publishers for new books. And there's very little we can do about that. ↗

— Richard Curtis

#books #contracts #electronic #forced #include

My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#agent #august #bidding #days #few

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. ↗

— John Lennon

#everybody #only #own #people #possession

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#concept #generally #more #poor #publishers

An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#authors #business #contracts #publishers #publishing