#publishers

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

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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

We believed in the existence in this country of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price and staked everything on it. ↗

— Allen Lane

#publishers #intelligence

Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#book #came #diaries #fact #george

Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#free #publishers #sales #see #threatening

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#away #awful #direction #door #editors

When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into. ↗

— Terri Windling

#bit #business #called #fantasy #fiction

Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#day #every #every day #fairly #inspired

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

— Christopher Hitchens

#even #i #like #much #publishers