Coincidentally, that's exactly where I stopped watching the show! Marvelous!
Not particularly.
Or, if you do, just the first 2.5 seasons.
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Not particularly.
Or, if you do, just the first 2.5 seasons.
So I'm guessing the events of Enemy at the Gate will not feature in your story?
I guess thanks to you now I actually have to give SG:A another chance, huh?
Not particularly.
Or, if you do, just the first 2.5 seasons.
So I'm guessing the events of Enemy at the Gate will not feature in your story?
Not looking like it, no.
If no one else has said this, I'd like to say that someone is going to get a great editor wherever Marco goes.
Does anyone else find it disgusting that the executives fire the middle people because they can't afford to keep them on but they keep giving themselves raises? Do you see anything wrong with this picture?
Also, I don't think it's just editors that they are letting go as they are probably also getting rid of high priced writers like Stephen King or even getting rid of some projects to cut costs.
Also, I don't think it's just editors that they are letting go as they are probably also getting rid of high priced writers like Stephen King or even getting rid of some projects to cut costs.
Yes I do which is why I yelped for joy when Stewart Rose who is the head honcho at Marks and Spencers said that he would not be accepting a massive end of year bonus just a day after the company announced the loss of 1200 jobs across the country as hopefully he didn't see it as very sporting.
You're only as good as your last book. If Stephen King is still hot and he's suddenly without a publisher and a new three-book deal, there'll always be someone else to take him on.
If Pocket is getting rid of Stephen King, then it's shooting itself in the foot. They're going to need popular authors like King to survive as a business (and to help support the publication of lesser-known authors).
Just like movie studios need their big summer blockbusters, publishers need their Stephen Kings and J.K. Rowlings.
However, I've read that various publishers are thinking about cutting the size of authors' advances and replacing them with larger royalties. Which I don't think would be good for authors, since royalties come much later and are unpredictable in their amount (since they depend on sales volume).
It depends how much of a drop there is, and whether they streamline the royalties process. I'd suspect if things go that way, there'll be smaller initial print runs also, as they won't want returns, but can always print more if the demand is there.
There's also the issue that sometimes too big an advance is bad for the author: There are quite a few people out there who got a six figure advance with a first book, which then earned four or five figures, and the author got dropped like a stone. But if they'd had the five figure advance they'd have a regular gig...
Yeah, I read that publishers were thinking about ending the book-return program, which is an idea I kinda like, because I loathe the idea of unsold books being returned and destroyed rather than warehoused. But apparently the policy of letting bookstores return unsold stock was introduced in the Great Depression to increase sales, since struggling book vendors might've been less willing to order a lot of copies of a book in the first place if they didn't have the option of returning unsold copies and getting their money back. So in the current economy, ending returns might make bookstores less willing to carry the merchandise, and that would be worse for the publishers and authors.
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Hoping my 4.5 years counts for something, I'll offer another snippet...
A friend of mine was launching a new line of independent comics, which they'd hoped to sell regularly in Australian newsstands. The general rule of thumb, to sell a comic or magazine, he was told, was that you need five copies in the stack in order to sell one. Marketing studies have shown that people will rarely take the often-fondled front copy to buy, and just one lone issue gets lost and unnoticed on a rack, even if the shop only thinks they'd sell one copy in that month.
So that concept of returns (for magazines and comics, at least) is based on people seeing a group of something and thus being inspired to buy one.
This was something I did with out realising before it got pointed out to me than when I buy my newspaper I will get the second or third from the pile and if there is only one left, I'll leave it!
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