“You can publish it in a three-ring binder and that can be more profitable. Start-up costs are much lower and can be just $20 to $100.”
Cathy Stucker
“The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We published six books in our first year, we're publishing nine this year, and we're scheduled to publish 12 in 2006,”
Charles Ardai
“To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.”
Tanith Lee
“And it is promotion. My publisher, Tor Books, have some modern methods that allow them to make a profit on as little as 3,000 copies of a hardcover novel. The traditional methods would need a print run of 50,000 paperbacks. That means Tor can afford to have tons of first novelists every year on much shorter runs. But then the marketing effort is diluted to cover all those authors. It's not possible to make a good living from being a mid-tier author, just selling in the bookshops. I need to promote myself, with all the tools I have.”
Cory Doctorow
“We're combining the best of true publishing with the benefits of digital publishing. It's not that we can replace published books with digital [versions], but we can make new channels [for new works].”
Judy Kirkpatrick
