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Digital-Original just shifts the R&D costs for publishing to the authors and affords us the chance to write the stories we want to write and the stories our patrons want to read. Michael A. Stackpole

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Writers keep writing and publishers publishing - it never grows boring. Michael Dirda

Writing Boring Writers Never Keep Publishers Grows Publishing

About once a decade, it becomes necessary to remind Americans again that Ulysses S. Grant was a great man, indeed a giant figure. The usual way to try to do this is by publishing a thumping big biography, and let me say that there is nothing wrong with this, although it still hasn't worked. Michael Korda

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I came into book publishing without any particular impulse to be in book publishing. Michael Korda

Book Particular Without Came Any Impulse Publishing

Given the current state of publishing, I think it helps to have a brand name on the cover of your book. Comedians are proven commodities with built-in audiences. They may not have the writing chops of a Dave Eggers, but they're salacious and funny and self-reflective. Michael Showalter

One of the anomalies of digital journalism is a lack of clarity between high and low. That's the historic distinction in publishing, mass from class, the vulgar from the refined, tabloid from broadsheet, the penny press from papers costing a nickel. Michael Wolff

How advertising is handled has always been a key distinction between low and high order publishing. The higher you stood, the more separate you were from advertising, and, in the logic of snobbery, the greater a premium price the top brands would pay to be in your company. Michael Wolff

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Don't sell your publishing. Michelle Phillips

Sell Your Publishing

I got offered publishing deals to write country music, but it was not what I wanted to do. Natalie Prass

Music Country Write Country Music Deals Got Offered Wanted Publishing

I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with publishing books. It can be totally separate and private - a comforting thought. Nell Freudenberger

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Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars. Nicholas Sparks

Art Business Writing Down Said Dollars Done May Publishing

The original idea of blog publishing was that writer and reader would be on the same level. That it would be a conversation - not a lecture. People lost sight of that. We didn't. Kinja is designed to break down the walls of the ghettos. So that everybody - editor, writer, source, subject, expert, fan - can be a contributor. Nick Denton

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E-books present the greatest opportunity readers have ever had to find each other. It's a chance for stories written for paper to find new life and a chance for new stories to appear, freed from the constraints of paper publishing. Nick Earls

In publishing 'JFK: Reckless Youth' almost twenty years ago, I had gotten into trouble myself with the Kennedys. Not because of my portrait of JFK - which was highly laudatory - but because I had described his parents, Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, in less-than-flattering terms. Nigel Hamilton

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Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street. Patrick M. Byrne

I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels. Patrick White

Me Writing Unkindness Bad Would No-One Nobody Continue Did Just Which Produce Fortunately Novels Publishing Early Plays

Commerce is abusive. It's very hobbling to always be saying, 'Please let me put this out, this thing I've worked on for years.' It's like a nasty parent saying, 'No! Now go to your room.' As publishing companies got bigger, you felt even less significant. Patti Davis

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The best thing anybody has ever done is to advise me against publishing a poem that shows me at less than my best, such as it is. That's the kind of advice most of us resist but really should relish. Paul Muldoon

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age. Paulo Coelho

Age Kind Jurassic Publishing

The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new business opportunities and greater efficiencies and coordination. Peter Chernin

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