In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?
I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.
My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the idea for the book.
The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
Paperbacks weren't considered real books in the book trade. Up till then it was just murder mysteries, potboilers, 25-cent pocket books sold in newsstands. When the New York publishers started publishing quality paperbacks, there was no place to buy them.
Console game publishing has become more like theatrical release film-making and it is very hard if you are not one of the major publishers, and even for them it is hard unless they are working with major game brands.
When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.
I bless all knowledge of love, all ways of publishing it.
Were also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.
Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.
I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.