This is a great 1948 movie on the process of putting a book together. It makes you appreciate the word overhead as viewed through the eyes of a publisher. The number of people it takes to set up, print, collate and finally tie it up into a book is impressive. Add to this the cost of the machines, paper, ink, utilities and you wonder how anyone in the publishing industry earned a profit back then.
Question of the day.
I saw a man today who mimicked the opposite of what I did.
“Who are you trying to kid?" I asked, "how is that possible—how can this be? If I move to the right do you wriggle a knee?”
“Nothing as difficult as that,” he assured with glee. “I’d simply move to the left—now do you see?”
With my eyes fixed firmly on his face, I accepted his challenge and quickened my pace—for it was the middle of the night. I walked to the left—he disappeared from sight.
Who did I meet?
Two excellent articles by Randy Ingermanson* on self publishing.
Why James Scott Bell Chose to E-Publish
Is There A Price For Self-Publishing?
*Award-winning novelist Randy Ingermanson, "the
Snowflake Guy," publishes the Advanced Fiction Writing
Ezine, with more than 24,000 readers, every month. If
you want to learn the craft and marketing of fiction,
AND make your writing more valuable to editors, AND
have FUN doing it, visit http://http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/
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