"Well, when a daddy book and a mommy book love each other very much..."

There has been a lot of talk about costs in the publishing industry on Charlie Stross' blog lately, fed mostly by talk about ebooks, and Amazon's mass delisting of one publisher over a pricing disagreement. To correct some misconceptions, he has started writing a series of posts about how things work behind the scenes.

Common Misconceptions About Publishing: #1

CMAP #2: How Books Are Made

CMAP #3: What Authors sell to Publishers

Thought it might be interesting to the crowd here. I'll link future posts as well, if it is possible somehow.

magetoo wrote:"Well, when a daddy book and a mommy book love each other very much..."

There has been a lot of talk about costs in the publishing industry on Charlie Stross' blog lately, fed mostly by talk about ebooks, and Amazon's mass delisting of one publisher over a pricing disagreement. To correct some misconceptions, he has started writing a series of posts about how things work behind the scenes.

Common Misconceptions About Publishing: #1

CMAP #2: How Books Are Made

CMAP #3: What Authors sell to Publishers

Thought it might be interesting to the crowd here. I'll link future posts as well, if it is possible somehow.

Thanks!

Oops, I missed that there was a new one posted:

CMAP #4: Territories, Translations, and Foreign Rights

Another post in the series:

CMAP #5: Why books are the length they are