News and opinion on the changing world of book publishing
Laura Hazard Owen | October 2008
Wondering how much your publishing coworkers make, or how they take their coffee? We got tons of interesting answers in our second annual publishing industry survey, and couldn’t fit them all into our feature article in the October issue of Publishing Trends. So we’ll be posting additional results throughout this month. Stay tuned!
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Do you work at a publishing house that supplies e-readers to some or all of its employees? We’d love it if you’d take our new survey, here: Publishing Trends E-Reader Survey Thanks!
As we noted in our original article, a lot of publishing people don’t have as much time as they’d like to read for fun because they’re too busy reading for work. “The work day never ends–’so much to read’ is a blessing and a curse,” wrote one agent, while an editor described her heavy reading [...]
It’s Friday, and it’s been a hard week. If you’re going to happy hour with a publishing crowd after work today, expect lots of people to order red wine–the drink of choice for 35.8% of respondents. 16.7% prefer white. One respondent just loves “good delicious wine.” 5.3% go for vodka tonics, and 3.5% like Bud [...]
How much money do you make? It’s a personal question, but we asked it, and most respondents answered. Here’s the salary breakdown: 3.2% of respondents make less than $30,000. 24.8% make $30,000-$50,000. 13.9% make $50,000-$60,000. 7.7% make $60,000-$70,000. 8.3% make $70,000-$80,000. 11.8% make $80,000-$100,000. 14.7% make $100,000-$150,000. 8.3% make $150,000-$200,000. 7.4% make more than $250,000. [...]
I’ve posted an expanded version of Rich Kelley’s article from the October issue, “Battling the Online Tyranny of ‘More,’” on our Web site. Check it out here:http://www.publishingtrends.com/copy/08/0810/0810tyranny.html
Want to get into publishing? A lot of people say it’s all about who you know–and the results of our survey support that belief. 35.5% of respondents heard about their current job via word of mouth. 9.6% found their position on the job board of a Web site like Publishers Marketplace, and 6% were recruited. [...]
Wondering how much your publishing coworkers make, or how they take their coffee? We got tons of interesting answers in our second annual publishing industry survey, and couldn’t fit them all into our feature article in the October issue of Publishing Trends. So we’ll be posting additional results throughout this month. Stay tuned!
PT thanks New York–based marketing consultant Rich Kelley for his reporting. “What we have today is the tyranny of more,” warned Mike Linton, CMO of eBay. “More choices, more technology, more competition, more alliances, more complexity, more risk.” “The Internet is run on love,” mused Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of [...]
For Turkey, whose publishing past is inextricably linked with controversy, being the Guest of Honor at Frankfurt Book Fair is a unique opportunity. Rather than defending itself and its authors against the historically restrictive government, Frankfurt is a chance for Turkey’s literary community to present a united cultural front on the international stage. Fittingly, Nobel [...]
It’s polling season, and PT’s not exempt! This year, 385 people who work in publishing took our survey; 86.5% completed it. The largest group of respondents were literary agents (26.8%), while the majority of respondents at publishing houses work in editorial (40.6%), followed by rights (6.3%) and sales (5.7%). 10% are 22–27, 25% are 28–35, [...]
