Post by account_disabled on Dec 23, 2023 22:42:52 GMT -5
There has been a lot of talk about paid publishing , or rather it has been spoken about, and rightly so. Every now and then I come across a publishing house that, between the lines, makes it clear that the publication is not the classic one, but requires the author's participation in purchasing copies of his work. If not even the author wants to buy his book, how can you expect others to do so? That's exactly how I read it. Or you ask for money, but at that point don't call yourself a publishing house, but a printing house. What drives a new writer to publish for a fee ? I have often asked myself this and I have given myself an answer.
Actually more than one. You publish for a fee because you are in a hurry to publish This, in my opinion, is the main reason. Sending a manuscript to a publishing house involves Special Data waiting several months for a response, which may not even arrive. If the answer does not arrive, there may be various reasons: the publishing house is not interested in that story; the publishing house is not interested in that style of writing; the publishing house did not consider that novel valid; the publishing house believes that the author must learn to write; the publishing house hasn't actually read the manuscript, because it receives thousands of them; etc.
However, there are many publishing houses in Italy to which you can send your novel. And no one forbids a writer from sending his text to multiple publishing houses at the same time. That way he might not get a response from five publishers, for example, in just six months. But the new writer is in a hurry to see his novel on the bookshelves. He wants to point to that book and tell everyone " I wrote that novel!" » And so, after having invested time in writing his novel, he prefers to also invest money in having it published. And since time is money, in the end the money you spent is really a lot.
Actually more than one. You publish for a fee because you are in a hurry to publish This, in my opinion, is the main reason. Sending a manuscript to a publishing house involves Special Data waiting several months for a response, which may not even arrive. If the answer does not arrive, there may be various reasons: the publishing house is not interested in that story; the publishing house is not interested in that style of writing; the publishing house did not consider that novel valid; the publishing house believes that the author must learn to write; the publishing house hasn't actually read the manuscript, because it receives thousands of them; etc.
However, there are many publishing houses in Italy to which you can send your novel. And no one forbids a writer from sending his text to multiple publishing houses at the same time. That way he might not get a response from five publishers, for example, in just six months. But the new writer is in a hurry to see his novel on the bookshelves. He wants to point to that book and tell everyone " I wrote that novel!" » And so, after having invested time in writing his novel, he prefers to also invest money in having it published. And since time is money, in the end the money you spent is really a lot.