Financial risk Quote by John B. Thompson

Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.

— Margaret Atwood

Publishers are born connectors; they bring like-minded people together. They are also conversationalists of the first order. They foster the interaction between the three…

— John Battelle

Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce.

— Anonymous

Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.

— James Purdy

Publishers like their authors to take advantage of publicity opportunities.

— Lionel Shriver

Think like a publisher, not a marketer.

— David Meerman Scott

Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.

— P. D. James

“But see, publishers don’t actually know what readers want. They know what distributors want. Joe and Jane Smith? No clue. Barnes & Noble? Wal-Mart?…

— Sean Platt

Publishers are private businesspeople who must reach their economic goals independently.

— Mathias Dopfner

Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

— Willa Cather

“You know what a publisher is? He’s a failed writer whose father was rich enough that he’s able to appropriate other people’s talents.”

— Joël Dicker

Brands need to take the phrase 'acting like a publisher literally.

— Dietrich Mateschitz