Advertising Quote by Olivia Goldsmith

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems…

— Thomas Wolfe

The current publishing scene is extremely good for the big, popular books. They sell them brilliantly, market them and all that. It is not…

— Doris Lessing

[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell…

— W. P. Kinsella

I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about their work.…

— Jonathan Lethem

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

Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor…

— Katherine Paterson

Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.

— Alexander Theroux

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

I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I…

— Gabrielle Zevin

The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.

— Ben Katchor

What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the style.

— Russell Smith

I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so only if…

— Richard Curtis