Guide to modern publishing terms

[fjtorres]

From the NYT online:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com...-authors/?_r=0

For traditionalists, a quick recap of modern terms and roles in contemporary publishing.
More at the source.

Your Agent: Acts as Book’s Editor.

Your Editor: Acts as Book’s Publisher, handling how it will be packaged and marketed.

Your Publisher: Creates Book’s mold ahead of time, insofar as it curates the existing market into which book must fit. (Additional duty: being dumbfounded by that market.) Has an influence present at Book’s inception and steers project with implicit requirements, meticulously directing without directly touching, like the people with the brooms in curling. And, by working backward from the numbers and trends and making Book a function of the bottom line, ultimately has final word on content — in other words, acts as Book’s Author.

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