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March 18, 2011 02:00 am GMT
I love book publishing. It's my favourite industry in the world, staffed by some of my favourite people and producing content that, more than in any other medium, is capable of changing the world. Being a published author, in a respected publishing house, is the sine qua non of success as a writer.And yet - there's one aspect of publishing that is just plain infuriating. And that's the lead times.Just over a year ago, I wrote the final sentence of my newest book. Since then, the manuscript has been through round after round of edits, libel reading, further edits, typesetting, proof reading, cover designing, pre-sales and more -- and it's still just shy of two months away from publication. By comparison, I started writing this blog post about thirty seconds ago and it'll be posted in another minute or two, typos and all.Generally, the only real price of publishing's monstrous lead times is boredom, and a dash of frustration: a price well worth paying. Every so often, though, in the time between writing and publication, circumstances will change and bite you in the ass. Which is exactly what just happened to me. And it wasn't even one of my own books.
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I love book publishing. It's my favourite industry in the world, staffed by some of my favourite people and producing content that, more than in any other medium, is capable of changing the world. Being a published author, in a respected publishing house, is the sine qua non of success as a writer.And yet - there's one aspect of publishing that is just plain infuriating. And that's the lead times.Just over a year ago, I wrote the final sentence of my newest book. Since then, the manuscript has been through round after round of edits, libel reading, further edits, typesetting, proof reading, cover designing, pre-sales and more -- and it's still just shy of two months away from publication. By comparison, I started writing this blog post about thirty seconds ago and it'll be posted in another minute or two, typos and all.Generally, the only real price of publishing's monstrous lead times is boredom, and a dash of frustration: a price well worth paying. Every so often, though, in the time between writing and publication, circumstances will change and bite you in the ass. Which is exactly what just happened to me. And it wasn't even one of my own books.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/kleXpX4jxVg/
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