Navigate from the link to Readers, writers and rejection slips in Publishers WeeklyInternational news website of book publishing and bookselling including business news, reviews, bestseller lists, commentaries http://www.publishersweekly.com/' s Fair Daily to find this article by Nick Wells.
The subtle dance between publisher and author can be tricky: the author brand versus the corporate brand, a peacock show of strength that ebbs and flows as sales invigorate the display, or otherwise, writes Nick Wells. Of course, the sales come from readers, and lest we forget, our writers, published, rejected or dwelling still within the dismissively termed "Slush Pile", are readers too.
The intricacy of the dance reveals itself more intriguingly in a modern world where nearly 700,000 new books are self-published in the US, more than 480,000 of which appear on Amazon alone. And that's an increase of more than 400% in just six years. Denizens of the Slush Pile now have options rather than wait cap-in-hand for crumbs of recognition.
