Comments on: Things I Worry about Seeing #1 http://www.holtuncensored.com/hu/things-i-worry-about-seeing-1/ Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:40:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: mrsdalloways http://www.holtuncensored.com/hu/things-i-worry-about-seeing-1/comment-page-1/#comment-231 mrsdalloways Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:28:30 +0000 http://www.holtuncensored.com/hu/?p=222#comment-231 I whole-heartedly second the trade paper first trend. As co-owner of Mrs. Dalloway's in Berkeley, I see how hard it is to sell first-time fiction authors in hardback. People are more willing to take a chance on a paperback. You didn't mention Europa, recently featured in the New York Times, but they publish everything in paperback, just as in Europe, and a few of their books have shot to the top of the bestseller list (Muriel Barbery's The Elegance of the Hedgehog, case in point). In this economy, it seems the only way to go. --Marion Abbott Bundy I whole-heartedly second the trade paper first trend. As co-owner of Mrs. Dalloway’s in Berkeley, I see how hard it is to sell first-time fiction authors in hardback. People are more willing to take a chance on a paperback. You didn’t mention Europa, recently featured in the New York Times, but they publish everything in paperback, just as in Europe, and a few of their books have shot to the top of the bestseller list (Muriel Barbery’s The Elegance of the Hedgehog, case in point). In this economy, it seems the only way to go.
–Marion Abbott Bundy

]]> By: oheare http://www.holtuncensored.com/hu/things-i-worry-about-seeing-1/comment-page-1/#comment-220 oheare Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:18:18 +0000 http://www.holtuncensored.com/hu/?p=222#comment-220 One thing that I find odd is that in genre fiction (mystery, say, or science fiction/fantasy), a hardcover by a new author is utterly unheard of. The author really has to be a *somebody* before the publisher will spring for anything other than a mass-market paperback. No trade paper, no hardcover, no splashy marketing, nada. One thing that I find odd is that in genre fiction (mystery, say, or science fiction/fantasy), a hardcover by a new author is utterly unheard of. The author really has to be a *somebody* before the publisher will spring for anything other than a mass-market paperback. No trade paper, no hardcover, no splashy marketing, nada.

]]> By: Tim_Coronel http://www.holtuncensored.com/hu/things-i-worry-about-seeing-1/comment-page-1/#comment-202 Tim_Coronel Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:17:37 +0000 http://www.holtuncensored.com/hu/?p=222#comment-202 Here in Australia, the trade paperback has become the preferred first-release format, for both locally-authored titles *and* for Aust editions of non-Aust authors. Hardbacks are comparatively rare -- less than 10% of fiction releases last year had a hardback. Tim Coronel http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au Here in Australia, the trade paperback has become the preferred first-release format, for both locally-authored titles *and* for Aust editions of non-Aust authors. Hardbacks are comparatively rare — less than 10% of fiction releases last year had a hardback.

Tim Coronel
http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au

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