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[msagara]

John Scalzi is at it again. His tongue-and-cheek categorization of "real world" deals, a poke at Publishers Lunch (which impressed me in large part because I confess I've read exactly 2 paragraphs of Publishers Lunch; it's eye-glazingly boring, and transmits not a lot of useful information. Well, to be fair, not a lot in the paragraphs that I managed to take in the single time I tried) seems to have caused a bit of annoyance.

http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/archives/001135.html

Scalzi says some of what I've said here, but in more concentrated form, and with his usual dollop of wit & observation.

Comments

[rilina.livejournal.com]

I actually see Pub Lunch more as a tool for publishers - a way of creating early buzz for a new title with the trade. (Publicists and agencies are much more likely to send in the announcements than actual editors.) So in that sense I could see you reading it more as a bookseller and less as a writer.

As a mktg person, I mostly read it out of curiosity to see what other presses are going to be giving major pushes in the future. And when it comes to creating buzz, exact dollar amounts matter less than the general category.