I'm curious -- when you pull out the full promotional press -- tours, etc., etc. -- is this for fiction or non-ficiton? I'm assuming that in either case, the 5-7K first printing is either trade paperback or hardcover, but will happily take correction.
Marketing is one part of the business I've had almost no contact with; I do see publicity people in the store from time to time with authors, and there's almost always some contact because of that.
Actually one of my favourite people in the industry was the VP of one of the Canadian distribution companies. He was slightly surprised at how low on the totem pole my knowledge was, and it was he who pointed out that the person who actually held the title "publisher" for various lines did, in his opinion, make a difference to the line; it wasn't a convenience or a figure-head title. I did try to pay attention to more of that, but that's still harder for me because I tend to be very focused on things that reflect the genre I write in <rueful g>.
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Date: 2004-08-02 08:37 pm (UTC)Marketing is one part of the business I've had almost no contact with; I do see publicity people in the store from time to time with authors, and there's almost always some contact because of that.
Actually one of my favourite people in the industry was the VP of one of the Canadian distribution companies. He was slightly surprised at how low on the totem pole my knowledge was, and it was he who pointed out that the person who actually held the title "publisher" for various lines did, in his opinion, make a difference to the line; it wasn't a convenience or a figure-head title. I did try to pay attention to more of that, but that's still harder for me because I tend to be very focused on things that reflect the genre I write in <rueful g>.