Publishing Companies In New York
Three Rules Of Publishing
Author: Jerry D. Simmons
The business of publishing is old world, mature, and has changed only incrementally over the past fifty years. One thing that can be said about publishing is that the biggest companies lead and the rest tend to follow. This is why little has changed in the way these publishers conduct business. The biggest are the most stodgy and the result is an industry that continues to shrink, while technology and the new marketing of the 21st century speed ahead.
Book are published, marketed, sold and distributed the same way they have been since the birth of the business. Certainly prices have changed dramatically, shipments are better coordinated, cover designs have evolved, merchandising has improved, but the basic business rules have not. Today there are still three general rules that apply to the business of publishing.
Rule number one: Every book is guaranteed to the bookseller, meaning, if they don’t sell at the bookstore, the publisher guarantees they’ll take them back. Returned books are as common place as paper and ink. Books have always been returnable. There are few if any retailers still in existence that will purchase newly published non-returnable books. The fallacy of this is that today, 2008, there are still some publishers that force their authors to pay several hundred dollars for the right to have their book considered returnable. Returnable books should be standard for any book contract. This is a clear example of how some publishers are not fluent in the ways of the business, and as a result they take advantage and prey on the pocketbooks of unsuspecting, and uninformed authors.
Rule number two: The business is about revenue, selling books. However there are two ways to look at revenue. For the Independent publishers and authors, revenue is when a book is sold and the money changes hands, that is a sale and represents the cleanest form of revenue. For the biggest publishers and all the others that want to compete in the marketplace, revenue is both gross and net. Gross is the number of copies multiplied by the cover price. This does not account for the returns that will eventually arrive at the publisher’s warehouse. The net price is what is left after all those books have been returned and counted. The big companies play with these numbers in a variety of ways and if you plan to compete in this market, you must be aware of this fact.
Rule number three: Bookseller real estate is for lease. When you walk into a bookstore and notice all those wonderful displays with multiple copies of the bestsellers, then you stroll down the aisles and look at the covers laying face up on the tables, keep in mind — this is not accidental. These retailers aren’t doing any favors. All of that space has been leased by the publisher of those titles for a specified period of time. In fact, virtually all of the floor space is for lease, if you can afford the price. Typically the front of the store is the most expensive real estate and the price goes down slightly as you move to the back of the store. Bottom line, retail space in major retailers, including bookstores and mass merchants, is for lease.
If you want to compete in the traditional marketplace, you must keep these three rules in mind: It’s how the business operates.
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About the Author
Jerry D. Simmons is the author of WHAT WRITERS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT PUBLISHING. He is the creator of TIPS for WRITING from the PUBLISHING INSIDER an eNewsletter that can be found at WritersReaders.com. He is also the founder of the leading social networking website for writers, authors and readers Nothing Binding. For comments or questions you can reach Jerry via email jerry@writersreaders.com.
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There are many publishers in NYC. However, they are the major ones and cannot be contacted directly by authors. They do not accept unsolicited queries. They deal only with major agents. Anything an author sent them without being asked for it would go to their slush room and them be just destroyed.
Indies are spread all over the country. Not really in NYC. But today with internet e mail, fax, conference calls and Fed Ex, it doesn’t really matter if you live close to your publisher.
I would suggest you get a copy of Writers Market and search for smaller publishers who are seeking work in your genre. Or go to the library and use Literary Marketplace – the author’s Bible.
Just remember to check all publishers out through the standard Writers Beware channels before you send anything and follow all submission guidelines to the letter. Pax-C
Independent of what?
You can always check Writer’s Market for publishers large and small who seek works in your genre, and learn whether they require agents as middlemen or deal directly with authors.
Since New York is the center of the publishing business in the US, nearly all of whatever kind of publisher you seek will be located there.
I would suggest you get a copy of the Writer’s Market. Thing is that most of the big print houses have either their headquarters or largest branch offices in New York City. Some examples:
Penguin Group
Simon and Schuster
MacMillan/St. Martin’s Press
Kensington Books
This is a vague question. Are you looking for small presses or self-publishing companies? New York is the publishing capital in the USA, so you shouldn’t have a problem finding many publishers that are located there. It also depends on what kind of novel you’re trying to get published; many publishers do not publish every genre and some are specialized.
http://www.everywritersresource.com/bookpublishingcompanies.html
Alfred Smith Barnes
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For other persons named Alfred Barnes, see Alfred Barnes (disambiguation).
Alred Smith Barnes (born January 28, 1817 in New Haven, Connecticut; died February 17, 1888 in Brooklyn, New York) was an American publisher.
[edit] Publishing Company
He founded the A.S. Barnes publishing company when he was 16, and it soon became the leading publisher of textbooks in the United States. In the 1950s, they became the major publisher of sports reference books, with groundbreaking books such as The Baseball Encyclopedia by Hy Turkin and S.C. Thompson and Roger Treat’s Football Encyclopedia. Both titles represented the first entry in the genre for their respective sports.
In addition to its prominence in the fields of textbook and sports publishing, A. S. Barnes & Co. was a major general publisher of titles on an enormous range of subjects.
Barnes managed his company until his retirement in 1880. The company continued to publish until 1982.
[N.B.: Bibliographic entries sometimes cite this publisher as “Barnes”, omitting the initials “A. S.”]
[edit] Philanthropy
Barnes was a major benefactor of Cornell University and one of the chief proponents of building an elevated railroad in New York City
[edit] External links
Entry at FamousAmericans.net
Article on Major American Publishers
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=A.%20S.%20Barnes%20and%20Co.
You (or your publishing house) would have to find a distributor in the UK. Your publisher would have to agree to share the rights to have the book produced in other countries.
No phone listed but their address is:
Pridemore Publishing Company, Incorporated
101 W. 23rd Street, #2250, New York, NY 10011
do NOT deal with these people!!!!! They operate an envelope stuffing SCAM. You are guarenteed to lose your money. Just google them to find ton of complaints
What is your question? About the times giving secrets…yes it was wrong, it was stupid, maybe even bordering on treason.
What is the rest of your crap here, who cares about the history of the papers and how does it relate>
If she is serious about writing she should want it perfect before she even considers submitting it for publication. Publishing is a nasty business and not for the faint of heart.
check out
http://www.writersdigest.com
Only the students really know for sure. http://www.onlinehighschoolreviews.com/New-York-High-Schools.html
Do you believe the New York Times was wrong for making our security measures news?
Three Jewish Newspapers
The suppression of competition and the establishment of local monopolies on the dissemination of news and opinion have characterized the rise of Jewish control over America’s newspapers. The resulting ability of the Jews to use the press as an unopposed instrument of Jewish policy could hardly be better illustrated than by the examples of the nation’s three most prestigious and influential newspapers: the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. These three, dominating America’s financial and political capitals, are the newspapers that set the trends and the guidelines for nearly all the others. They are the ones that decide what is news and what isn’t, at the national and international levels. They originate the news; the others merely copy it. And all three newspapers are in Jewish hands.
The New York Times, with a September 1999 circulation of 1,086,000, is the unofficial social, fashion, entertainment, political, and cultural guide of the nation. It tells America’s “smart set” which books to buy and which films to see; which opinions are in style at the moment; which politicians, educators, spiritual leaders, artists, and businessmen are the real comers. And for a few decades in the 19th century it was a genuinely American newspaper.
The New York Times was founded in 1851 by two Gentiles, Henry J. Raymond and George Jones. After their deaths, it was purchased in 1896 from Jones’s estate by a wealthy Jewish publisher, Adolph Ochs. His great-great-grandson, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., is the paper’s current publisher and the chairman of the New York Times Co. The executive editor is Joseph Lelyveld, also a Jew (he is a rabbi’s son).
The Sulzberger family also owns, through the New York Times Co., 33 other newspapers, including the Boston Globe, purchased in June 1993 for $1.1 billion; twelve magazines, including McCall’s and Family Circle with circulations of more than 5 million each; seven radio and TV broadcasting stations; a cable-TV system; and three book publishing companies. The New York Times News Service transmits news stories, features, and photographs from the New York Times by wire to 506 other newspapers, news agencies, and magazines.
Of similar national importance is the Washington Post, which, by establishing its “leaks” throughout government agencies in Washington, has an inside track on news involving the Federal government.
The Washington Post, like the New York Times, had a non-Jewish origin. It was established in 1877 by Stilson Hutchins, purchased from him in 1905 by John R. McLean, and later inherited by Edward B. McLean. In June 1933, however, at the height of the Great Depression, the newspaper was forced into bankruptcy. It was purchased at a bankruptcy auction by Eugene Meyer, a Jewish financier and former partner of the infamous Bernard Baruch, industry czar in America during the First World War.
The Washington Post is now run by Katherine Meyer Graham, Eugene Meyer’s daughter. She is the principal stockholder and the board chairman of the Washington Post Co. In 1979 she appointed her son Donald publisher of the paper. He now also holds the posts of president and CEO of the Washington Post Co. The newspaper has a daily circulation of 763,000, and its Sunday edition sells 1.1 million copies.
The Washington Post Co. has a number of other media holdings in newspapers (the Gazette Newspapers, including 11 military publications); in television (WDIV in Detroit, KPRC in Houston, WPLG in Miami, WKMG in Orlando, KSAT in San Antonio, WJXT in Jacksonville); and in magazines, most notably the nation’s number-two weekly newsmagazine, Newsweek. The Washington Post Company’s various television ventures reach a total of about 7 million homes, and its cable TV service, Cable One, has 635,000 subscribers.
In a joint venture with the New York Times, the Post publishes the International Herald Tribune, the most widely distributed English-language daily in the world.
The Wall Street Journal, which sells 1.8 million copies each weekday, is the nation’s largest-circulation daily newspaper. It is owned by Dow Jones & Company, Inc., a New York corporation that also publishes 24 other daily newspapers and the weekly financial tabloid Barron’s, among other things. The chairman and CEO of Dow Jones is Peter R. Kann, who is a Jew. Kann also holds the posts of chairman and publisher of the Wall Street Journal.
Most of New York’s other major newspapers are in no better hands than the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. In January 1993 the New York Daily News was bought from the estate of the late Jewish media mogul Robert Maxwell (born Ludvik Hoch) by Jewish real-estate developer Mortimer B. Zuckerman. The Village Voice is the personal property of Leonard Stern, the billionaire Jewish owner of the Hartz Mountain pet supply firm. And, as mentioned above, the New York Post is owned by News Corporation under the Jew Peter Chernin.
Has anyone heard of a publishing company in New York City called A.S. Barnes & Company?
I am trying to find a publishing company that was in business in 1956 called A.S. Barnes & Co. I have searched the web, yellow pages, and Library of Congress. Any other suggetions? Thank you.
I am trying to find a number for Pridemore Publishing Company in New York any suggestions to go about it?
Publishing companies in New York City?
I have searched many a time on Google and can’t find anything. Some one PLEASE give me the names of publishing companies in New York. They can be indie (preferably) and larger (also preferable). Please answer soon! Thanks =)
Book publishing
Well, I am writing a teen novel type of thing, and I can’t really get an agent.
Do smaller companies accept work from the author directly?
about the agent thing, I don’t really want to have to do that. I’m figuring it costs some $$
What are some notable book publishing companies in New York?
A decent to very successful company that takes fiction, horror, or sci fi books
Legitimate publishing companies in NY, NY?
My friend has just completed one of her own books, which she would like to publish soon. She’s 13, and is serious about writing, even it might not be perfect.
Does anyone know of any legitimate publishing companies in New York? This would be my friends first book.. so it would also be taking a risk.
Help?
If I publish with a publishing company based in New York, will the books be available in the UK?
I’m hoping to publish with HarperCollins but their website say it is headquartered in New York. Does that mean my books won’t be available in the UK shops?
My dream is to walk into a bookshop and see my book sitting on one of their shelves!
Do most publishing companies give high school students internships?
I am a high school student in New York and I am looking for an internship at a publishing company. My grades are good, but I have no resume or experience or anything that most of the companies ask for. Do I even have a chance?
What are some independent book publishing companies in New York?
How do I find independent book publishing companies in New York?