The Future Of Electronic Book Publishing Is Now
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011 at
11:11 am
Print books vs. digital books. The fight has moved beyond boring to annoying. It’s time these two sides came together to further themselves instead of remaining divided. It’s only good business sense.
I’m not going to list all the magazine articles, the blog posts nor the multitudes of online chats, etc. concerning the current situation (some would call it a fight) over print books vs. digital books. It would be repetitive and boring. If you know about this situation (fight) already, then you’ll know what I’m talking about. If you don’t know, read on.
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How do I break into the publishing industry?
I would love to work as a book editor and possibly one day become a literary agent. I currently work as a news producer. Any thoughts on how this experience could help me land a job in the publishing industry?
Should Americans rely on the media and news in their understanding to Islam and the Middle East?
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When a Muslim American person commits an average, everyday crime that non-Muslim Americans commit constantly like theft or domestic violence the reports come out with the person being identified as Muslim. This is very common with race as much as it with religion, where a person that commits a crime will be identified as black or Hispanic, but if the criminal is white then the media will just say “a man/women robbed a bank today”. Really unless a non-Muslim person is clergy then no one would ever know their religion while being portrayed in the news.
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Another interesting thing to be noticed Most of Media is controlled by Jews.
People have their head in the sand if they do not believe that Jews own the media and most major outlets that distribute information to the masses.
Christopher
“I glanced at the Kennedy assassination site and found this; it fits into our discussion of Hollywood stereotypes and the slavish behavior of the US press after the 9/11 tragedy and in the run up to the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan.
“”Today, seven Jewish Americans run the vast majority of US television networks, the printed press, the Hollywood movie industry, the book publishing industry, and the recording industry. Most of these industries are bundled into huge media conglomerates run by the following seven individuals:
Gerald Levin, CEO and Director of AOL Time Warner
Michael Eisner, Chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Company
Edgar Bronfman, Sr., Chairman of Seagram Company Ltd
Edgar Bronfman, Jr, President and CEO of Seagram Company Ltd and head of Universal Studios
Sumner Redstone, Chairman and CEO of Viacom, Inc
Dennis Dammerman, Vice Chairman of General Electric
Peter Chernin, President and Co-COO of News Corporation Limited
Those seven Jewish men collectively control ABC, NBC, CBS, the Turner Broadcasting System, CNN, MTV, Universal Studios, MCA Records, Geffen Records, DGC Records, GRP Records, Rising Tide Records, Curb/Universal Records, and Interscope Records.
Most of the larger independent newspapers are owned by Jewish interests as well. An example is media mogul is Samuel I. “Si” Newhouse, who owns two dozen daily newspapers from Staten Island to Oregon, plus the Sunday supplement Parade; the Conde Nast collection of magazines, including Vogue, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Allure, GQ, and Self; the publishing firms of Random House, Knopf, Crown, and Ballantine, among other imprints; and cable franchises with over one million subscribers”
http://www.rense.com/general44/sevenjewishamericans.htm
I’m just reading Michael Korda’s book about that very thing.
If you’re presently in the news business, you might be able to edge on over into the publishing business by taking on the book reviews for whatever media you represent. And as far as being a literary agent, you can set yourself up today as an agent. But the hard part is getting to know editors and getting them to look at the manuscripts you will be submitting. Do you do any copy editing in your present job? If so, that could be a good ‘in’ into the publishing industry. At one time, publishers would farm out their slush piles to readers who were not on staff, but who had some literary qualifications. You might still be able to do that, although you would be paid peanuts, if anything at all.
You are probably one in a million – everyone else wants to know how to publish their book (in fact, there are a lot of entries on this site along the lines of “I want to write a book. What should I write about?” or “Can you give me a story line”:- sheesh! So your query is very refreshing.
If you do get into the publishing industry, let me know. I’ve got several manuscripts =)
1 in 4 Don’t Read Books – Who Are They? Could It Be Cons?
WASHINGTON – Liberals read more books than conservatives. The head of the book publishing industry’s trade group says she knows why — and there’s little flattering about conservative readers in her explanation.
“The Karl Roves of the world have built a generation that just wants a couple slogans: ‘No, don’t raise my taxes, no new taxes,'” Pat Schroeder, president of the American Association of Publishers, said in a recent interview. “It’s pretty hard to write a book saying, ‘No new taxes, no new taxes, no new taxes’ on every page.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070822/ap_on_re_us/political_reading_habits;_ylt=AvtgA9BB1l.SG79i9115wUSs0NUE
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Time and time again I see slogan posts or slogan answers to very complex questions. The author of the story should have also included the “one size fits all” mentality of Conservatives.
Comments
Peace
Jim
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Books I have read in the last 6 months:
Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sandburg
Jefferson’s Great Gamble by Charles A Cerami
Hatred’s Kingdom by Dore Gold
Emergency Navigation by David Burch
Bayesian Statistics, principles, models, and applications, by S. James Press
And numerous trade journals.
How about you?
1 Why do you care?
#2 Where is your proof they are all Jews?
#3 Even if they WERE Jews, not a single one is an Orthodox Jew.
All programming on those stations having to do with Israel always sides with the Arabs and other antisemites, against Israel.
So much for “the Jews”, controlling everything.
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>
Salam Americans should investigate themselves for fact finding on the site and collect all information from the 2 or more parties who have been involved and they do not believe just only on the media and news.They should collect the needed information from the middle east persons such as Turkey,Jordania,Libanon,Syria,etc and also from non muslim countries.
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.
How could 7 Jews control most of American media?
Today, seven Jewish Americans run the vast majority of US television networks, the printed press, the Hollywood movie industry, the book publishing industry, and the recording industry. Most of these industries are bundled into huge media conglomerates run by the following seven individuals:
Gerald Levin, CEO and Director of AOL Time Warner
Michael Eisner, Chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Company
Edgar Bronfman, Sr., Chairman of Seagram Company Ltd
Edgar Bronfman, Jr, President and CEO of Seagram Company Ltd and head of Universal Studios
Sumner Redstone, Chairman and CEO of Viacom, Inc
Dennis Dammerman, Vice Chairman of General Electric
Peter Chernin, President and Co-COO of News Corporation Limited
Those seven Jewish men collectively control ABC, NBC, CBS, the Turner Broadcasting System, CNN, MTV, Universal Studios, MCA Records, Geffen Records, DGC Records, GRP Records, Rising Tide Records, Curb/Universal Records, and Interscope Records.