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- From: nigel@ietech.demon.co.uk ("Nigel G. Backhurst")
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!ietech.demon.co.uk!nigel
- Subject: Publisher production times
- Distribution: world
- References: <1992Sep07.081951.5496@sco.COM>
- Organization: IE Technical Services Holland
- Lines: 36
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:02:01 +0000
- Message-ID: <716165107snx@ietech.demon.co.uk>
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- In article <1992Sep07.081951.5496@sco.COM> charless@sco.COM writes:
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- >
- >
- >I heard from my editor last Friday to the effect that my first
- >novel, which I was made an offer for in March this year, will not
- >now be published until March-April 1994. Aside from the obvious
- >(why does it TAKE so LONG?), this leads me to ask; is it my
- >imagination, or is the lead time on the midlist growing longer
- >for everyone? I'm not the only author I know who this has happened
- >to. It used to be twelve months from contract to publication, but
- >now it's stretching to two, two-and-a-half years.
- >
- >Does anyone have any insight on this?
- >
- >
- I have noticed the same with non-fiction books. My first took
- just under 4 months from acceptance of final manuscript to
- publication, the same for the second. The third took nearly
- 8 months and the last over a year. The delay seems to have
- increased since they brought all the typesetting, etc., in house
- to save costs.
-
- The take over of small publishing companies by the giants has
- not helped either. You no longer have the situation where one
- person is responsible for your book all the way through the
- publishing process.
-
- Nigel
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