works out an agreement with the author/ a liason among the author, publishing company, and the book’s audience/ also negotiates subsidiary rights
What is the Acquisition editor
100
all hard cover and quality paperback books you see at the bookstores and in libraries
What are Trade Books?
100
publish and sell directly to a select audience, diminishing in popularity
What are Book clubs?
100
the original developers of these dropped the idea in 2004
What are e-books?
200
turns the typewritten pages into a book
What is the Production editor
200
sold to elementary, high schools and colleges, (chosen by the professors, purchased by students)
What are Textbooks
200
e.g. Borders, now account for more than half of all trade book sales, have brought mass-marketing techniques to the book industry,
What are Chain Bookstores?
200
digitalize 10 million volumes
What is the Google Book Project?
300
decides what the book will look like, inside and out
What is the Designer
300
this market does not include books about social issues from a religious point of view are considered trade books
What are Religious books?
300
e.g. Amazon, can buy in bulk at discounts, usually only from big publishing houses
What is Online Retailing?
300
CD’s generally abridge copies because of space limitations/ mp3 eliminates that restriction
What are Audiobooks?
400
arranges for the book to be printed, usually by an outside company
What is the manufacturing Supervisor
400
defined by where they are sold. Newsstands, chain stores, drug stores, “rack-sized” generally cost less and made from cheaper paper than trade paperbacks
What are Mass Market paperbacks?
400
publishing houses with less than 10 employees, better able to specialize and alternative writings / limited distribution capabilities/ specialization and targeted marketing
What are Small Presses?
500
makes sure the book gets to bookstores and tracks inventory
What is Fulfillment
500
produced by universities, museums, and research institutions/ scholarly in nature/generally non-profit