Describe the steps of the publishing chain. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Author creates content and supplies it to agent

Agent selects material and directs it to publisher

Publisher buys book and does range of functions

Printer delivers books to distributor, then retail

Retailers and wholesalers sell books to consumers

What does an agent do?

Selects and develops content with the goal of selling it

Represents the interests of the author

Selects content with the goal of buying it or buying a bundle of rights to the book

Takes large financial risks for books

What does a publisher do?

Selects content with the goal of buying it or buying a bundle of rights to the book and developing it for publication

Represents the interests of the author

Selects and develops content with the goal of selling it

3 Key developments in publishing

3. Emergence of transnational publishing corporations

6 Functions of publishers

1. Content acquisition and list building

2. Financial investment and risk-taking

Before the growth of the retail chains, who did bookstores cater to?

Well-educated and cultivated clientele

Nobody because they knew their market was diverse

What was the main reason bookstore chains in malls rose to popularity in the 1960s?

Middle class Americans moving to the suburbs

Barnes & Noble started in a mall, and everyone wanted to shop at Barnes & Noble

Borders started in a mall, and everyone wanted to shop at Borders

What were the consequences of the drastic transformation of the retail landscape?

Shift in the way books were stocked or sold

Created a new market for mass-market hardbacks

Decline of independent booksellers

More opportunity for authors to produce content

Barnes and Noble was first...

then a wholesale operation selling to educational institutions

Who was Johannes Gutenberg?

Sought to unify the Catholic church by printing a uniform missal for mass to be distributed to all Catholic churches in Europe

What were "search engines" before digitalization?

Gifted humans who compiled history: authors of Genesis, Ecclesiastes, Gilgamesh, for example

What are "double agents" in publishing?

Serve both the author and the publisher

More of mediator with authors and publishers

Serve only the interests of the author

What 3 factors helped increase the power of agents?

Opportunities of exploitation...

How did the role of the literary agent change?

Agents became advocates for their authors

Agents asserted control over the rights of their clients' work

Agents decided which rights to allocate to the publisher and on what terms

Agents became a necessary point of entry for the publishing industry

Agents became more like lawyers

Agents cared more about cash flow than quality

Agents only signed bestselling authors

What are the ways to sell a book? (agent to publishers)

One-on-one submission to a single editor

A multiple submission to a group of selected editors

An auction to multiple interested editors

Cursing their bloodline for 7 generations

What are the push and pull factors of corporate consolidation?

Founders of publishing houses beginning to retire

family-owned publishing businesses had difficulty operating in a financially viable way

Establish/increase a foothold in the English-language market

Why didn't synergy work?

It became clear that the synergies hoped for were not going to materialize

Growth and profitability in trade publishing was modest at best, which disillusioned large corporations

Synergy did work. This is a trick question.

Synergy didn't turn out to be as cool as everyone had hoped

What is the growth phase? Second wave of beginning in the 1980s. International (often based outside the US or UK) wanted to acquire in the US and UK to expand beyond their original fields and .

gain footholds in the English-language market

What is the growth conundrum?

How do you achieve significant growth each year in a market that is essentially static?

Do I really have to eat my vegetables to grow big and strong?

How do publishers grow their economic capital without losing quality?

How do agents sustain personal relationships with current clients while also growing their client lists?

What is the centralized model? maximize benefits by ( )

all imprints in one office, etc.

What are the vulnerabilities of small publishers?

Most are undercapitalized and experience cashflow problems

Hard to get attention for their books in the media

Dependence on 1 or 2 highly successful books

Dependence on third-party sales and distribution arrangements

3 ways publishers respond to the growth conundrum?

Reducing the number of titles they publish

Producing more guaranteed bestsellers

What are the upsides and downsides of brand name authors?

Limited contributions to the bottom line after more success

Possibility of switching publishers/agents

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A structured space of social positions which can be occupied by agents and organizations, and in which the position of any agent or organization depends on the type and quantity of resources or 'capital' they have at their disposal (p. 4) is a ____.

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MATCH QUESTION

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4 Reasons why the concept of field helps us understand publishing

... (logic of the field)

Each field of publishing has a distinctive dynamic...

...how other agents or firms may act

Calls our attention to the fact that the success of agents or publishing companies...

...is a plurality of worlds/fields

Enables us to see that publishing...

...depends on capital

Makes us think in relational terms: actions of agents and firms are oriented towards...

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DRAG AND DROP QUESTION

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The five types of capital are:
1. (a)
2. (b)
3. (c)
4. (d)
5. (e)

Economic

Human

Social

Intellectual

Symbolic

Content

Backlist

Frontlist

Bestseller

Marketing

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DRAG AND DROP QUESTION

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What is the value of a particular book based on? (2 answers)
(a)
(b)

Sales/sales potential

Quality

Author's reputation

Content

Platform

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MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

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What markets to publishers have to compete in?

Market for Agents

Market for Content

Market for Advances

Market for Customers

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Why is the Anglo-American publishing industry the dominant industry?

Most of the publishing industry takes place in Anglo-American settings, so it naturally became the standard, dominant industry.

English was established as the de facto global language, which gave Anglo-American publishers a competitive advantage

Everyone speaks English, so it makes sense for this industry to be the dominant one.

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The publishing chain is a...

Supply and value chain

Supply and demand chain

Content and production chain

Customer and retailer chain

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ENG 223 Midterm Review

A structured space of social positions which can be occupied by agents and organizations, and in which the position of any agent or organization depends on the type and quantity of resources or 'capital' they have at their disposal (p. 4) is a ____.

4 Reasons why the concept of field helps us understand publishing

The five types of capital are:
1. (a)
2. (b)
3. (c)
4. (d)
5. (e)

What is the value of a particular book based on? (2 answers)
(a)
(b)

What markets to publishers have to compete in?

Why is the Anglo-American publishing industry the dominant industry?

The publishing chain is a...

Describe the steps of the publishing chain.
1. (a)
2. (b)
3. (c)
4. (d)
5. (e)

How is the publishing chain also a value chain?
Each of the links performs a or which contributes something substantial to the overall (a) or function which contributes something (b) to the overall task of producing the (c) and delivering it to the (d)

What does an agent do?

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A structured space of social positions which can be occupied by agents and organizations, and in which the position of any agent or organization depends on the type and quantity of resources or 'capital' they have at their disposal (p. 4) is a ____.

4 Reasons why the concept of field helps us understand publishing

The five types of capital are:1. ​ ​ (a) 2. ​ (b) 3. ​ (c) 4. ​ (d) 5. ​ (e)

What is the value of a particular book based on? (2 answers)​ (a) ​ (b)

What markets to publishers have to compete in?

Why is the Anglo-American publishing industry the dominant industry?

The publishing chain is a...

Describe the steps of the publishing chain.1. ​ ​ (a) 2. ​ ​ (b) 3. ​ (c) 4. ​ (d) 5. ​ (e)

How is the publishing chain also a value chain?Each of the links performs a ​ or ​ which contributes something substantial to the overall ​ (a) or ​function which contributes something ​ (b) to the overall task of producing the ​ (c) and delivering it to the ​ (d)

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The five types of capital are:
1. (a)
2. (b)
3. (c)
4. (d)
5. (e)

What is the value of a particular book based on? (2 answers)
(a)
(b)

Describe the steps of the publishing chain.
1. (a)
2. (b)
3. (c)
4. (d)
5. (e)

How is the publishing chain also a value chain?
Each of the links performs a or which contributes something substantial to the overall (a) or function which contributes something (b) to the overall task of producing the (c) and delivering it to the (d)