Comments on: Losing the backlist http://www.dystel.com/blog/2009/02/losing-the-backlist/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: Anonymous http://www.dystel.com/blog/2009/02/losing-the-backlist/comment-page-1/#comment-14838 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:03:16 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2009/02/losing-the-backlist/#comment-14838 童裝批發

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]]> By: green_knight http://www.dystel.com/blog/2009/02/losing-the-backlist/comment-page-1/#comment-14468 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:18:00 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2009/02/losing-the-backlist/#comment-14468 I’m surprised you didn’t get the memo – from now on, only the bestsellers will be published.

What started as a joke seems to become reality. I think the biggest mistake in this is that the bestsellers are books that are sold to a great degree to _people who do not read much_. They’re people who buy books a couple of times a year – as presents, and to read during the holidays, and maybe when all their friends talk about them. They’re not the people who will somehow acquire books whatever their bank balance, because they can’t help it – and I would guess that while bestsellers make momentary profit (then again, big advances and large marketing campaigns take some out of that again), the market isn’t growable. The target audience will buy about the same number of books each year, and it’s not a big number.

The rest of us are already looking towards other channels – word of mouth, online stores, and to a degree, e-books – to get our reading fix. The more restricted the offerings from big publishers – mainstream characters, mainstream plots, mainstream appeal – the more those books will blend in with the many others just like it, and I might as well pick up something similar at a used book store, if I want that kind of reading experience.

]]> By: Dystel & Goderich Literary Management http://www.dystel.com/blog/2009/02/losing-the-backlist/comment-page-1/#comment-20059 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:57:00 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2009/02/losing-the-backlist/#comment-20059 Ha! We like your spirit, Anonymous. But you missed the point of the post. The trouble is the publishers are being short-sighted as to what sorts of projects they’re signing on. For those unsure of what backlist is, it’s a term that refers to titles intended to sell consistently over several years rather than “frontlist” which consists of books that get that great big wave of initial publicity and are supposed to have their most productive lives up front. Something like WHAT TO EXPECT WHILE YOU’RE EXPECTING is the ultimate backlist book…a perennial, ever-renewing market that will always need the book so it will keep selling over time instead of having an initial burst and then trickling off.

As for having books that publishers are buying, market be damned, we’re doing just fine!

]]> By: Dystel & Goderich Literary Management http://www.dystel.com/blog/2009/02/losing-the-backlist/comment-page-1/#comment-20004 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:57:00 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2009/02/losing-the-backlist/#comment-20004 Ha! We like your spirit, Anonymous. But you missed the point of the post. The trouble is the publishers are being short-sighted as to what sorts of projects they’re signing on. For those unsure of what backlist is, it’s a term that refers to titles intended to sell consistently over several years rather than “frontlist” which consists of books that get that great big wave of initial publicity and are supposed to have their most productive lives up front. Something like WHAT TO EXPECT WHILE YOU’RE EXPECTING is the ultimate backlist book…a perennial, ever-renewing market that will always need the book so it will keep selling over time instead of having an initial burst and then trickling off.

As for having books that publishers are buying, market be damned, we’re doing just fine!

]]> By: Dystel & Goderich Literary Management http://www.dystel.com/blog/2009/02/losing-the-backlist/comment-page-1/#comment-14466 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:57:00 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2009/02/losing-the-backlist/#comment-14466 Ha! We like your spirit, Anonymous. But you missed the point of the post. The trouble is the publishers are being short-sighted as to what sorts of projects they’re signing on. For those unsure of what backlist is, it’s a term that refers to titles intended to sell consistently over several years rather than “frontlist” which consists of books that get that great big wave of initial publicity and are supposed to have their most productive lives up front. Something like WHAT TO EXPECT WHILE YOU’RE EXPECTING is the ultimate backlist book…a perennial, ever-renewing market that will always need the book so it will keep selling over time instead of having an initial burst and then trickling off.

As for having books that publishers are buying, market be damned, we’re doing just fine!

]]> By: Kanani http://www.dystel.com/blog/2009/02/losing-the-backlist/comment-page-1/#comment-14464 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:54:00 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2009/02/losing-the-backlist/#comment-14464 They’ll remember when their credit cards start rolling in at 27% interest, gasoline goes back up to $4.00/ gallon, the banks continue to refuse to make loans and they start running short of funds with which to pay their electrical bills.

]]> By: Kristin Laughtin http://www.dystel.com/blog/2009/02/losing-the-backlist/comment-page-1/#comment-14460 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:49:00 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2009/02/losing-the-backlist/#comment-14460 Everyone wants that one book that will stand out–but it seems no one wants the books that will provide a foundation for that one book to stand out against.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.dystel.com/blog/2009/02/losing-the-backlist/comment-page-1/#comment-14459 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:52:00 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2009/02/losing-the-backlist/#comment-14459 Whine whine whine. Just get a quality book to show them and stop your whining. Crybaby!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.dystel.com/blog/2009/02/losing-the-backlist/comment-page-1/#comment-14458 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:25:00 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2009/02/losing-the-backlist/#comment-14458 I’d also like to understand what Backlist refers to— I’m getting the sense that you are referring to good books that would have sold six months ago– but not now because it isn’t a WOW significant deal book. (Something Bill Clegg would sell :) )
And are you speaking of fiction or non-fic? I assume proposal means non-fic but is this happening with fiction, too?

Thanks. Love your blog.

]]> By: inherwritemind1 http://www.dystel.com/blog/2009/02/losing-the-backlist/comment-page-1/#comment-14457 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:35:00 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2009/02/losing-the-backlist/#comment-14457 Backlist, according to Webster online: a list of books kept in print as distinguished from books newly published.

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