Publishing Industry
topic on 7 shows · 8 statements across 8 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
the Pitch 
Innovators & Investors 
the Knowledge Project 
My First Million 
How I Built This 
the a16z Podcast
8 statements about Publishing Industry, every show
Puri: Publishers require 250-page books so buyers perceive physical value
“A 300 page book needed to be 300 pages is really a relic of the publishing industry. So like, if you go talk to publishers, and I've done this, and you want to publish a thinner book, they're like, ooh, but it's not going to sell as well. And they're like, bec…”
Niv: 10M titles go unpublished yearly due to cost and inefficiency
“So I believe there are about ten million titles that are not being published every year because of the process being so expensive, so inefficient”
Manus: Number one books in publishing are always faith-based
“And the number one books are always faith-based books.”
Parrish: Selling one million copies ranks a book in the top 0.001%
“A million puts you in like the top, 0.001% of all books ever published.”
Godin: Most authors chase status and defer too much to risk-averse editors
“The authors of most books are looking for many of the magical elements of status that come from successfully being published. They pay attention to the bestseller list. They game it. They pay attention to reviews. They worry about what their friends think of t…”
Melanie Perkins: No publishing market leader has ever survived an era transition
“And what you'll see, dear investor, is that no industry player has actually ever been able to go from one industry to the next and actually still maintain being the market leader. And so every single time there was a new era, a new market leader emerged.”
Dixon: The publishing industry will end up stronger than ever
“I think the publishing industry, once it, it's going through this kind of you know, turmoil now, will end up being stronger than ever”