On my application page I see 2 rejections a couple that say new or closed and I just checked it today and one says In Process. Does anyone know what that means? I haven’t received an email or anything yet and I don’t remember seeing this for the ones so was rejected from.

Has anyone heard back from Macmillan about the 2024 Summer Internships? I applied a while ago and haven’t heard anything. I’m assuming that I just didn’t get selected for an interview, but I was curious if anyone has heard anything.

I'm a junior working as a student intern for a university press, hoping to move abroad after college. I speak English, French, and Japanese. Does anyone have experience finding overseas jobs in publishing with a bachelors? I'm also considering freelancing as an indexer while traveling; but I'd like to retain a similar work environment, as I enjoy the community aspect of academic publishing. I'm open to any advice!

Hey all! Looking for a few opinions on the best online publishing degree programs. I am unable to attend college because of the tremendous cost of tuition and lack of aid that I get due to it looking like my parents make a substantial amount (even though they see none of it). But I don’t want to give up on my dream of working around books and literature, and had a friend tell me that there might be programs online that you can get a publishing degree through. All in all I’m just looking for a few suggestions of where the best options lay. I’ve also seen some say that they started working in warehouses for publishing houses and worked their way into publishing from there, I have considered this but am a little worried it would take a very long time. Let me know your thoughts, anything helps!

I finished writing a novel not too long ago and I’ve been submitting it to various publishers. One has made an offer to me but I expects me to pay for the typesetting to the tune of $2.75 a page. Is this normal?

Hi everyone! I'm planning to go into corporate strategy at a management consulting firm but long term want to end up working at a publishing house! Does anybody have experience with internal strategy or like acquisitions strategy?

I don't want to do pricing or marketing, and I feel like that's what gets all the attention outside of editorial. Anybody heard of things like Corp strategy? I have a data Science background

I’m just curious about something. A couple weeks ago I was invited to do a pre-interview anonymous assessment for an editorial assistant position for a big 5 publisher. The assignment was a readers report/manuscript evaluation. Literally 10 days after the due date, the imprint posted a title and cover reveal for what was clearly that manuscript. Is it generally good practice to assume for these things that they have already acquired the rights to it, so a “yes” answer is ideal?

Hi! I have my FIRST interview in publishing tomorrow and I am so excited after 100s of applications. I could use some advice, it’s a phone call interview for a Subrights position. If anyone has any advice, I’d appreciate it!

I have a paper recently accepted to an ACM journal, and I have the option to have it published Open Access with a Creative Commons license at no extra charge, although it is unclear to me which CC license I should choose. I have not heard back from my coauthors or the journal editors yet to see if any of them have any information.

My uncertainty comes from the words "remix" and "adapt". I am not sure what they mean in the context of a paper and whether I should allow this. Specifically, CC-BY 4.0 is described as follows:

This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use.

Of course, I would welcome someone translating our work to a different language or creating an audiobook of the paper. I am just concerned by the word "remix", and what exactly it permits someone to do with our work.

Hi all! Having always been literary, I have been writing and editing for years. I have edited other people’s work since middle school, and have been a tutor for 10 years, often editing my student’s papers and creative work.

How could I join the book editing world? I would love to work for a publishing house, or at very least intern somewhere. Thank you!

Hi all!

I have an interview with Penguin Random House for their fall & spring children’s marketing internship.

They said they were going to ask competency questions — does anyone have examples of what these questions would be based on your past experiences with them?

Thank you!

Interesting (if not quite depressing) piece about publishing industry:

I think I can sum up what I’ve learned like this: The Big Five publishing houses spend most of their money on book advances for big celebrities like Brittany Spears and franchise authors like James Patterson and this is the bulk of their business. They also sell a lot of Bibles, repeat best sellers like Lord of the Rings, and children’s books like The Very Hungry Caterpillar. These two market categories (celebrity books and repeat bestsellers from the backlist) make up the entirety of the publishing industry and even fund their vanity project: publishing all the rest of the books we think about when we think about book publishing (which make no money at all and typically sell less than 1,000 copies).

https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books

Hi everyone, I'm self-publishing my first book (KDP publishing) soon and there's a bookshop in the area that would like to sell my book. They sent me an email and asked about sale terms, purchase price, selling price, right of return. Being new to this world, I have no idea what to do here. I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with this and what kind of sale terms other authors usually use?

I’m interested in an assistant position in the publishing department at a major talent agency (think CAA, UTA) which is big enough for the agents to be salaried rather than working purely on commission. If I worked at this agency for a few years, I could become an agent eventually. I want to know what I can expect salary-wise if I choose to pursue this career path at this particular agency, because on the one hand I’ve heard that literary agents don’t make a lot of money, but then I also know that film/tv agents at the top agencies can make millions. It’s all rather opaque and I think it would be a bad look to ask the recruiter “how much would I be making in 6 years” lol.

Are there any established agents who can answer this question on here?

I need some advice because I've just received my first assignment as a freelance editorial coordinator, and I have no idea how much to charge. The project involves coordinating a series of 10 books, each containing about 7000 words. I will essentially be the liaison between the suppliers (writer, layout designer, and proofreader) and the publishing house. How much should I charge per book?

I have a boilerplate we use for our copyright page that lists all the normal stuff, but am doing an ARC for the first time on a forthcoming novel. What information should I remove or change on this page?

For example, we print our books in China, but will be doing the ARC via US-based POD. Do I have to change the "Printed in China." line to "Printed in the United States." to be accurate, or is it being an ARC understood to possibly contain inaccurate info like this?

Beyond the copyright page and cover, where else do I need to indicate that it's an uncorrected review copy? Are there standards around this, or is it largely up to me as the publisher how "close to final" I want the book to be in terms of presentation?

Does anyone have experience with either of these programs? I was accepted to both as an international student, and they seem very similar, so I'd love to hear from any former or current students.

(please, no comments saying it isn't worth it/a publishing MA is a waste of money. comments like that seem to dominate these types of posts and I'm looking for other information)

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Is there a deadline to apply? It’s been a month and almost two weeks since it was posted and I’m unsure if I should even bother. I can’t seem to find a deadline anywhere.

i recieved feedback from a prof for a creative nonfiction piece that i should consider publishing it. i am most definitely interested in publishing, however the piece consists blocks of borrowed text and i don't know how to formulate it properly so that it's cited?? if that makes sense?? it's a piece exploring the concept of growing up with undiagnosed ASD and comparing directly to defecting product liability laws (quoting the laws/lawyer explanation of the laws) directly. when i submitted the piece for school i had a write-up & a works cited page so as not to plagiarise, but i'm not sure how to do that in a creative writing piece without making it look like an essay or something. any input is welcome!!

I am finishing a PhD in materials science and bioinspired robotics. I have some experience as a reviewer (mostly IOP journals). I published 7 papers during my PhD including first-author papers in Nature communications materials and Robotics & Automation Letters. Am I sufficiently qualified for a job as an editor? How can I improve my chances of being hired?

I am new to the world of publishing. My first book is open for advance sales in June. I was told that a galley would be sent to me after advanced sales.

How does that make sense? Shouldn't I finalize my collection with my editor BEFORE the advance sale period?

What should I do to prepare for advance sales? The press isn't really walking me through this process. Communication has been minimal so far.

I know I have to create an author website. I'm being published by a small press so they won't do much marketing for me.

I'd apporeciate help to understand the advance sale/galley stage as well as marketing tips.

Thanks!

I was wondering if anyone heard back from them for fall 2024 internships! I applied the last day of the deadline (March 15) so it’s been about 4 weeks and 2 days now.

I've been working in publishing, specifically editorial non-fiction, for almost a decade now. I mostly love the work but I've had to company-hop in order to get decent pay increases and I'm becoming jaded with culture and competitive climate. Two of the companies I've worked at have done 'restructures' in the past, leading to lists being cut and redundancies, and as I'd like to have children in the next few years, this lack of stability makes me nervous.

I know a lot of people have left the industry for this reason and of the people I know (who havent retired), two became agents and one a teacher.

What are some other roles which you've seen people in the industry move into?

So I had a series of books published through a Big 5 a couple of years ago. Through rather complicated personal circumstances I was ghosted and aside from the advance I never received further royalty statements from them - I don't know if I've earned out my tiny advance if or I sold 5 books in total. It is a mystery, I've put it behind me and am starting over. Eventually I might chase it up when I reach out to the agency about my new book.

My first book in the series was put on KDP.

So anyway I've discovered a few small payments (not totalling more than $50 total) that were made recently from Amazon(dot com) services, Amazon Media EU and Amazon CA. Are they KDP amounts from the trad pubbed book? I don't have any Amazon Affiliate or self published books floating around, so I'm uncertain where the money could have come from.

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Hi everyone, Looking for some career advice. I’ve spent about 6 years postgrad doing work in journalism, mainly magazines (writing, editing, proofreading, fact-checking.) The last few years I’ve been working freelance.

I recently got a full time job as a production editor at a weekly science magazine. The content is not mentally stimulating to me, and for a few other reasons, the job isn’t a perfect fit. It does pay relatively well and I’m being trained on software like Incopy.

I’m wondering how easy the transition from a science magazine production editor to a book publishing production editor might be. If it’s plausible that I could work in book publishing as a production editor, I’d stick it out for that career move in a year or so. If production editor jobs are few and far between and the market is uber competitive, I might cut my ties and go back to freelance work, which was more fulfilling but paid less.

Flat River Group just agreed to take on my game into their consignment service. I'm working on getting things together for them but would love any tips/ suggestions.

Thanks!

The website from Penguin Random House states:

Media inquiries and requests for review copies that are title, author, or imprint specific should be submitted to the e-mail address.

but also says:

Please note: We do not send review copies to individual consumers.

So does PRH only send out review copies to major media outlets? I don't know if I can contact the imprint directly or not. I don't know if individual consumers is directed at any random person or if any book reviewer/influencer/social media person is still allowed to.

I have worked in Marketing/Social Media for ~6 years and would love to work in Publishing. I am really looking to find passion in my work again, and I feel like working in an industry that is behind something I already love would be amazing. I've applied to most, if not all, of the big publishing houses before but have never heard back. Assuming it's because I don't have experience in publishing, do you have any advice for breaking into the industry? Starting at Entry Level seems counter-intuitive since I already have so much experience maybe that's the answer?