Writing 101

Although I've written about many of these terms and issues in other columns, I keep meeting people who don’t seem to understand exactly what the difference is between some of these terms. If you're going to be in the publishing industry, you need to know the language that they use. So I've decided to put it all together in one easy column.

l Trade Publisher: A trade publisher is a publisher who publishes books for a general audience most often books that are sold through bookstores. This is the sort of publisher that most people think of when they think of publishers. Trade publishers publish both fiction and nonfiction, their exact requirements can always be found on their submission pages. A trade publisher considers many submitted manuscripts and chooses only the best to publish. The reason that they choose only the best is because they will make a big investment in the book and need to get their investment back.

The trade publisher is responsible for all of the costs of producing, marketing, and distributing the book. The writer will receive a royalty on sales, usually around 10%.

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