{"id":18375,"date":"2023-06-22T21:26:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T01:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18375"},"modified":"2023-06-22T21:26:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T01:26:04","slug":"does-anyone-make-money-in-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18375","title":{"rendered":"Does Anyone Make Money in Publishing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joel Miller sees a thread stretched between three men who died this month: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.millersbookreview.com\/p\/3-literary-deaths-mccarthy-gottlieb-snyder\">publisher Richard Snyder, author Cormac McCarthy, and editor Robert Gottlieb<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He begins at a time when publishing wasn&#8217;t particularly professional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ve been a full-time professional writer for 28 years,\u201d\u00a0McCarthy said in 1989, \u201cand I\u2019ve never received a royalty check. That, I\u2019ll betcha, is a record.\u201d Possibly, but probably not. Publishers have always lost money betting on books. As William Jovanovich once said of his own kind, \u201cThe publisher can at once be regarded as a scoundrel by his authors and an idealist by his bankers. . . .\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Miller sees a thread stretched between three men who died this month: publisher Richard Snyder, author Cormac McCarthy, and editor Robert Gottlieb. He begins at a time when publishing wasn&#8217;t particularly professional. \u201cI\u2019ve been a full-time professional writer for 28 years,\u201d\u00a0McCarthy said in 1989, \u201cand I\u2019ve never received a royalty check. That, I\u2019ll betcha, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18375\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Does Anyone Make Money in Publishing?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[575,4756],"class_list":["post-18375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publishing","tag-cormac-mccarthy","tag-robert-gottlieb"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18376,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18375\/revisions\/18376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}