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With more people working from home, how can our industry justify typical midtown offices? How can senior executives justify large offices for themselves and battery-hen cubicles for lower-level staffers? Charkin, R. (2023, January 27). Richard Charkin: "Remnants of Organs" in Medicine and Publishing . Publishing Perspectives. Retrieved January 29, 2023, from https://publishingperspectives.com/2022/07/richard-charkin-vestigial-organs-in-medicine-and-publishing/ How long does it take from an editor’s enthusiasm for a book to the point of offering the terms of a contract?

Richard Charkin: A 2022 Publishing Resolution Richard Charkin: A 2022 Publishing Resolution

The lawyer in the United States from whom he tried to buy the URL mensch.com does not appear to have even tried to live up to the word. “I wrote to him saying, ‘Would you sell it to me?’ and he said, ‘Yeah, for a million dollars.’ I said, ‘Well, that’s not very menschlich. You don’t deserve it.’” He laughs. “Which is why we’re menschpublishing.com.” It’s about time that trade book publishers took the plunge and offered their authors genuine worldwide support through their extensive infrastructures. And it’s about time that literary agents focused on their authors’ careers rather than the next big advance. And what have I learned that I can share with fellow authors? Writing is hard. Editing is essential. Publishers add enormously but it is more important to find the right publisher than to chase the money. Try to write to one audience not several, as if talking to a single person. Take criticism in the spirit it’s made. Work hard at every aspect up to and beyond publication date. Enjoy the ride. It’s a truism, but helping authors create their books and find their markets and share a common set of goals is immensely rewarding–when it worksWho is it for? Publishing recruits, students and researchers, authors, librarians, colleagues, friends, enemies? We probably should have decided at the outset but eventually plumped on the core market being people new to the industry. I am an author, and I agree that writing a book is not easy and requires a great deal of effort and skill to effectively complete. However, when done well, it can attract people to buy and read the book. I recently read the memoir; it is wonderful.

MY BACK PAGES (MY BACK PAGES: An undeniably personal history MY BACK PAGES (MY BACK PAGES: An undeniably personal history

Another shift covered in the book covers is the growing diversity in publishing and the benefits this brings – though the industry still has a long way to go.

My challenge began some years ago when a handful of people asked me if I was ever going to write my memoirs. I said no for many reasons. In Yoddish ‘Mensch’ means a decent and upstanding person. I wanted my business operations to reflect that ethos. My resolution for 2022 is to get out my tape measure and use it on an as many variables as I can. The idea will be to measure everything possible and to interpret and implement the results. It would be good if others in the book business—particularly the larger firms where the size of data makes results more reliable—did the same. Scientific journal publishers have been doing much of this for decades and I wouldn’t mind enjoying their margins.

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