I had to send her over to Editorial Anonymous for a brush up on publishing terms.
sell-in and sell-through
proofs
ARCs
Galleys
and what sounds fun, but isn't what you think: strippable
For all the definitions click Publishing Dictionary.
**one day lay down, or lay down is the date when a title goes on sale in a special "not before today" way. It's usually reserved for books that have a lot of popular demand: Stephenie Meyer, William Gibson, Michael Crichton and the like. It's pretty much the antithesis of vacation day for bookstore staffers!
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The octopus looks so cute like that! (I love cephalopods. I'm currently wearing earrings that look like cuttlefish.)
Yikes! That definition of sell-in is one more intimidating thing to consider in the process of publication. (Not that authors probably have very much power in that area anyway...)
The octopus looks so cute and shy. Is she embarrassed that she didn't know those terms? Or just pondering other meanings of 'strippable'?
I need an octopus. Of course, who doesn't need one?
Thanks for the links to the terminology... good things to know!
I think the pink octopus looks a little sad & tired - might be thinking, "so many books, so little time... how will I ever manage to read them all?"
Okay, test,
What's the gutter?
How do illustrators plan for it?
Haste yee back ;-)
I am suddenly reminded of how sad and tired employees at Borders looked upon the release of the last Harry Potter book.
I have to ask where you got the octopus. My freshmen roommate in college had an octopus with only 7 tentacles and we named it Heppy (the heptapus). I have been looking for a cute octopus/heptapus ever since.
That is one sad 'pus. Awww.
Actually, speaking as one of those bookstore staffers, the hardest day is the day *before* the S.O.S. (strict on sale) date--when the books are physically present in the store's back room and everyone is asking for it and you have to tell them to turn around and come back tomorrow because it's more than your job's worth to hand over that latest Meyer or Rowling book.
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