Something also important to consider, from someone who was in publishing for several years. It is an incredibly unstable business. Imprints are closed every year, rounds of layoffs are common, and you’ll find yourself out of a job more than once. And getting back in can be just as hard. I love publishing, I do, and I loved the many years…
Something also important to consider, from someone who was in publishing for several years. It is an incredibly unstable business. Imprints are closed every year, rounds of layoffs are common, and you’ll find yourself out of a job more than once. And getting back in can be just as hard. I love publishing, I do, and I loved the many years I worked there, but now as I’m desperately trying to find employment again, the instability of the business compared to others is something to consider.
That’s what happened to me. I also acquired a book for a publisher that Murdoch closed after merging Harper with Collins. As the only former staffer to leave publishing, when the author contacted me two years later concerned his book was never presented for sale but merely printed, I was able to take his side in a lawsuit and he won his suit but ten years of book research and writing went down the drain. The Murdoch lawyers for some reason after being gagged and promised a job and then laid off thought I would side with them. One of my prouder moments. That author sent me a Christmas card every year until he died.
Something also important to consider, from someone who was in publishing for several years. It is an incredibly unstable business. Imprints are closed every year, rounds of layoffs are common, and you’ll find yourself out of a job more than once. And getting back in can be just as hard. I love publishing, I do, and I loved the many years I worked there, but now as I’m desperately trying to find employment again, the instability of the business compared to others is something to consider.
That’s what happened to me. I also acquired a book for a publisher that Murdoch closed after merging Harper with Collins. As the only former staffer to leave publishing, when the author contacted me two years later concerned his book was never presented for sale but merely printed, I was able to take his side in a lawsuit and he won his suit but ten years of book research and writing went down the drain. The Murdoch lawyers for some reason after being gagged and promised a job and then laid off thought I would side with them. One of my prouder moments. That author sent me a Christmas card every year until he died.