Indian - Editor | 1943 -
I use Amazon for books. I use Amazon for loads of other things. I regard Amazon as a source, as I think a lot of other people do.
Sonny Mehta
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A good part of the work is just reading a manuscript and coming to the office. I can't imagine wanting to even read an article about book publishing.
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So much has changed in our business. E-books, that's been one of the principal developments. There has been also the failure of Borders and the rise of Amazon, just to name two others.
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I have, from time to time, stopped using it for books, when they pissed me off about something - the negotiation with Hachette, for instance. I thought that was outrageous bullying, and I discontinued using Amazon for books. I did use it for socks, but I didn't use it to buy books.
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The biggest kick is reading something new and exciting and then getting other people to share your enthusiasm. Beyond all the cant and hypocrisy in publishing, that's what it's all about.
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Knopf is solidly profitable, and that is how I intend to keep it.
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Profit is one way that you can take pride in the way you publish things and insure that you can go on doing it.
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There's a blockbuster side to Knopf, whether it's P. D. James or John le Carre or our best-selling books. We try to sell our writers as aggressively as those houses regarded as commercial with a capital C.
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I didn't think I would be an exceptional writer, and I thought I might be a useful publisher. I've never regretted it.
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At Knopf, everything is inherited.
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We think continuity's important.
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As I see it, my job has always been to champion the work of the authors I publish.
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