On Nov 21, 2011, at 7:43 PM, Smith, Boyd W SGT NG NG FORSCOM wrote: > More and more we get 'lessons' in how book publishing works from your > perspective (REF). Would it be fair to say that the publishing business is > rather more complex and not as straight forward as it looks from the > perspective of those of us who buy books? >
I wager just about anyone in any given field will tell you it's always far more complex than it looks from the outside. I had a buddy worked one summer at a "snack shack" at the beach. I went to help him out for a few days when one of his co-workers had to do a weekend of Army Reserve, and just setting up that damn thing was ten times harder and more complex than I would have imagined walking up from the outside to order an order of fries and a coke. It takes all my self control sometimes when someone on Facebook or twitter says, "Have you ever thought about turning your books into a movie?" Why, no! I haven't! What a wonderful idea! I'll rush right out and do it! Sometimes it's just a really poorly phrased question because they don't say, "Hey, I have no idea what goes into this but . . . " But some of them really seem to think I sit there with no idea that movies are adapted from books, and I can just pick up the phone and make it happen. Still, I know next to nothing about how you farm kelp to make health food seaweed supplements so I just bite my tongue and try to be patient. Best,R.E.F. ---- www.crydee.com Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained away by stupidity.
