<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post114692602708378430..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114692602708378430/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/daniel-green-does-some-counting-and.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>6</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114727572666723211</id><published>2006-05-10T11:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-10T11:42:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>As a matter of fact the major trade publishers tak...</title><summary type='text'>As a matter of fact the major trade publishers take losses on the great majority of their publications.  The best sellers trump everything else on the lists and are what keep publishers afloat.  North Point Press, a former medium-sized press in the Bay Area, actually existed for--what?--15 years, on the strength of three or four best sellers (Connell&#39;s Son of the Morning Star, West With The Night</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114692602708378430/comments/default/114727572666723211'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114692602708378430/comments/default/114727572666723211'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/daniel-green-does-some-counting-and.html?showComment=1147275720000#c114727572666723211' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/daniel-green-does-some-counting-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114692602708378430' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114692602708378430' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 10, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114714656822233506</id><published>2006-05-08T23:49:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-08T23:49:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>it&#39;s not clear how they&#39;re figuring university pre...</title><summary type='text'>it&#39;s not clear how they&#39;re figuring university presses into these figures. i assume that 23.7 billion figure would include them. harvard, oxford, u cal, cambridge, mit, yale, chicago would constitute likely  the big six of that market. &amp; none of them would qualify for the moniker small press to my mind. &amp; their sales figures would certainly be substantial, i&#39;d expect at least 10 percent of the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114692602708378430/comments/default/114714656822233506'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114692602708378430/comments/default/114714656822233506'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/daniel-green-does-some-counting-and.html?showComment=1147146540000#c114714656822233506' title=''/><author><name>Rod</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04543669481596247334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/daniel-green-does-some-counting-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114692602708378430' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114692602708378430' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1664147057"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 08, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114708881148604791</id><published>2006-05-08T07:46:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-08T07:46:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>More accurately, a few of the trade books sell a g...</title><summary type='text'>More accurately, a few of the trade books sell a gazillion copies. Many novels and trade books of poetry struggle to sell 1,000 copies.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114692602708378430/comments/default/114708881148604791'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114692602708378430/comments/default/114708881148604791'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/daniel-green-does-some-counting-and.html?showComment=1147088760000#c114708881148604791' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/daniel-green-does-some-counting-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114692602708378430' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114692602708378430' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 08, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114705722373355760</id><published>2006-05-07T23:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-07T23:00:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>These stats do imply, basically, that small presse...</title><summary type='text'>These stats do imply, basically, that small presses print a gazillion books and sell a few of each book.  Whereas large presses print a few books, and sell a gazillion copies of each.  By definition, it&#39;s more practical to review the few books that sell a gazillion copies than to review the gazillion books that sell a few.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114692602708378430/comments/default/114705722373355760'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114692602708378430/comments/default/114705722373355760'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/daniel-green-does-some-counting-and.html?showComment=1147057200000#c114705722373355760' title=''/><author><name>Brett</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09958984151677722851</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/daniel-green-does-some-counting-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114692602708378430' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114692602708378430' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1222757787"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 07, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114703563314160355</id><published>2006-05-07T17:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-07T17:00:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>One turns to Business Week for exactly this: niche...</title><summary type='text'>One turns to Business Week for exactly this: niche markets, commercial critical mass. Pop biology and pop physics meets marketing &quot;science&quot; in an uncritical Babbittry that defines the doxa of our day. And the unexamined life? Worth $23.7 billion a year. &quot;Oh poet, you should get a spreadsheet.&quot; Excel for Poets: 7x10, paper, available at flea markets everywhere.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114692602708378430/comments/default/114703563314160355'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114692602708378430/comments/default/114703563314160355'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/daniel-green-does-some-counting-and.html?showComment=1147035600000#c114703563314160355' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05529898733002317995</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/daniel-green-does-some-counting-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114692602708378430' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114692602708378430' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-895736745"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 07, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114697355656526480</id><published>2006-05-06T23:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-06T23:45:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>That&#39;s a nice Wall Street assertion.  Small preses...</title><summary type='text'>That&#39;s a nice Wall Street assertion.  Small preses have a larger market share therefore more attention should be paid to whatever they publish.  Since the majority of books by presses other than the gang of eight are about how crystals can change your life, what to do at the End Times, how to really learn Excel etc. etc. then it must follow that these are the books that should be reviewed...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114692602708378430/comments/default/114697355656526480'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114692602708378430/comments/default/114697355656526480'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/daniel-green-does-some-counting-and.html?showComment=1146973500000#c114697355656526480' title=''/><author><name>joe green</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12257285616529795340</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/daniel-green-does-some-counting-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114692602708378430' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114692602708378430' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 06, 2006"/></entry></feed>