At one end of the spectrum there are the 5 big commercial publishers Hachette,
HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster. They only
publish stuff their agents select to make a lot of money. There are also the
big academic publishers like OUP, CUP, HUP and MIT Press, which preferably
publish strictly peer-reviewed content from professors at Ivy League
universities who made their PhD at the age of 20.At the other end of the
spectrum there are "predatory publishers" who publish anything you submit as
long as you pay enough money for it. Open access books can also be very
expensive. Publishing an "open access book" at De Gruyter for example costs up
to 8000 $. You pay for it so that other people read it. It is basically some
kind of advertising of your own work.For my own new book I finally have an
offer from a small publisher in Washington D.C. who is somewhere in the middle
of the spectrum. They are really small and offer 5% royalties. Should I accept
this offer or wait for a better one? It is the only one from more than 25
publishers I have asked, and the publishers at the moment are flooded with
submissions.
:-/https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2020/mar/26/novel-writing-during-coronavirus-crisis-outbreak-J.
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