Comments on: Our Thoughts On A Controversial Matter

By: booksquare

booksquare — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 06:38:26 +0000

Hi, Edward, good to meet you…you know, we’ve been meaning to talk to you…did you really mean it when you…

Poor man, I wonder if he even knows that he’s a household name around here?

By: David Thayer

David Thayer — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 06:27:49 +0000

Great idea. I can only imagine Edward Wyatt, a mild mannered business reporter, wondering how he became ensnared in the madness of publishing.

By: booksquare

booksquare — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 06:02:34 +0000

SusanG, you win the secret door prize! I so wanted to say that books are not soap, but didn’t want to give away the punchline. Branding is cool, if you’re branding logically. Extra points for cyncism…remember when we were young and innocent?

David — we can form Thayer & Booksquare: We Know What You Don’t. I can’t wait to meet Edward Wyatt at an industry party (surely we’ll be invited someday). So much to talk about…

By: Susan Gable

Susan Gable — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 20:40:16 +0000

Sounds like they’re going along with the Harlequin/Sil theory – it’s the line/imprint/brand that matters, not the individual authors. (sigh)

The funny thing is, some of the H/S covers are now minimizing the “line-look” and trying to look more like single titles.

Guess that means everyone wants what they don’t have, or something like that.

I was not reassured by the one sentence in the article where the publisher said authors were important. Call me cynical.

Books should NOT be marketed like soup, with a distinctive red-and-white label to tell you which company produced it. But what do I know?

By: David Thayer

David Thayer — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 05:29:42 +0000

We’re on the same wavelength about the NYT article. David