Further Questions About Publishing

Last weeks prompt that I am writing this week (because I kind of forgot, ooops) was to write about some questions we have related to publishing. I returned to some of the ones I wrote down earlier in the semester and added a few in light of our discussions. Here are a few:

• Do publishers create trends in publishing, or do external forces create trends in publishing? If publishers create trends, what do they try and go for and how do they decide what will be trendy? If external forces dictate publishing trends, what do publishers think about/look at when deciding what they will publish?
• I raised this as a result from some of our readings where they talked about trends in types of books and a little about the covers that are found in different genres.
• How does the industry differ in more academic publishing? What distinguishes good and bad quality of work in strictly academic publishing?
• Academic publishing almost certainly come up in my future at some point and it would be helpful/cool to know more about the process,
• Have publishing houses transitioned to hiring people remotely? 
• In my mind, it seems like a lot of jobs could be done remotely in a way that could be mutually beneficial considering the conversations we've been having about low starting salary, the living in New York, etc. 
• What are the environmental concerns with publishing physical books these days? 
• It's a lot of paper, no?
• How do translations get published? At what step does a translator get called in? In general, how faithful are translations?

I definitely have more questions, but these are the ones I have written down and a few I could come up with off top. I look forward to our further discussions/readings that will hopefully answer these questions and others.