Right now I have a couple different areas of specific
interest/questions that I’ve been thinking about.
First, as someone who’s very interested in editing—copy editing
in particular, but all forms of editing as well—I was really struck by our
discussions about how editing plays into ideas of ownership and authorship (and
the distinction between the two, if it exists). I’d love to explore these ideas
further—how do these concepts look from the editorial side? From the author’s
perspective? From the reader’s perspective?
I also did my first co-op at a startup that was essentially
a marketing platform for self-published and independent authors. Working closely
with a lot of the authors on our platform gave me a really different
perspective on the publishing world than what I originally came into the job
with. I’m fascinated by the differences between authors who self-publish or
publish independently and those who take the traditional publishing route (for
instance, for many self-published authors, the mailing list is king; reviews
are emphasized and valued more highly; many self-published authors—on our
platform, at least—had certain ideas about what a reader “owed” them for a copy
of or excerpt from their book; and so on). Both trade publishing and
self-publishing seem to have their own little niche worlds and idiosyncrasies,
and yet these microcosms differ so greatly despite the fact that they are just
different areas of the same field. I don’t have fully articulated questions
about these differences at the moment, but would love to look further into
those as well.
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