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{ 2008 04 10 }

A New Kind of Agent

… you need a filter: someone has to decide what to publish, and has to make those decisions based on how many copies they expect to be able to sell. Those people are called “editors,” and their job is to read all the incoming material, decide what is going to have the best chance of selling, and then determine how to promote each item in order to maximize the sales.

A new piece up on Pajamas media.

Posted by Charlie on Thursday, April 10, 2008, at 07:23 (@641). Filed under In Passing, Pajamas Media. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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  1. Wingborn | 2008-Apr-11 at 05:29 (@562) | Permalink

    I’ll wholeheartedly agree with this. In the new world of publishing, both on the internet and on dead trees, it’s the editing that makes all the difference.