Questions tagged [publishing]
Publishing is the occupation or activity of preparing and issuing books, journals, and other material for sale.
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Batman 89' by Sam Hamm TPB
Does the following Batman 89' Trade paper back by Sam Hamm contain the entire story arc (i.e. it has a closed ending)?
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Does anyone know the history of "Isaac Asimov Presents" outside the anthology series?
My question is at the bottom of the post.
While reading through another question on this site, I came across Neal Barrett Jr's Through Darkest America. Boldly at the top of the book it says "...
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Where can I find this fake seventh Harry Potter book?
At some point before the release of the seventh Harry Potter book, someone had taken the fanfiction "The Seventh Horcrux" by Melindaleo, and packaged it as an ebook intended to look like a ...
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Publishing error in American edition of The Lord of the Rings [closed]
I am working on a research project about The Lord of the Rings and my English teacher mentioned some sort of publishing error when the books were being sent to the US for publishing. She has further ...
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Why did Tanith Lee have difficulty being published in the '90s?
Tanith Lee was a prolific award winning writer who I read consistently through the '70s and '80s.
I read in her Wikipedia page that in the latter part of her life she had trouble even getting ...
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Is there an English language edition of the entirety of Lem's "The Star Diaries" in a single volume?
I own a copy of Memoirs of a Space Traveler, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982, in hardback. This book is composed of several stories from the Polish version of Stanislaw Lem's The Star Diaries ...
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Is it standard for Del Rey digital books to not include cover images?
I've purchased two titles (epub format), and there are no cover images. Otherwise they are everything to be expected. In place of the cover image is some placeholder image which is the Ballantine/Del ...
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Blurb from dust jacket of the first edition (1950) of Isaac Asimov's Pebble in the Sky
In Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (1975), which includes autobiographical notes between stories, Isaac Asimov wrote,
I had sold my first book, PEBBLE IN THE SKY, some six weeks before I
had accepted ...
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Do any editions of Chronicles of Narnia use the publication order numbering?
It seems that nearly everyone online suggests to read the Chronicles of Narnia in its original intended publication order (see for example the answers on this question), but it also seems that the ...
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Will there be a The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Sixth Annual Collection?
Will one be published? The Year's Best Science Fiction has been an annual Xmas gift for 35 years. Was confused when I got The Very Best of the Best. Only to realize Gardner Dozois died in 2018! Any ...
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Are there any unpublished Iain M. Banks short stories?
Iain M. Banks only ever published one collection of short stories. Do we know if he left any short stories unpublished or have any come to light since his death?
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Where is Asimov's "The Complete Stories" (Doubleday/Broadway) volume 3
Doubleday started an ambitious project of collecting all of Asimov's short fiction between covers in 1990, with two volumes, containing 86 stories out of a total of 383. Broadway Books (New York) ...
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What's the target audience of Discworld and how was it pitched for a publishing house?
I'm not in the publishing area, but recently I've been reading up on middle grade and YA literature and the importance of target audiences, etc and then I started wondering about the Discworld series.
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Why did a security guide become a tour guide in Artemis Fowl: the Eternity Code?
The edition of Artemis Fowl: the Eternity Code on Google Books, a 2014 collection of books 1–4 of the series by Penguin, reads at a certain point:
Juliet had put on her best cutesy voice for the ...
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