Dear All,
let me say how grateful I am that colleagues now openly discuss the
matter and not just send private replies.
I may be ill informed but I had thought they had bought themselves at
least the equipment to do the typesetting. The cover design is done by a
firm calling themselves The Cover Factory, whoever that is. I am just
wondering what they have actually done themselves in terms of
production. Have they just read the submissions, decided what to publish
and all the rest was outsourced? Then I really understand why all the
money is gone. Perhaps even more so when they paid themselves salaries
for reading and selecting the manuscripts on top of it. Anyway, thank
you all for the information that I have received so far - I am very
grateful.
Perhaps Salt will remain in our minds as THE prototypical poetry
publisher - prototypical in how to invest £180.000 within a short period
of time and not to survive as a poetry publisher.
Wolfgang
Am 19.07.2013 21:49, schrieb Mark Weiss:
> Some of it may have gone for those hardcovers Tony mentioned. But here's the bottom line costs. Even if you only print one copy each time you need it you stillhave to pay for design and for the printer's setup time. Salt was churning out an amazing number of books.
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>> Yes, Wolfgang, I remember that discussion you mention three years ago. When I heard that Salt had got a £180.000 grant I couldn’t understand it, and why it would cost so much to churn out PODs which are cheap to do. That’s why publishers do PODs to begin with. Salt only recently stopped doing PODs. During Salt’s peak, the period we are talking about, they were very much doing them. Can anyone here explain this? Those in the know. How can £180.000 be spent a year on PODs, with no money going on marketing to promote each poet, with each poet told by Salt they have to self-promote.
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