A hot and humid Monday here at the Jersey Shore, so sit back, get a cool beverage and lets check out the Musing Mondays question from Just One More PageToday’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about publishing houses …
Do you have a favourite publishing house -- one that puts out books that you constantly find yourself wanting to read? If so, who? And, what books have they published that you've loved? (question courtesy of MizB)
To be quite honest, I have never paid the slightest bit of attention to publishers. Except for e-mailing them, asking for an avaiable ARc or stuff like that. I get the newsletters of few and I follow a few on Twitter to see if anything interesing is being mentioned out there in BookLand. Of course, with my relationship with Twitter, to say that I actually follow might be an exaggeration....
So let me see if there is any relationship between the books I like and who
published them. And do do that, I will again call on my beloved Library Thing. I went to my "Your Books" page, sort by ratings so the books I have rated highest are there first and then scrolled down to see if there was a pattern. Well, two of the most recent ones I rated 5 stars on LT, The Help and The School of Essential Ingredients, are both published by Putnam Adult (oh, my, that makes them sound rather naughty ;-O ). But then it is a real mix....until I noticed a bit further down, in my earlier entered 5 star and 4 1/2 star books, a great many books have been published by Bantam. It is because they seem to be the publisher of some of my favorite authors, authors who books I regularly read and like...Dean Koontz, Cody McFadyen, Lisa Gardner, Laurie R. King, all published by Bantam. But then, Bantam is owned by Random House, so if you add in other Random imprints, the number would go up even higher no doubt. Three Rivers, Alfred A. Knopf, Knopf Doubleday, Dial Press...wait, is there really only one huge publishing house?
So, my answer would have to be no. It is not about the publisher, it is about the author. If my favorite author changes publisher, of course I will be right there with them.
For me, it goes by the book series. If Star Trek switched to Penguin, I'd still buy it.
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I'm with you. I pay very little attention to who is behind the fun.
ReplyDeletePublisher doesn't matter to me either. Here's my response.
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with you. I might buy a particular series from one publisher, but if the series changed to a different publisher I'd still buy them. It's all about the book and author for me, not so much the publisher.
ReplyDeleteHmm, there definitely is something incongruous about the three words: I, follow and twitter in the same sentence. Have a good week.
ReplyDeleteChaos will take over? Better lower the cone of silence!
ReplyDeleteI live in the Cone of Silence!
ReplyDeleteI'm like you. If an author I like was to switch to a different publisher, I would follow. But ultimately, it's really not about the publisher. I hadn't really thought of it like that before, though.
ReplyDeleteI'm like you. If an author I like was to switch to a different publisher, I would follow. But ultimately, it's really not about the publisher. I hadn't really thought of it like that before, though.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree!
ReplyDeletea million brilliant...we could live without publishers...but not without authors.
ReplyDeleteHey! Kathy is back from her latest vacation!
I never really paid attention to this until I accidentally started requesting Christian Fiction books from a publisher I didn't know was a Christian Fiction publisher via LT's Early Reviewer thing ... now I know to "avoid" them. : )
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