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Kill Fee?
What is a dummy?
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What is a dummy?
bae
one of those zombie dead things
a branch of a publishing company
a mock-up of a book that shows where the front matter appear
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Kill Fee?
the amount of money you owe for killing someone
a payment that may be made to an author when pub. cancels
a clause in a publishing agreement
when you get mad and kill the publisher
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What is a boilerplate? HAHA you might fail
the right to reproduce/distribute works of orig. expression
a publisher's contract offered to an author/starting point
a legal document detailing an author's agreement to publish
agreements from copy holders
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what is the back matter?
idk bro
printed material that appears in the back of the book
the matter on your back
a biography of the author
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What does the author's backlist provide?
me
a source of revenue
frontlist sales
a biography about themselves
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what are bluelines often referred to as?
printer's photocopy
blues
the author's opinion
book manufacturing
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What is a trade bookseller?
me me me
sales that do not specialize in book retail
honey
someone who distributes books to the public
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What do agents help with?
pass your manuscript onto the developing editor
help place your work with publishers & performs other duties
help you cry
publish your work
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What are ARE's used for?
what even is this???!
send to book reviewers or distributors
mocking unhelpful books
shelved for consumers to purchase
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What does a distributor do?
warehouses, catalogs, markets, and sells books to publishers
distributes new books that might give authors ideas
hands out candy to the little children
sells the books to retail shops
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What are advance copies?
all the books released in the current season
i don't know and don't really care
the name of a line of books
the first finished books that are designated to fill orders
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What does PP&B stand for?
paper, publishing, binding
paper, printing, and binding
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peanut phrases and bullying
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Chains?
large companies owning many bookstores under the same name
book sales to schools and libraries
expenditures by a bookstore
object you tie around your enemy
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Why is spoilage bad?
you waste paper!
you spoil your book's plot before publisher's approval
you delete a section from your piece instead of revising it
you waste milk that your mom paid for
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What are proofs?
branch of a publishing company
the proof that your work is not plagiarised
the typeset pages of a book for review
books from previous seasons that are still in print
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What is an agent?
someone who edits your work
a book industry professional helping authors & illustrators
someone who helps you solve your problems
a book industry professional who represents editors
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What are some examples of trade booksellers?
superstores, chain stores, booksellers, and online retailers
shops and yogurtland
grocery stores, magazines, book fairs, retailers
trade with books
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What are sales calls?
a call the author gets when someone has purchased their book
standard account number
selling books to the general public
appointments between the publisher's representatives & buyer
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How do you proofread?
change something to an original work
clean up any typographical errors & reread the piece
send a manuscript
quickly skim over the piece
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Where are book signings held?
book stores or fairs
Los Angeles
at the author's home
in your closet
