So You Want to Be a Publisher
I’m a member of the Internet Press Guild, a group of very seasoned technology journalists. We discuss a lot about the business of media and writing in our little private enclave. There’s often a lot of career discussion, especially since most of us got our start writing way before “Internet” or “blogging” were words anyone used.
Today, one of our very seasoned writers asked about making that transition from author to publisher. Now, I’ve been a publisher of one sort or another since the 1980s and until my recent forays into government policy, the only job title I ever put on forms was “publisher”.
The point is, I have some experience with this subject. If you combine the fact that I’m a programmer with the fact that I’m a publisher, you begin to understand why I have such a flowery command of profanity.
