A brief delay
Oct. 30th, 2007 12:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperancePeople not involved in The Industry, as we like to call it, are often surprised by how long it takes a book to be published. The shortest interval I've ever experienced between delivery and publication has been eight months; a year is standard. When they ask why, there is a standard spiel about the process, but mostly it boils down to the insolence of office and the law's delay.
But anyway: delay, it appears, has been built into publishing since the Very Early Days. Cambridge University Press obtained its royal charter 'to print all manner of books' from Henry VIII in 1534.
The Press published its first book in, wait for it, 1584.
That's fifty years.
What were they doing?
But anyway: delay, it appears, has been built into publishing since the Very Early Days. Cambridge University Press obtained its royal charter 'to print all manner of books' from Henry VIII in 1534.
The Press published its first book in, wait for it, 1584.
That's fifty years.
What were they doing?
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Date: 2007-10-30 11:23 am (UTC)We like to cut it fine in the small presses.
There's probably a gag to be made there about John being permanently out to lunch, but I'm certainly not going to be the one to make it.
(I'm only typing that because he's flat out with a bad back and can't see his computer screen).