1. The author should contact the publisher directly. 2. The author personally contacts the publishing house through recommendations from famous writers recognized by the publishing house. 3. The author personally entrusts professionals to contact the publishing house.
1. The author should contact the publisher directly.
If you have the contact information of the publisher, I won’t say more. For those who do not have the contact information of the publishing house, it is very passive. The author needs to find the online submission channel of the publishing house, upload and submit his manuscript, and wait for the editor's review results. For most self-published books, the editor will directly reject the manuscript. Unless the self-published book is very good and the editor likes it, the editor will take the initiative to contact the author to discuss the publication.
2. The author personally contacts the publishing house through recommendations from famous writers recognized by the publishing house.
If the author is not well-known before the editor of the publishing house, it will be difficult for him to gain the trust of the editor. For example, if you find a well-known writer to recommend to the publishing house, the efficiency will be much faster. But in this way, unless the author's book is very good, no one will recommend it to you.
3. The author personally entrusts professionals to contact the publishing house.
One of the ways publishers publish books publicly is self-published books. Manuscripts published at self-funded books are usually recommended to the publisher by the publishing company. If the author entrusts a publishing company to handle the book publishing, it will be easier to contact the publishing house, and problems encountered in the book publishing process, such as how to apply for an ISBN for personal publishing, will also be easily solved.
Publishing Development
China’s publishing industry has a long history. As early as 3,000 years ago, primitive books appeared in the slave society of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, and editing work began in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Many Confucian classics were compiled and edited at that time. After the invention of engraving and printing in the Tang Dynasty, private private publishing industry engraving workshops appeared. The official engraving institutions of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the Imperial College and the Xingwen Bureau, had full-time officials, editors and proofreaders, engraving workers, and printing workers, which were the prototypes of later presses and printing bureaus.
The national publishing organization in the Ming Dynasty had carved books into different categories. Local publishing institutions have developed more than in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Each province has a chief secretary and an inspector to engrave books, and many prefectures and counties also publish books and local chronicles. In the early Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's method of central agencies in charge of publishing books was changed, and official engravings were centralized and unified in the Wuying Hall of the Imperial Household. The engraving workshop is a handicraft book engraving institution run by general booksellers. It appeared in the Tang Dynasty and became more prosperous in the Song Dynasty, becoming an important force in book publishing.
In the Song Dynasty, there were bookshops in all major cities across the country, with Hangzhou and Jianyang being the most developed. There were more square carvings than official carvings in the Yuan Dynasty. During the Ming Dynasty, engraving workshops were spread all over the country, and the types of engraving books included medical books, classic books, novels, operas, etc. Square carvings became more prosperous in the Qing Dynasty. In addition to official engravings and official engravings, there is also private engraving, also called family engraving, which is a privately funded school publication. These people try their best to select excellent rare books, edit and reprint them carefully and carefully, generally of high quality, and many of them have become "rare books" handed down from generation to generation.