
My brother-in-law used to work for a book packager. The funny thing was, he didn't know that's what it was called, even when he work

A book packager puts a book together for a publishing house. These books can be religion, children's, crafts, teen series, all sorts of things. Teen series are the most famous packaged books, such as The Beacon Street Girls, the Clique books, Sweet Valley High, and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, going all the way back to Nancy Drew. A packaging company will come up with a book concept, research and hire a writer (who normally is paid a flat fee and not paid a royalty), they will do editing, layout, copyediting, proofreading, jacket design,


Packagers need most of the same people - editors, designers, copyeditors, marketers - as publishing houses. They're just companies you've likely not heard of. Some of the bigger packagers are 17th Street Productions, Alloy Media, becker&mayer!, Quirk Publishing, MTM Publishers, Amaranth, and Spooky Cheetah.
Why are some books packaged? They might have a very marketing-h



More resources:
Bookends, LLC
American Book Producers Association
Seth Godin
How Publishing Really Works
1 comment:
The Traveling Pants is a packaged book?
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