Hardcover sales. And now more on the world of political books with peter osnos founder of Public Affairs books. Well, mr. Osnos, you have been in Book Publishing for 40 years, but prior to that. Youre a journalist for many years. How did you make that transition . Well, id reached the point where i thought i had sort of fulfilled whatever plan i could have in journalism. In the sense that ive been a Foreign Correspondent a variety of places. Ive been an editor and the president chairman of random house said, you know journalism is really not a fit profession for growing and if you ever get serious, call me. So i did and they found a position for me is a Senior Editor at random house, which was obviously a great place to go and so i sort of made a lateral move. Out of the Washington Post into being a first book editor and eventually a book publisher. So it was a midcareer move. I brought with me all the experience. I had in journalism, which turned out to be very valuable and connection
Hardcover sales. And now more on the world of political books with peter osnos founder of Public Affairs books. Well, mr. Osnos, you have been in Book Publishing for 40 years, but prior to that. Youre a journalist for many years. How did you make that transition . Well, id reached the point where i thought i had sort of fulfilled whatever plan i could have in journalism. In the sense that ive been a Foreign Correspondent a variety of places. Ive been an editor and the president chairman of random house said, you know journalism is really not a fit profession for growing and if you ever get serious, call me. So i did and they found a position for me is a Senior Editor at random house, which was obviously a great place to go and so i sort of made a lateral move. Out of the Washington Post into being a first book editor and eventually a book publisher. So it was a midcareer move. I brought with me all the experience. I had in journalism, which turned out to be very valuable and connection
Transition . Well, id reached the point where i thought i had sort of fulfilled whatever plan i could have in journalism. In the sense that ive been a Foreign Correspondent a variety of places. Ive been an editor and the president chairman of random house said, you know journalism is really not a fit profession for growing and if you ever get serious, call me. So i did and they found a position for me is a Senior Editor at random house, which was obviously a great place to go and so i sort of made a lateral move. Out of the Washington Post into being a first book editor and eventually a book publisher. So it was a midcareer move. I brought with me all the experience. I had in journalism, which turned out to be very valuable and connections. So i i know one of the last thing i realized almost as soon as i got there that the difference is in the newspaper business you went out and got the story in the Publishing Business you get the story and then you have to sell the story. And i kind o
Foreign correspondent a variety of places. Ive been an editor and the president chairman of random house said, you know journalism is really not a fit profession for growing and if you ever get serious, call me. So i did and they found a position for me is a Senior Editor at random house, which was obviously a great place to go and so i sort of made a lateral move. Out of the Washington Post into being a first book editor and eventually a book publisher. So it was a midcareer move. I brought with me all the experience. I had in journalism, which turned out to be very valuable and connections. So i i know one of the last thing i realized almost as soon as i got there that the difference is in the newspaper business you went out and got the story in the Publishing Business you get the story and then you have to sell the story. And i kind of enjoyed that part of it as much as i enjoyed getting stories. So thats why i ended up doing the career. I did well in a recent article and Publishers
Founder of Public Affairs books you have been and Book Publishing you have been a journalist for many years how did you make that transition . And the sense of the identifying correspondent and the president at random house said if you are serious call me so i did and they found a position for me as a Senior Editor at random house and i made a lateral move. And then i realized almost as soon as i got there in the newspaper business you get the story in the Publishing Business you get the story then have to sell it i enjoy that much getting the story. In a recent article in Publishers Weekly you say you became a specialist in acquiring political books. How did that happen quick. My background in journalism is important to National Editor of the Washington Post i covered president s from the vietnam war so i had a very wide range of experience and that was of interest and my first major were very satisfying one was tip oneills called man of the house the other was Sam Donaldson white hou