Open Road’s latest behind-the-scenes in publishing podcast is a recorded conversation from September between Simon Lipskar at Writers House and Open Road ceo David Steinberger. Lipskar discusses learning about the business of the business in his early days as an agent: “All I did was go to lunch and ask questions…. What I learned was nothing surprising, but it all had to do with budgets being based off of gross receipts. That was it. There was nothing more to it. So everyone’s budgets were being built off of gross receipts, and executives’ bonuses were contingent upon delivering on budget. So […]
