Publishing Industry

[Leisie93]

<p>I'm a creative writing/history double major in Westchester County New York about to finish my sophomore year. I've always been the kind of person who fretted over the next ten years of my life. In terms of a career, I've had a huge interest in archives studies for a while, but I've recently been attracted to scholarly publishing. I don't want to do fiction or trade publishing partly because I don't like the idea of doing a ton of reading fiction that I'm not interested in and I get the sense that scholarly publishing might be a little different if I can specialize in history or literature or something. Is that the case? Do you need beyond a bachelors to do scholarly publishing as opposed to trade publishing? Is trade harder to get a job in or scholarly harder? With archives, I can picture myself surrounded by materials, plugging them into a database, and loving the whole thing. With publishing, I have no clue if I'd love it or hate it. But I figure I'll never know unless I try, so internship here I come! The number one thing I've heard about both industries is that they are very hard to get jobs in. Whatever I find in blogs and articles is just depressing. Can someone please just fill me in on the publishing industry and what it entails? Thanks!</p>