What Books Actually Sell?
3 Point Perspective: The Illustration Podcast
SVSlearn.com
4.8 • 834 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Should you let trends drive your creativity? How concerned should you be about saturated markets? Sam Cotterill, Lee White, and Jake Parker discuss the state of the publishing industry and how to navigate it successfully in 2026.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to Three Point Perspective, the podcast about illustration, how to do it, |
| 0:09.0 | how to make a living at it, and how to make an impact in the world with your art. I'm Jake Parker. |
| 0:13.1 | I'm Lee White. And I'm Samantha Caudrill, and let's jump into it. |
| 0:17.8 | All right. This past week, Sam and I were invited to a private Zoom meeting or |
| 0:26.2 | webinar hosted by one of our publishers, which is one of the biggest, is it the biggest publisher in |
| 0:32.3 | the world right now? Penguin Random House. I don't want to say anything, but I've published a few |
| 0:37.1 | books with them. Why didn't I get this invite? Because you don't want to say anything, but I've published a few books with them. |
| 0:37.6 | Why didn't I get this invite? |
| 0:39.3 | Because you don't check your email. |
| 0:41.3 | Oh, it is probably. |
| 0:43.1 | It's probably in there. |
| 0:44.8 | Okay. |
| 0:46.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:46.6 | No, they send it to all. |
| 0:48.8 | I mean, if you, if you're on their email list for like author, like their author email |
| 0:53.7 | lists that they send, I don't |
| 0:56.4 | know, probably once a month. You get an email from them or a couple times a month. And they'll |
| 1:01.8 | just say every once in a while we've had, we have training or we have this, this sort of |
| 1:06.8 | business info that we're going to do. this particular thing that they were doing it was several |
| 1:12.4 | different series of trainings and information um not lectures but like presentations right um with different |
| 1:24.1 | people inside the company so it was super interesting and you could come and go, and, you know, some of it was like, |
| 1:29.1 | how to use your author portal? |
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