Jane Friedman has spent her complete profession working within the publishing trade, with a concentrate on enterprise reporting and creator training. Established in 2015, her e-newsletter The Backside Line gives nuanced market intelligence to hundreds of authors and trade professionals; in 2023, she was named Publishing Commentator of the Yr by Digital Ebook World.

Jane’s experience commonly options in main media shops reminiscent of The New York Occasions, The Atlantic, NPR, The Immediately Present, Wired, The Guardian, Fox Information, and BBC. Her guide, The Enterprise of Being a Author, Second Version (The College of Chicago Press), is used as a classroom textual content by many writing and publishing diploma applications. She reaches hundreds by means of talking engagements and workshops at various venues worldwide, together with NYU’s Superior Publishing Institute, Frankfurt Ebook Truthful, and quite a few MFA applications.