Being Quote by Andrew Shaffer

I'm always astonished when I go into Barnes & Noble at the number of people buying books, of course, but also at the variety…

— Michael Korda

To many book professionals, Amazon is a ruthless predator. The company claims to want a more literate world - and it came along when…

— George Packer

The point is that if a book that had been published three years ago started to sell twice as many all of a sudden…

— Terry Pratchett

Books seem so much more interesting in the book store.

— Anonymous

It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.

— George Packer

The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an 80% "piracy"…

— Charles Stross

Booksellers initially thought of Amazon as their best friend. They were coming in, and they were challenging Barnes and Noble, and Borders, which were…

— Franklin Foer

Success is not measured by bestseller lists. Certain types of great books sell very well; other types of great books don’t sell a lot.…

— Po Bronson

Apple doesn't need to maximize book sales. It simply needs to keep publishers happy enough to maintain an impressive-sounding inventory of titles while waiting…

— Virginia Postrel

My creator owned books sell better than my mainstream books. And that makes no sense.

— Kelly Sue DeConnick

“Unlike traditional retailers, Amazon returned few unsold books, often less than 5 percent. The big book chains regularly returned 40 percent of all the…

— Brad Stone

While some of the big publishers might give out 200,000 advances, if your book does not hit some of the lists in the second…

— Caroline Leavitt