Algebra Quote by Gian-Carlo Rota

“The primary reason more explicit material is now being published is twofold: there's money in the sale of sensational material, and few are trying…

— Linda Harvey

It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?

— Ken Follett

I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of…

— Seth Godin

Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular…

— James Surowiecki

The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor…

— George Bernard Shaw

“The situation is even more lopsided with book sales. If I told you that two authors sold a total of a million copies of…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I honestly thought I probably did sell 100 million books. That doesn't seem out of the ordinary to me.

— Clive Cussler

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

More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.

— M.J. Rose

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

— Fred Allen

[Mark] Twain was a publisher. He published General Grant's Memoirs (a big success) and had a hand in the publishing of many of his…

— Hal Holbrook

“Books exceed authors' lifespan.”

— Toba Beta