About Quote by James Patterson

Let's look at what the books are that are being produced. More and more they are being made like movies. To sell. They are…

— Frederick Busch

So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books…

— Karen Russell

Why would they have book covers if we aren't supposed to judge the book by them? It makes no sense.

— Ingrid Weir

What seems to sell books is good word-of-mouth, not promotion tours. I'm too old to believe that media promotion of a book really matters.…

— John Updike

Books can create a depth of story, a background of information and ideas, that televison and movies can't. Sure, the television shows may shock,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even…

— Barbara Kruger

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems…

— Thomas Wolfe

As I've indicated, most books go out of print within one year. The same is true of music and film. Commercial culture is sharklike.…

— Lawrence Lessig

It's not even so much about publicity, it's more just letting people know that things are available, because books aren't a flash in the…

— Ian Christe

Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read.

— Michael Korda

A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a…

— Gary Shteyngart