Books Quote by Norman Ralph Augustine

Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books.

— Julia Glass

My books don't sell anymore. There are many reasons why they don't sell, but one of the reasons is because people don't read anymore.…

— Norman Finkelstein

The problem is the book business is changing so we're in a difficult moment now and if the business model is changing, I don't…

— Robert Greene

When I talk to booksellers, they tell me how hard it is to hand-sell some of my books because I do keep popping around.

— Matthew Desmond

Selling books is hard to engineer.

— Robin Sloan

The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which…

— William Gibson

I don't like it when I see my books sold cheaply.

— Philip Pullman

You can't write a book and just expect it to sell itself, you know. We're not building that better mousetrap and waiting for the…

— Larry Winget

“Profitable bookstores sell books. Unprofitable book sellers store books.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.

— Peter Sotos

I'm very primitive in terms of economics. The kind of new business in which stock gets more valuable because the company grows, but there…

— William Gibson

A book for cheap success will still be expensive because the way to success is always costly.

— Terry Mark