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“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

Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes…

— Mark Millar

“stock into a word-of-mouth bestseller. And for the next three years they bought For Dummies books, millions of them.”

— John Wiley and Sons

There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping…

— Donna Tartt

“I want to price my next book and adjust it for the coming hyperinflation. So instead of the normal one dollar price, I’ll charge…

— Jarod Kintz

The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.

— Ben Katchor

“There's no such thing as 'no market'. Some books are just niche orientated that's all.”

— Jo Linsdell

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

“The best marketing you can do for your book is to start writing the next one.”

— Ryan Holiday

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It doesn't matter how many copies of my book I sell. The important thing is that the person reading it likes it.”

— Jennifer Raygoza

“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