Awful Quote by Terry Pratchett

My understanding is that a book becomes a best seller only when it is pirated, sold on footpaths and at traffic lights.

— Ravi Subramanian

The higher a book's sales ranks, the better chances it has of being noticed by Amazon's internal recommendations engine.

— Andrew Shaffer

Publishing is no longer simply a matter of picking worthy manuscripts and putting them on offer. It is now as important to market books…

— Olivia Goldsmith

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

I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I can give…

— Amish Tripathi

Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on,…

— Richard Curtis

I think people need to remember that a book isn't done after a few rewrites and a publisher isn't going to buy an 'undone'…

— Jacqueline Woodson

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

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 vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books, and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out…

— George R. R. Martin

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

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.

— Daniel J. Boorstin