Apple Quote by Virginia Postrel

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

It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr

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'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

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

[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell…

— W. P. Kinsella

“After publishing a book, start writing the next. And repeat. Don't get hung up on overmarketing the books, focus more on getting more books…

— Crissi Langwell

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

— Andrew Shaffer

I think it is serious to have good sales. As I learned belatedly, the more you sell, the more publishers pay attention to you,…

— Cynthia Ozick

For any leftover inventory, publishers must have a program to maximize the sale of a book.

— David Dunn

The publishing industry provides a viable channel which enables a wide distribution of books that we're not seeing in any other way. Unfortunately, self-publishing…

— Sylvia Day

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

— Ben Katchor