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SELLING BOOKS
Ten percent of bookstore customers buy 90 percent of the books. Ten percent never buy anything.
Dave Ewan, Wind Chimes Book Exchange, Millville, New Jersey
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Current Rating: 5.7 out of 10 based on 24 reviews
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LIGHTING A BOOKSTORE
One continuous strip of fluorescent tube eight feet high above the center of the aisle is enough light for a bookstore.
Dave Ewan, Wind Chimes Book Exchange, Millville, New Jersey
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Current Rating: 4.9 out of 10 based on 23 reviews
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STOCKING A BOOKSTORE
If you stock six of any bookstore item, you'll sell three in one week, two more in one month, and still have the last one when you retire.
Dave Ewan, Wind Chimes Book Exchange, Millville, New Jersey
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Current Rating: 5 out of 10 based on 21 reviews
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LOOKING AT BOOKS IN BOULDER
In any batch of fiction books, there will be more books by authors whose last names begin with "M" than any other letter. "S" will be second.
Ellen Klaver, musician, Boulder, Colorado
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Current Rating: 4.1 out of 10 based on 19 reviews
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WRITING A BLURB
It takes 4 times as long to write an effective book jacket blurb that is 5 words long as it does to write one 30 words long. But the shorter copy is 7 times better.
Walter Pitkin, literary agent, Weston, Connecticut
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Current Rating: 5.9 out of 10 based on 22 reviews
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BOOK PUBLISHING
If you ask a publisher if a new book is selling well, and she replies, "It's too soon to tell," - it isn't - and it isn't.
Walter Pitkin, literary agent, Weston, Connecticut
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Current Rating: 6.4 out of 10 based on 22 reviews
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REMEMBERING A BOOK
For every worthwhile book you read, there will be one statement or story you'll remember for a decade or longer.
Scott Parker, data specialist, Beaumont, Texas
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Current Rating: 6.4 out of 10 based on 25 reviews
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FINDING TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
Cheap paperback novels average one typographical error for every ten pages.
Joe Applegate, typo hunter as reported by Fred T. Shuster, Associated Press, Los Angeles, California
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Current Rating: 4.9 out of 10 based on 27 reviews
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PUBLISHING A BOOK
You can hype a book by a famous author to 250,000 copies. After that, success or failure depends upon word of mouth.
John Gill, publisher
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Current Rating: 4.9 out of 10 based on 19 reviews
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SELLING SCIENCE FICTION
Science fiction books with green covers don't sell as well as those with blue covers.
Anonymous publisher
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Current Rating: 4.8 out of 10 based on 20 reviews
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PLANNING AN INDEX
Allowing space for an index in a book is no problem once the type has been set and the indexing has been done. But with a new manuscript, you can only guess. As a rule of thumb, allow 1 page of index to every 40 pages of manuscript with average copy, 1 to 30 for a manuscript with a lot of names or technical terms, 1 to 50 for a book with comparatively few. Check your guess with the editor and use his figure if it differs from yours.
Marshall Lee, bookmaker
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Current Rating: 5.6 out of 10 based on 24 reviews
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