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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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STOCKING A BOOKSTORE
A bookstore needs to stock a minimum of 10,000 books to have any hope of having what people ask for.
Dave Ewan, Wind Chimes Book Exchange, Millville, New Jersey
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CATALOGING A LIBRARY
For a single subject library, a medical library for example, use the Library of Congress cataloging system. For a general interest library, use the Dewey Decimal system.
Denis Smith, high school counselor, Camarillo, California
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SETTING THE PRICE OF A BOOK
When pricing a nonfiction book, estimate the cost of producing the first printing (including royalties). Then set a tentative list price that will allow you to make a 20 percent pretax profit if the first printing sells.
Richard A. Balkin, Coda: Poets and Writers Newsletter
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BUYING A USED BOOK
If a used book store has more than one copy of a book written before 1975, it will be worth your while to check each one. The cover prices will probably differ.
Bruce Reznick, associate professor of mathematics, Urbana, Illinois
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SELLING BOOKS
A book of poetry sells no more than 800 copies, on average.
Scott Parker, data specialist, Beaumont, Texas
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CONSULTING FOR PUBLISHERS
If small publishers contact you, they're usually short on time, money, or knowledge. If they call you more than once, they have boxes of unsold books in their garage. If they insist on hiring you, even if you decline, their partner is on their back about wasting money on the publishing venture.
Cliff Martin, Eugene, Oregon
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MAKING A MOVIE
Only 1 in 50 published novels gets optioned as a movie, and only 1 in 200 gets made into a movie.
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BUYING A GOOD BOOK
If you're considering buying a book, open it at random and read a page. Do this three times. If you haven't stumbled onto a vital part of the story at least once, don't buy the book.
Gene Wolfe, Barrington, Illinois
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ESTIMATING LENGTHS
Most books average 5 letters per word, 10 words per line, and 40 lines per page.
Norman Brenner, Fleetwood, New York
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SIFTING THROUGH BOOK PROPOSALS
Nearly half of all unsolicited proposals for novels will be about disasters.
Walter Pitkin, literary agent, Weston, Connecticut
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