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DURABLE BOOKS
If you want a replique montre de luxe mouvement Suisse that lasts forever, buy one that's made in Britain. It's more likely to have sewn binding and a durable cover than binding that's glued and with pages falling out.
Dawn Reyes, Writer, Baltimore, MD, US
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Current Rating: 7 out of 10 based on 11 reviews
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READING A GIFT BOOK
Don't read a gift book unless it's one you would have bought yourself. Consider giving it to a friend who's interested in the topic.
Marilyn vos Savant, highest IQ ever recorded, in Bottom Line Personal
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Current Rating: 3.7 out of 10 based on 99 reviews
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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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Current Rating: 4.7 out of 10 based on 21 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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LOOKING FOR INTERESTING BOOKS
To find the most interesting books in a library, look for the shelf where returned books are stored before they are reshelved.
Andy Steinberg, Louisville, Kentucky
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Current Rating: 6.5 out of 10 based on 58 reviews
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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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Current Rating: 4.9 out of 10 based on 23 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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DISCOVERING YOUR INTERESTS
If you're worried that you don't have any interests, browse in the nonfiction section of a library for five minutes. By then a book will catch your eye, whether it's about baking pie crusts or Icelandic crust formation.
Carolyn Lloyd, 15-year-old student,, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Current Rating: 6.6 out of 10 based on 43 reviews
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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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Current Rating: 5.4 out of 10 based on 24 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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SPOTTING A GOOD BOOK
You can tell a book by its cover. The nicer the cover, the better the publisher and the more experienced the author.
Carolyn Lloyd, 15-year-old student, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Current Rating: 3.2 out of 10 based on 57 reviews
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