#seller

I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#any #book #booksellers #com #cost

We were reading a book the other day and laughed out loud when we realised we could of been reading about ourselves or any other bookseller for that matter, we thought you might enjoy the little snippet.... However dull and dingy the shop may have appeared in the eyes of most people, to one person it was the most delightful spot on earth, and that person was none other than the owner of this collection of literature, some of which was remarkable for its antiquity if nothing else. Bartholomew Stranges whole world was in his shop, beyond it he had no ambition, no affection, no desires. He loved his books simply for their own sakes, not for what he got by them, indeed it cost him such a pang to part with them, that if it had not been a necessity he would have refused to do so. Often if anyone wished to purchase a favourite book he would put a large price on it so as to keep it in his own possession, and be willing to wear the scantiest clothes, and live on the plainest food, if by this means he could keep his precious treasures..... From Beckie's Mission or Mr Bartholomew's Little Girl by L Marston ↗

— L. Marston

#love-books #selling-books #food

The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price. ↗

— David Korten

#buyers #comprised #costs #degree #economy

Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain. ↗

— William Vickrey

#increasingly #loss #out #prices #raise

There may be little room for the display of this supreme qualification in the retail book business, but there is room for some. Be enterprising. Get good people about you. Make your shop windows and your shops attractive. The fact that so many young men and women enter the teaching profession shows that there are still some people willing to scrape along on comparatively little money for the pleasure of following an occupation in which they delight. It is as true to-day as it was in Chaucer's time that there is a class of men who "gladly learn and gladly teach," and our college trustees and overseers and rich alumni take advantage of this and expect them to live on wages which an expert chauffeur would regard as insufficient. Any bookshop worthy of survival can offer inducements at least as great as the average school or college. Under pleasant conditions you will meet pleasant people, for the most part, whom you can teach and form whom you may learn something. ↗

— A. Edward Newton

#booksellers #bookstores #business

I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There. ↗

— Blythe Danner

#being there #favorite #favorite films #films #gardener

You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well. ↗

— Anne Rice

#each #know #list #look #new

Readers often tell me after they've read the books, they find it difficult to sum up the plot in a simple way. My response is, "It's a story about the love a father shares for his daughter. All the rest is just filler." - MJ Mancini, on his best-selling trilogy, "Revelation". ↗

— M.J. Mancini

#dan-brown #mancini #revelation #thriller #love

Outside came in '60. The Edge in '61. All three made Gold, but the biggest seller was Inside. ↗

— Shelley Berman

#came #edge #gold #inside #made

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953. ↗

— Leon Uris

#best #book #cry #first #nine