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Jul 12, 2005

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Jozef Imrich

A little analogy about pain and struggling is a dangerous thing, but most of us tend to prefer stronger emotions to weaker ones ;-)

'I think the reason gamblers habitually gamble is to lose. Because they know they have to lose, it's the law of averages. I'm not talking about bookies or gentlemen gamblers. I'm talking about the compulsive, neurotic gambler. Pain is what he's searching for. The emotion of pain. It's much greater than the emotion of pleasure. Bigger, larger, stronger. Therefore more interesting.'
-Walter Matthau

Patti Thorn of Rocky Mountain News fame paints a realistic picture of the publishing industry: 'After watching hundreds of books come and go each week - most that will never get publicity of any kind - I would say this: Honey, if you're looking for riches, buy a lottery scratch ticket instead' Writing is easy part; real story is selling your book'
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/entertainment_columnists/article/0,1299,DRMN_84_3914048,00.html

Great stories can stand the heat of any adversity. In fact, they tend to caramelise under the fire of relentless 'market failure'...

David Thayer

On a trip out of town yesterday I found a great indy bookstore and a TPO of Bel Canto. The Perennial edition has a new ISBN, and the clerk had a hard time ringing it up. The book wasn't displayed, I asked for it, but the computer had the book as out of print. The format is still a bit of an orphan for retailers.

Sam

Bel Canto came out first in hardcover, no? But as Seibold points out, it's no longer unthinkable for even a moderately well known writer to be TPO'd (e.g., David Mitchell). But it's worth noting that Cloud Atlas came out in hardcover in the UK first. Then it was TPO'd in the US. Unless my eyes deceived me, I believe I saw Foer's new novel in paperback when I was over in France last month, which means his book took the same course as Mitchell's (hardcover release in home market, TPO'd elsewhere).

booksquare

I like your methodology (though, being a cynic, would naturally wonder if a book with only one copy is the result of brisk sales or dog-dom). And I like your recommendation -- thus my method has increasingly become positive notices from those I trust. I am now going to see if I can trust you...

Sam

Sounds good, Booksquare - but promise to let me know!

Happened to notice today that David Milofsky has an article in the Denver Post on a subject I deal with glancingly above: about how books end up on those front-of-store displays:

http://www.denverpost.com/bookbeat/ci_2776697

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