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“The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store's focus, the diligence and shrewdness of the bookseller, and the size of the business.”

Book Focus Particular Findings Increase Relation Size Stores Clarity Probability Diligence Booksellers Shrewdness

Book:So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance

Source: So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance

“Some of you...have never read a Patrick O'Brian novel. I beseech you to start now. Start with Master and Commander, which should be available in paperback from your nearest bookseller. And if he-or she-does not have a copy, then beat the wretched fellow.”

Ifs Should Doe Novel Masters Beats Fellows Available Copies Wretched Commanders Brian Booksellers

Author:Kevin Myers

“Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow that from your kids!”

Book Kids Easy Cost Six Dollars Seven These Days Bookstores Price Accessibility Bookshops Pricing Booksellers Access To Information Access To Education Buying Books

Author:Jim Rohn

“You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.”

Book Good Book Algorithms Booksellers

Author:John Green

“I always ask the booksellers to look at me and recommend a book; 9 out of 10, they get it right; it’s usually a book about someone dysfunctional. To me bookstores are like brothels of imagination, each book is luring me over going, 'Read me, read me'.”

Looks Book Asks Imagination Look At Me Bookstores Brothels Booksellers

Author:Ruby Wax

“You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret weapon of the bookstore - is that no algorithm will ever understand readers the way that other readers can understand readers.”

Way Book Secret Reader Weapons Good Book Bookstores Algorithms Booksellers

Author:John Green

“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.”

Book Self Internet Cost Publishing Ongoing Surveys Amazon Booksellers

Author:Piers Anthony

“Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that malignant booksellers attach to the backs. These evil white scabs rip off with difficulty, leaving leprous wounds and traces of slime to which adhere the dust and fluff of ages, making me wish for a special gummy hell to which the inventor of these stickers would be condemned.”

Trying Littles Book Would Be Age Evil Wish White Hell Special Difficulty Leaving Wounds Dust Rip Inventor Sticker Slime Fluff Booksellers Scabs Gummies

Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night