Intelligent perspective on book sales

Posted by Suzy Vitello Soulé on October 9th, 2009 at 01:29 PM | | Tweet

I really like this recent post on the Dystel & Goderich blog.  The continued harangue about the publishing industry’s plunge in the toilet is getting old and tiresome.  Yeah, less people are parting with their cash for hardbacks. The super stars can’t make the B&N cash registers light up the way they used to.  Okay.  But building readership, cultivating a loyal audience should be done in real time, through human interaction. 

Books worth reading are ones readers can immerse themselves in, savor.  The box office bar should not be applied to the print medium, imho, and I wholeheartedly agree with this little piece of wisdom from Miriam’s entry: “What I really object to in today’s article (among other things better left for other blog posts) is the notion that books are like the latest Tom Cruise or Will Smith movie, that opening weekend grosses are more important than overall sales (and an author’s career), and that books are going to find themselves in the remainder bins as quickly as one of those films goes to DVD because they don’t sell out their entire print runs within the allotted 10 days of co-op placement.”