Bookstores Quotes

One thing libraries have learned from bookstores in the last decade is marketing. We`re trying to entice people to read.

There are hardly any left in New York City. The San Francisco Bay Area is very fortunate to still have a lot of independent bookstores.

Don`t patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he`s stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.

Campus bookstores have one advantage. Every fall a brand new crop of freshmen come who go to the college bookstore because they don`t know any better.

(Book publishing has never had the money or the customer base to justify Hollywood`s wall-of-hype approach, but the old publicity paradigm of coaxing reviews and interviews in the book pages is now supplemented, and sometimes supplanted, by all sorts of new marketing schemes. Random House Australia, the local distributor of The Da Vinci Code , is taking its publicity campaigns to shopping malls and street corners to lure readers into bookstores.) There are 200 new titles out there a month, ... We are always looking for new ideas.