Sometimes people who sell books are seen as corporate salesmen, and people who sell reading are seen as literacy advocates, but you can't really separate the two.
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I think I'm more marketing- and sales-oriented than others, and the notion of selling books continues to interest me.
I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.
There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.
Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.
I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.
I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.
PR and marketing doesn't sell books. It gets attention for them. It sends readers to bookstores and websites to read a few pages.
The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying.
I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.
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