Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 14:42:30 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Sam Lubell <samlubell at verizon.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Re: Future Washington Anthology
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

At 01:33 PM 4/3/2004 -0500, Keith wrote:
>Am I missing something?  1386 copies sold in a week means a quarter
>million copies will be sold in 3.5 years.  Not great, but not terrible
>either.  Of course rate of sales will fall off with time, but so what
>if it takes twice as long to sell all the copies?  How much does it
>cost to store a book in a warehouse for a year, anyway?  I would
>imagine it would take decades before the cost of storing a book
>exceeds what the book can eventually be sold for.

Publishing doesn't work that way (see the demise of the backlist).  If the
book doesn't sell it either gets pulped (if paperback) or remaindered and
sold to the Half Off book market.

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