Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.

  • -- Thomas Wolfe 托马斯·沃尔夫

出版业是一个非常神秘的行业。很难预测一本书会有什么样的销量或销量,而且广告似乎也没什么用。

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Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.

出版是一门生意。写作可能是一门艺术,但出版,当一切都说了又做了,归根结底还是要靠金钱。

The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.

那些相信广告歌的销售力量的广告商从来没有卖过任何东西。

Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life

宣传、宣传、宣传是我们公共生活中最大的道德因素和力量

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

秘密是一切善良的要素;甚至美德,甚至美丽都是神秘的。

Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions.

教科书出版商甚至懒得在他们的大会上做广告。