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It barely sold.
It barely sold any copies.
The painting barely sold.
"Vesu (Vesuvius) 407," a photorealist landscape from 1976 by Gerhard Richter, barely sold.
And yet Yates barely sold any books in his lifetime; even now, recently back in print, they sell only modestly.
But another photograph, Cindy Sherman's "Untitled Film Still #5A," a 1977 image from her best-known series, barely sold.
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Problem: media-buying agencies, which Time Inc depends on, barely sell print media anymore.
(At that time, he was still a struggling young writer with just one barely selling novel to his name).
BladeAbroad questioned whether such authors are "publishing ebooks or 'cashing in'" and Salierei wrote: "I suspect 99% of published ebooks either dont (sic) sell or barely sell".
Even Ford, the biggest-selling American carmaker in South Korea, barely sells enough in a month to fill a multi-storey car park.Cheong In-kyo of South Korea's Inha University says his country could still benefit immensely from the agreement.
He singled out The Collini Case, a legal thriller by Ferdinand von Schirach, one of Germany's top authors, which has sold 29,385 copies – "more than the last John Grisham" – eclipsing some homegrown novels that barely sell a few hundred.
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