Sentence examples for profitable book from inspiring English sources

Lane's priority was to produce a decent - and profitable - book for sixpence.

"I think this could be the most profitable book we ever sold; if we can get kids hooked on a seven-book series, hopefully we could get them hooked on reading for life".

All seven published a number of books, at least three had their works issued in paperback (usually a sign of a profitable book), Randy Roberts twice was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and Walter Lippmann was a leading political commentator of this century.

As Charnes wryly observed, addressing the seminar on Bloom, he is "someone who comes from our ranks and has contemptuously risen above them and has written a best-selling and profitable book.... How dare he make us vulnerable to well-meaning family members who say, 'Who is this Bloom guy?

Fire and Fury has – with 10 days of the month to go – already proved to be the most profitable book ever published in January in the UK, and Wolff and Little, Brown have been laughing all the way to the bank.

The week's best arts and culture reads – including a very profitable book, a plan to read the complete Shakespeare and Martin Amis on his wicked stepmother.

And it was not a highly profitable business, and bank stocks sold cheaply, at book or slightly above or below book.

If publishers cannot look forward to receiving permission fees, why should they continue publishing marginally profitable books at all?

Even highly profitable books cannot be published without the manager's approval.

Growth has come to a halt in Amazon's profitable books, music and video segment, which accounts for nearly 60% of the company's sales, and its other product categories are still losing money.

The true proportion of profitable books may be 1 in 100 or 1 in 1000, it's unknowable and ultimately depends on your definition of terms like "publisher" and even "book". But it is pretty clear that, taking the long view, book publishing is much more about knowledge and ideas and creativity than it is about profit.