The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit. Michael Moorcock
It will come as no surprise to those of you in the book trade when I say that although books do not cause cancer, books in general do not sell as well as cigarettes. Gene Wolfe
Paperbacks weren't considered real books in the book trade. Up till then it was just murder mysteries, potboilers, 25-cent pocket books sold in newsstands. When the New York publishers started publishing quality paperbacks, there was no place to buy them. Lawrence Ferlinghetti