Gerard Guiu
the afternoon of the day of Sant Jordi, the bookish and predicted lower sales for the year and presaged earlier also that, nevertheless, made headlines and information from the newspapers the day after, would be common to find words like "success" and "brilliant" Phoenician talking about the aspect of the day. After comparing several views, there has been a decline in turnover of around 10% to eye! not a bad figure for the record that was the sales last year, which is falling and bestseller because of this year (both Larsson and about) leaving average 22.13 euros while the 2008 (Zafón, Follet and "The Secret") turn out to have an average price, 25.46, much higher.
No complaints, or should not be any, but it is not realistic, or true-advertising sales as last year or proclaim, as today to the forefront, the book industry "stands as a refuge from the crisis" .
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Javier Cercas's book, "Anatomy of a moment, can become a magnificent example of a charged editorial dictum endowed with reason and an accurate sense of reality: "Luckily we live in the books that are sold and not that read" because it is a text of high standards both what and the how, plots, subplots, twists filled with countless twists and turns of characters who cross without stopping maneuvers, which looks recontramaniobras counterplot and one of the largest Hispanic virtues: the improvisation. Fascinating, in any case, a careful reader and unhurried.
The true winner of the day was not bookish Larsson, nor Gaspar Hernandez even Javier Cercas, the real No. 1 ranking has not been a writer or a publisher, but the newly Bertrand library, located in Rambla de Catalunya, where overcrowding was continuous during morning, noon and evening. The pull effect produced by the novelty of the setting stuck in traffic inside the mega-bookstores. A fascinating oppression.
The relationship established between previous and subsequent sale display can give us the measure of success or failure. Thus, the bump in sales of Stephenie Meyer's new book, "The Host" has been tremendous, spectacular, taking into account the mass of its presence in many stops, certainly leads the ranking of the books returned by booksellers.
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