The Supreme Court rejected that idea, saying once the publisher had sold a book, the new owner could resell it for whatever price he wanted, or even lend it out for free (see: public libraries).
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Home builders trade at book value today but sold for half of book in 1991.
Presently, the premium over book value for the market is 1.5 times, a reasonable valuation, but in 1982 stocks sold down to book value.
Eventually, the book sold more than 1 million copies, with translations available in dozens of languages.
Most every senator and congressman still trains his sights on Goldman Sachs, sold down near book value.
In England, the book sold a mere 7, 000 copies in hard covers and some 50, 000 in paperback.
The book sold more than 30m copies and was translated into 67 languages.
During the financial year HMV closed stores and sold its Waterstones book chain, as well as the entertainment venue Hammersmith Apollo.
Every e-book sold would exist as a single, fully transferable copy.
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With this method, we gain total control of the product, and we make double, triple or even quadruple the amount of money per each book sold.
They can also price their books and receive payments in Canadian dollars, earn up to 70% royalties on each book sold, all while retaining control of their content and copyrights.
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Vaughn, the associate publisher of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, an annual publication considered the authority on comic book pricing, said the Action Comic No. 1 book sold Monday is worth every penny.
First published in 1997, Bushnell's book has sold more than 260, 000 copies since 2001.
The book also sold to Scholastic, in New York, for more than a hundred thousand dollars.
The arrangement guaranteed Apple a 30 percent commission on each e-book it sold.
Presented as fact, his book has sold around 4m copies since it was published in 2006 and is required reading for American soldiers in Afghanistan.
When my book was sold last year, I had no other platform than my Forbes writing, which people were reading because it was Forbes, not me.
The book that sold more than 30 million copies and has been translated into 40 languages argues that men and women have different emotional needs, and that misunderstandings between the sexes are the result.
While Goldstein's book has sold only between 75, 000 and 100, 000 copies, it made him a star veterinarian--magazines, TV shows and celebrity clients like actors Ed Burns and Steven Seagal and chef Wolfgang Puck came calling.
Nonetheless she is very kind to them, and leaves them on the floor overnight when necessary, and lets them off paying for their suppers until the book gets sold, and gradually she adds Tom Wolfe and Gay Talese and Kurt Vonnegut to the list of favoured ones.
The book has since sold millions of copies in hardcover and paperback, says Lane.
Ironically, paperback rights for the book have been sold to Black Swan, an imprint owned by Bertelsmann.
These days, comic books are sold almost exclusively in comic book stores.
Even before its launch, 160, 000 copies of the book had been sold.
His last book The Lost Symbol sold 550, 000 copies in the UK in its first week on sale in 2009.
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