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&#60;![CDATA[A book can be on the best-seller lists for a couple of weeks and have sold 30,000 copies. Within publishing, thatâ??s a reasonably good showing, but compared to, say, the music or movie or magazine business, where sales are measured in millions, it seems like nothing. When told, for example, that last yearâ??s hit novel, Jonathan Safran Foerâ??s Everything Is Illuminated, sold about 100,000 copies in hardcover, one editor of a huge-circulation monthly gasped and said, "If I only sold 100,000 magazines, Iâ??d get fired." Sara Nelson denkt im New York Observer über die Tatsache nach, dass Verlage selten ihre Verkaufszahlen offenlegen.]]&#62;