This is a bit random, but do publishers like Penguin move a lot of classics each year? Middlemarch’s rank in the Amazon USA list would seem to indicate it sells around ten copies a day. Does that seem reasonable? I thought it seemed a bit low, but my opinion is truly random. There are >12 different paperback editions, so that would seem to argue for popularity…

  • vankirk@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I was an independent bookseller for 7 and 1/2 years. Yes, the classic still sell. And, a bunch of the publishers will reissue the classics with different covers or forwards to get people excited about them. I’m pretty sure Harper Collins did this as well as Penguin classics. Penguin Random House would always have good deals on the Penguin classics, so I could set up a display and give good discounts to the customers.