{"id":305326,"date":"2017-02-10T19:55:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T19:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2017\/02\/10\/three-percent-123-the-challenges-of-selling-books\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:45:00","slug":"three-percent-123-the-challenges-of-selling-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2017\/02\/10\/three-percent-123-the-challenges-of-selling-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Percent #123: The Challenges of Selling Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s podcast opens with the sad news of Harry Mathews&#8217;s passing, then goes deep on Winter Institute, and a couple really long essays Chad wrote for Three Percent. There&#8217;s a lot that gets unpacked in this episode, from anticipatory lists and market acceleration, to the way that bookstores choose which titles to stock and how comp titles work. <\/p>\n<p>Here are links to specific things covered in this podcast:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Harry Mathews in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/5734\/harry-mathews-the-art-of-fiction-no-191-harry-mathews\"><em>The Paris Review<\/em>;<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>List of Winter Institute <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookweb.org\/wi2017\/winter-institute-programming\">programs<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookweb.org\/wi2017\/winter-institute-author-appearances\">authors;<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=18432\">Reader Selection and Market Acceleration<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=18492\">The Structural Inequality of Comp Titles;<\/a> and,\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2017\/01\/most-anticipated-the-great-2017-book-preview.html\">The Millions Great 2017 Book Preview.<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This week&#8217;s music is &#8220;I&#8217;m Gonna Live Forever (If it Kills Me)&#8221; by William Tyler.<\/p>\n<p>Also, just a reminder, since we changed our podcast feed, you may need to unsubscribe and resubscribe to the <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/three-percent-podcast\/id434696686\">correct feed<\/a> in iTunes.<\/p>\n<p>Or, you can just put this feed link into whichever is your podcast app of choice:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/threepercent.libsyn.com\/rss<\/p>\n<p>As always, feel free to send any and all comments or questions to: threepercentpodcast@gmail.com. <\/p>\n<p>And if you like the podcast, tell a friend and rate us or leave a review on iTunes!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/5073769\/height\/380\/width\/380\/theme\/standard\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/autoplay\/no\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/no-cache\/true\/\" height=\"380\" width=\"380\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s podcast opens with the sad news of Harry Mathews&#8217;s passing, then goes deep on Winter Institute, and a couple really long essays Chad wrote for Three Percent. 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