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Two people had come to me insisting that they were unable to buy "O Pioneers!"4 before the enclosed5 reached me.
From the statement sent me in the fall, 195 copies of the book were sold between
April and October, and as there were 168 copies on hand October 1st, they must have
been sold since. It seems to me that when a book sells even
363 copies in nine months of its fourth year, it is distinctly to the author's
disadvantage to have it out of stock at the publishing house. I feel that even
when a house places its emphasis upon best-sellers and specializes in books with
good selling value, that so long as it publishes the
slow sellers at all, it ought to keep them in stock
for the people who want them. A dozen readers like one of the people who came to me
to borrow a book he could not buy, mean quite as much to me as a thousand readers
of
the average sort would mean.