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It helps if you're street-wise in this business, says book publisher Jack Cole
It helps if you're street-wise in this business, says book publisher Jack Cole

It helps if you're street-wise in this business, says book publisher Jack Cole

Date9/16/1977
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  • It helps if you're street-wise in this business, says book publisher Jack Cole
  • It helps if you're street-wise in this business, says book publisher Jack Cole. To me a book is just like another commodity, like the stationery I sell. Cole's supermarket approach to book-selling in his 141 stores raises the hackles not only of Canadian writers but of other book publishers.
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Original Toronto Star caption: It helps if you're street-wise in this business, says book publisher Jack Cole. To me a book is just like another commodity, like the stationery I sell. Cole's supermarket approach to book-selling in his 141 stores raises the hackles not only of Canadian writers but of other book publishers.
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