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How to Sell a Book? Insights from Romania

Management Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy
Volume 7 (2019): Issue 3 (September 2019)
By: Alexandra Zbuchea and  Bogdan Hrib  
Open Access
|Sep 2019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.25019/mdke/7.3.09 | Journal eISSN: 2392-8042 | Journal ISSN: 2286-2668
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Language: English
Page range: 423 - 436
Submitted on: May 1, 2019
Accepted on: Jul 21, 2019
Published on: Sep 30, 2019
Published by: Scoala Nationala de Studii Politice si Administrative
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
book market,
book marketing,
e-newsletter,
publishing houses,
booksellers,
Romania
Related subjects:
Business and economics,
Political economics,
Macroeconomics,
Business management,
Business management, other,
Social sciences,
Sociology,
Labor, trade unions,
Sociology of economy, organizations, and industry

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