The word
"salable" means something that can be sold or is easy to be sold.
Full definition
According to its rules, the author is better off producing more
salable product, which, over time, snowballs into more and more sales, and people discovering and buying your books.
Besides, «a four - bedroom house will be
more salable in the future,» she claims.
All that effort produces a variety
of salable products, from metals to paper fibers.
I've already found great ways to make use of the material from those previous novels I wrote for future books, and I'm sure even if this novel now is
n't salable whatever story comes next will be the same.
Dealers claim that women artists are not
as salable as men, that they are a poor investment.
The benefits to authors in the short - term have been very substantial indeed: a huge and still growing market for self - published books in eBook, print and audio form; the setting of a generous, 70 % royalty benchmark for authors; and easy tools permitting even modestly tech savvy authors to turn their manuscripts
into salable products.
To be good at their jobs, editors need to recognize commercial content, negotiate the many moving parts of a book deal, and help the author craft the
most salable possible book.
Ironically, his lack of commercial success contributed to his artistic independence, freeing him from the temptation of
producing salable pictures according to a proven formula.
His refusal to be «marketed» under his own name effectively stuck a pin of uncertainty in the value of his works as
salable commodities.
Do you feel there are two contemporary art worlds — the conceptual world in its broadest sense, which you see in biennials, and the one that dominates the art fairs, i.e.,
salable works, mostly paintings.
This would be when there is a very difficult property to sell and the potential buyer owns a far more
salable property.
If the church's ministry could become one building block in each person's quest for fulfillment, it would find itself with a very
salable item in a popular contemporary market.
If the ranch house is offered at 90 percent of appraised value and the Tudor at 125 percent, the former is the more
salable listing and the one more likely to result in a sale and commission.
So — «how to save money by embracing solar energy» would clearly be a
very salable article.
After inviting graffiti artists to paint his truck, he parked it outside the exhibition and proceeded to cut the vehicle into pieces, which he offered as
salable objects....»
«There's a IRS [rule] that says even if an asset is only
salable on the black market, it is still an asset and you have to report its fair market value,» said Scroggin.
When productivity increases consistently despite wages remaining stagnant, only those at the top of the economic chain benefit from the production of more
salable goods.
Entire neighborhoods near them are in bad shape, making everything else
less salable.
Left with a budget surplus and the bureaucratic tradition of «use it or lose it,» Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) director Sargent Shriver went fishing for a more
politically salable anti-poverty investment.
Like writing a novel, if you insist on absolute perfection in every aspect, you'll die of old age before getting
something salable out the door.
The new Passat goes on sale in the U.S. in September, while the plant here will begin exporting
salable units to Mexico next month.
But it's clear that with prototypes being built on a regular assembly line, GM has a jump on its competitors and can start building
salable cars once the technology is perfected.
In real estate, it takes a six - month supply of existing
salable inventory to maintain pricing stability.
Your home will be inspected with a trained eye, a comprehensive and fully computerized market value will be prepared, suggestions will be made to increase salability, a realistic and
salable price will be set and then our intense «Award Winning» marketing program will begin.
Chatting with Carol Loomis, Fortune's retired senior editor - at - large, Buffett said that activism is a profitable and «
salable form,» which happens to be attracting big money right now.
But because the connection between the constructions and the expanded field of reference is so unclear, it is easier to see Mr. Gillick's sculptures simply as suave,
eminently salable designer objects.
The son of a furniture dealer who included fun workaday objects like buoys along with his more conventional wares, Bourque - LaFrance roots his paintings in a similar context of quirky domestic space, and his pieces — among the most
easily salable entrants at Sunday, at $ 6,000 to $ 9,000 — were very popular at the fair.
This was an IGCC power plant that was also supposed to produce
commercially salable byproducts, such as fertilizer.
But the sculpture that has constituted the bulk of Mr. Burden's work since the 1980s often looks little like
salable art.
A term policy is rarely considered an asset unless it can be sold in viatical settlement, and normally the insured person would need to have a terminal condition for it to have
salable value.
Item must be packaged and received into our warehouse in exact original
salable condition to receive credit.
Because the movie captures the period so well and argues so convincingly that the Runaways» very existence was revolutionary, it doesn't have to exaggerate the highs and lows to create a more
salable story.
Implementing new systems under the old publishing model can be costly and time - consuming, especially if legacy publishers attempt to hang onto «dead trees» as
salable content to readers.
«If the motivation is there and it's a
good salable listing, I probably call every 10 days for a month and a half or so,» says Dion.
However, Núñez said she likes the idea of «filleting» content,» in some markets called «chunking» it into smaller,
salable parts, as in providing short stories, long - form journalism and academic texts as individual products, allowing readers to create anthologies, or «play lists,» while recognizing that often it is only the larger publishing houses that can make such an investment.
Another existing HUD program attracting new interest is the New Market Tax Credit, which
offers salable credits to help fund development in economically challenged areas.
At every listing presentation, he spends two hours or more educating the seller about what makes the
house salable.
This Trenton company runs recycling programs for major corporations, turning seemingly unrecyclable goods — Brita filters, cigarette butts, Sharpie pens — into finished products or
salable plastics.
Neither they nor the pleasant, articulate Corman have any illusions about the producer - distributor's altruism: for comparatively little outlay, Corman stands to profit from an
immediately salable result and the development of valuable talent; and the filmmakers harbor no resentment over being exploited, since they're getting a marvelous opportunity to strut their stuff — to learn their stuff, for that matter.