Today, self-help is a $1 billion
annual business in the United States. It has been around for thousands of
years, and it has been loved and hated for just as long.
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They're relatively cheap to do and
since they're always in demand by universities, but for readers, is there
such a thing as too many translations of classics?
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More News from PP:
If you know a fan of long form narrative
nonfiction of the sort that used to regularly appears in magazines, Byliner
might be the perfect holiday gift.
At the New York Times' Drafts
blog, comedian Steve Macone offered a helpful, humorous glossary of terms for
the modern book business.
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From the Archives:
As India becomes increasingly globalized,
readers are snapping up new spirituality, self-help and diet books — many of
them inspired by ideas from overseas.
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Saturday, November 30, 2013
A Short History of Self-Help, The World's Bestselling Genre
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