iBooks
Bestsellers: Grisham Still Leads For the third week in a row, Sycamore Row by John Grisham was the top selling paid book in Apple's iBooks store. The Book Thief, boosted thanks to the film adaptation released November 8, held tight to the #2 spot for the week ended November 18. Also enjoying a windfall from movie buzz is Veronica Roth's Divergent, which landed at #4 -- the adaptation of the book, the first in Roth's trilogy, is due out on March 21. The closer to the series, Allegiant, moved up one spot to #6. more »
US Bookstore Sales Rebound in September
After falling for three consecutive months, bookstore sales rose 6.3% in September, to $1.30 billion, according to preliminary estimates released Wednesday morning by the Census Bureau. Despite the rebound in September, bookstore sales for the first nine months of 2013 were down 1.5%, to $10.10 billion more »
I Was Tina
Brown's Lackey : And here we have yet another excerpt of
Daniel Menaker's My Mistake,
where the former New Yorker editor
struggles to stay afloat under his glamorous new boss.
Writer Thanks
Her Lucky Stars: Eleanor Catton discusses The Luminaries.
Saving
Truckee's Only Bookstore : The story of the Truckee Bookshelf
in California is nearing its
final chapter if it doesn’t see an increase in
sales.
Newly
Discovered O’Connor Journals : A Prayer Journal provides
an unprecedented glimpse at
the young, healthy Flannery O’Connor—whose
entries are by turns self-deprecating and fervently
ambitious, yet always
clever.
Top 10
Unsinkable Characters in Lit : From irritations to ordeals,
the novelist selects the best
books about – and by – those who oppose their
seas of trouble.
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