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Twenty Years of
Bestsellers : How has your reading changed in the past 20 years?
From readers shopping in brick-and-mortar bookstores, to the dominance of
game-changing online sellers, to a digital era of e-reading and instant
delivery, the book industry has gone through monumental change. USA Today
looks through 20 years of best-selling books.
Card Won't
Profit from 'Ender's Game': In an effort to head off a
potentially damaging boycott of the sci-fi epic Ender's Game, sources
close to the film's producers have claimed controversial author Orson Scott
Card will not profit from the film's box-office take.
Bookstores Play
the Print Card : A recent standoff in the book business shows
how good old-fashioned, brick-and-mortar bookstores are still trying to wield
their influence in the industry.
Retired Prof
Gives Books on Halloween: "Candy is gone in 30
minutes," retired MU professor Gary Fox, 83, said. "Books will be
passed on and shared."
Why Readers Love
Big Bios : It's aspirational. Says one publisher, we hope
"there’s something about genius [...] that can rub off."
The
Stars Come Out for Roth One thousand New Yorkers gathered earlier this month to hear actors Alec Baldwin, Paul Carlin, and John Rothman read from Philip Roth’s novels at Temple Emanu-El in a tribute arranged by The Library of America, publisher of a now complete nine-volume edition of Roth’s collected works. Pictured from left to right: v-p and publisher of Library of America, Max Rudin; Rothman; president and CEO of Library of America, Cheryl Hurley; and Baldwin.
Picador will debut its Modern Classics line with the November 5 publication of
a repackaged Twenty-Seventh City, Jonathan Franzen's first novel,
complete with an introduction by Franzen specialist and academic Philip
Weinstein. more »
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