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."
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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