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What Do Writers Want? Everything.

Lev Raphael | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Commercial Fiction, Jennifer Weiner, Jodi Picoult, Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Authors, Time Magazine, Best Sellers, Linda Pastan, Books News

Roxane Gay recently pointed out in Salon that all our discussions about whether women writers like best selling Jennifer Weiner don't get enough press...

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Publishing's Renewed Holiday Push With Memoirs, an Enduring Genre

David Tereshchuk | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Holiday Reading, Publishing, Memoirs, Books, Frank Mccourt, E-Books, Malachy McCourt, Mary Karr, Sir Harold Evans, Joan Didion, Condoleezza Rice, James Frey, Ellen Degeneres, Diane Keaton, Best Sellers, Books News

The publishing industry has now fully readied itself for the holidays, with offerings that include yet more aggressively-promoted slices of first-person recollection.

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10 Best-Selling Books That Were Originally Rejected

Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Rejection Letters, Anne of Green Gables, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Twilight, The Diary of Anne Frank, Lolita, Best-Sellers, Books News

From Flavorwire Anyone who has ever wanted to work in a creative field, be it writing, painting or playing music has been told they’d better deve...

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The Week's Hottest Reads: Who Is Number 1?

AP | By The Associated Press | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: James Rollins, Publishers Weekly Bestsellers, The Devil Colony, Janet Evanovich, The Week's Hottest Reads, Against All Enemies, Smokin' Seventeen, David Baldacci, State of Wonder, Tom Clancy, Best Sellers, Books News

-- HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "Smokin' Seventeen" by Janet Evanovich (Bantam)...

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6 Best Spell-Binding Novels of the Decade: A Magical Literary Tour

Lev Raphael | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: London, Thailand, Zombies, Thrillers, Best-Sellers, Vampires, Books, Mysteries, India, Victorian England, Prostitutes, Bangkok, Books News

Books don't have to have wizards to make magic or cast a spell. Over the last decade, these books have haunted and inspired me, made me proud to be a writer, glad to be a reviewer.

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Quick Picks and Must Reads

Naazish YarKhan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Business Books, Best-Sellers, Chicago, Muslim Authors, Sustainable, War, Baghdad, New Books, Iraq, God, Poverty, Christian Reading, Philladelphia, Books News

The holiday season really isn't about relaxing by the fireplace and snuggling into a good book. Nonetheless, if there is a sliver of hope that you'll have some down time, these are the books that you've got to add to your wish list.

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Most Anticipated Summer Reading 2010

The Millions | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Summer Reading, Don Delillo, Ian McEwan, Roberto Bolano, Books, Jonathon Franzen, Reading List, David Mitchell, Salman Rushdie, Reading, Best Sellers, Books News

2010 has already been a strong year for fiction lovers, with new novels by the likes of Joshua Ferris, Don DeLillo, Ian McEwan, Lionel Shriver, Jennif...

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Bestsellers: Publishers Weekly

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Publishers Weekly, The Overton Window, Shit My Dad Says, New Books, Best-Sellers, Books, Bestsellers, Books News

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "The Overton Window" by Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions)...

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Poetry Best Sellers Of 2009

Travis Nichols | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: W.S. Merwin, Wendell Berry, Best-Sellers, Nikki Giovanni, Elizabeth Alexander, Sherman Alexie, Mary Oliver, John Updike, Poetry, Books News

Every week, the Poetry Foundation compiles information from Nielsen Bookscan and puts together lists of the best selling books of poetry. Here are 2009's best selling books of contemporary poetry:

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Not a Simple Price War -- It's a Fight Over What You Get to Read

William Petrocelli | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Predatory Pricing, Mass Merchandisers, Best-Sellers, Independent Bookstores, New Authors, Walmart, Price Wars, Wal-Mart, Book Publishing, Bookselling, Bestsellers, Target, Publishing, Bookstores, Books, Amazon, Books News

What looks like a simple price war between Amazon, Target, and Walmart over a handful of bestsellers is symptomatic of a much deeper problem in the book business.

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Blockbusters and Publishing: The Pareto Principle vs. Netflix

Richard Spilman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Book Publishing, Expresso Book Machine, Technology, Print on Demand, Best-Sellers, Blockbusters, Ebooks, Netflix, Business News

Rather than continuing to be narrow and blockbuster focused, publishing in the not too distant future will have to broaden its scope.

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