Five million paperbacks is a lot, but I think they'll do fine with this. They'll go after the people who don't want to spend $22.95 on a hardcover, and there are a lot of people like that out there. |
He shook his head and he didn't think the baby was going to live. |
I do think that publishers will spend more time thinking about these things the next time out. |
If you target to women in their 50s and 60s, that's a big, prime, book-buying population. It's well-known in publishing that women buy more books than men. And these books are about sex . That's the perfect storm! They're about sex, they're geared to women and we know women buy books. You wonder, what took them so long to come up with this idea? |
Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold for weirdness - you can't have just a normal childhood - has gone way up. |
It's really kind of shocking. I mean it's not common for publishers to pull a book before there's any sort of legal discussion. |
Random House would have preferred not to have this lawsuit and spend money defending the book and Dan Brown, but they've certainly not been hurt by it. |
So many of the boys from town were in the Army. |
The book industry has been deeply embarrassed and I think that her show pointed up the disconnect between publishing and the real world. |
The doctors were so busy they couldn't take care of them all. |
They wouldn't let me in the room where she was cause they were afraid I'd get it, too. |
To most people he's a novelist, and they don't hold him to the same journalistic standard as they would others. This is not as if Bob Woodward got caught manufacturing quotes from the president. |