The Book Business

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Selections from 'Durable Americana'
(John Danley)
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04.15.2007
 (was 04.16.2006)

Here's a conundrum.  Some say the number of Americans who read books for pleasure is at an all time low, yet the Internet's teeming with literary blogs, and just about everyone who cares about writing has a manuscript of their own stashed in a desk drawer somewhere.  In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, the book business.  Steve Berry talks about writing three books at once and Zadie Smith pays tribute to E.M. Forster.  Also, the Editor-in-Chief of Publisher's Weekly gives us the recipe for a best-seller.

  1. Sara Nelson on the World of Publishing

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    Sara Nelson tells Anne Strainchamps what publishers can do to make a book a best-seller and why the actual number of copies sold is a state secret.

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  2. Steve Berry on Writing Best Sellers

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    Best-selling author Steve Berry tells Jim Fleming he works on three books at once to keep a best-seller in the pipeline.

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  3. Kevin Smokler on Writing Now

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    Kevin Smokler tells Steve Paulson that the Internet is changing the world of letters but he thinks it’s progress. Smokler sees a welcome democratization of literature.

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  4. Larry Baker on Selling Your Own Book

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    Novelist Larry Baker followed up “The Flamingo Rising” with a story called “Athens, America.” He marketed it himself, starting in the mid-West, where the book is set, and ended up selling it in grocery stores.

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  5. Zadie Smith on Forster and Wallace

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    British novelist Zadie Smith tells Steve Paulson why she admires writers who don’t sound just like her. Her book “On Beauty” owes a lot to E.M. Forster...

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