The Book Business

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April 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.

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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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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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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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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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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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