[FairWitness]

The above article mentions several liberal authors (e.g., Hillary Clinton, Oprah, Madeline Albright, Toni Morrison), but appears to ignore conservative authors (and their publishers).

Compare to: Book publishers ride wave of conservative readership and People of the book (conservative readers)

[xtorpedoman]

Ayn Rand described this very situation in her writing....

[mewzilla]

Wonder where they got the sales figs for Hillie's book? Simon & Shyster? Limbaugh was saying recently that S&S is claiming they made back Hillie's advance. With accounting like that, no wonder they're laying off people.

[Mamzelle]

Fox (Murdoch) needs to buy and promote a publishing company--one based on what people are reading and what they want to read. S&S is not likely to make back Hillary's advance--so how can they call the book a blockbuster? It isn't just the 8M they have to make back, but actually printing and distribution and promotion costs. Have they even sold (I mean to retail purchasers from retailers, not the stacks of unsold books sitting at B&N) a million copies of Living History?

[DB]

I simply don't have time to read nontechnical books.

[Xenalyte]

Toni Morrison has severe writing deficiencies. I have no idea how that woman came to be regarded as a premier novelist. Her plots are abstruse, her vocabulary is limited, and her characters are utterly unlikable.

[gaspar]

A curious aspect of the book world that is not generally known is that serious works with a limited audience, say economics in Eastern Europe, are being produced in limited editions of 2,000 or less and carry a price tag of $75 up. The publishing houses sell the books to University libraries and to government, do not advertise the works, and come out with a small but tidy profit.

[goodnesswins]

S&S is laying off 75 people? Guess it's so they can SAY they made money off shrillary's "book." Sheesh.