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Rumors of the Death of the Book Greatly Exaggerated, and Other News
By
Sadie Stein
April 10, 2013
On the Shelf
Peter Workman
, “known in the publishing world as a genially offbeat entrepreneur of nonfiction, with an on-base percentage—in publishing terms—worthy of Cooperstown,” has died. Workman hits included
The Preppy Handbook
,
What to Expect When You’re Expecting
, and
The Silver Palate Cookbook
.
Barnes & Noble gets into the self-publishing game with
NOOK Press
.
The death of the book,
like doomsday
, has been predicted since time immemorial.
But: “If reading is going be all digital in fifty years, so be it.”
Tim Waterstone
, founder of the eponymous bookstore chain, is philosophical.
Listen
to John le Carré read from his new novel.
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