Monday, December 4, 2017

This Year's Bestsellers List - And The Book Sale Numbers, Yikes - Tell Us A Lot About Ourselves

Aside from Hillary Clinton's memoir - which sold well for any kind of book, not just a political book - things are kind of grim, maybe because "leveraging a massive publicity platform is one of the few proven methods of selling a lot of books, but the media has become so balkanized that many best-selling authors are 'celebrities' invisible to most of the nation: YouTube stars, radio hosts, reality TV contestants."



Article source here:Arts Journal

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