Three pieces recently about Christian publishing:
>> Halo to Christian profits in the Telegraph (24 Sept.): Although sales in the UK of Christian books have almost doubled in 10 years, from £60m [$122 million] 10 years ago to £110m [$224 million] now, chain bookstores, like Waterstone’s, “don’t take the category seriously or stock a wide [...]
“‘It is a spectacular fall,’ says Carole Horne, general manager of the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass. ‘One of the best that I’ve seen.’” (Oscar Villalon at SFGate agrees.)
Horne is reported in the Christian Science Monitor to have particularly high hopes for the new Philip Roth book, Exit Ghost, and the new Richard Russo, [...]
ShelfAwareness is a tidy little (week-)daily newsletter of very current information about publishers, bookstores, and books. One section that might be especially useful for librarians and booksellers is ‘Media and Movies,’ a daily listing of films adapted from books that are opening during the week, and a list of author (and book) appearances scheduled for [...]