It's Jonathan Franzen's worst nightmare, and it's according to a major new study.
Today in books and publishing: Reviews are in on Franzen-adapting play; closing Amazon's tax loopholes; only Harry Potter can save Bloomsbury now; telling designers what to read.
Today in books and publishing: ASI lures in writers with stock publishing consultant; Franzen essay to be staged; publisher settlements; Junot Díaz loved Encyclopedia Brown.
Today in books and publishing: Adaptation screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is adapting Lionsgate's next big YA series, Jonathan Franzen's new essay collection is here, and the "weirdos" of World Book Night had a good time giving away literature for nothing.
Today in books: the flawed logic behind Jonathan Franzen's Twitter unease, another Next Harry Potter is crowned, and Michelle Obama's gardening book is now coming out May 29.
Also in books: Former St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa lands a book deal.
Today in publishing and literature: The much delayed Harry Potter Web site now plans to launch in early April, the Harry Ransom Center acquires T.C. Boyle's papers, and what a possible settlement in the e-book pricing antitrust case means for readers.
Today in publishing and literature: Freedom author deems Twitter 'the ultimate irresponsible medium,' new short fiction from Margaret Atwood confirms life in the not-too-distant-future is still bleak, and one of the mystery genre's great forgotten masters could be getting new life on the big screen.
Today in publishing and literature: The company is rumored to be opening a "small boutique" store in Seattle later this year, Jonathan Franzen praises The House of Mirth author in a very long New Yorker essay, and more hand-wringing about the popularity of "genre fiction" on e-readers.
Also: The high costs of publishing literature in translation, Deval Patrick scores another book deal, and James Joyce's 130th birthday is his first with work in the public domain.
Nobody wins when readers battle over e-books and print, another juicy memoir from basketball coach Phil Jackson is in the offing, and the 'S--- Girls Say' parodies have crossed over into the realm of publishing.
The technophobic author has now taken to hating on a technology that enables his career, e-readers.
Literary weddings need to move beyond cupcakes and centerpieces, when HBO wants to make The Corrections in your childhood home, and a horrifying Cthulhu Mythos-themed rug is available now for purchase in Denamrk
Today: Ryan Seacrest wears so many hats he needs a new closet (it's pretty full as is!), HBO makes Brooklyn one very happy borough, and Warner Bros. makes a very bad decision.
Some remarks Franzen made at The New Yorker Festival are still being dissected
Also: hold the phone--Noah Baumbach's adapting 'The Corrections'?
On tiger economies, grown-up candidates, and Franzen on Facebook
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