“Dog Days,” which was released Monday, is already the best-selling book on Amazon.com, ahead of Dan Brown. Early interest has been so strong that the publisher, Abrams, increased its initial print run to 4 million copies, from 3 million.
The team that brought us The Phantom Tollbooth are back together on a new project for the first time in 49 years. Author Norton Juster and illustrator Jules Feiffer are collaborating on The Odious Ogre w/ a fall 2010 release.
America was once a nation of readers, but now experts warn that reading is in decline as our cultural life moves online. An hour in praise and defense of the book.
Stories of people who believe a book changed their life. It's a romantic notion, and one reason we believe it is because we want to believe our lives can be changed by something so simple as an idea — or a set of ideas contained in a book.