Publishing cheer as buyers seek out interesting reads
21 January 2013 Last updated at 00:56 GMT
Source : By Vincent Dowd BBC World Service
It's no surprise that 2012's bestseller lists in Britain and America are dominated by EL James with the Fifty Shades trilogy and by Suzanne Collins with her Hunger Games books.
英國和美國 2012 年的暢銷書排行榜,毫無驚奇的以 EL 詹姆斯格雷的五十道陰影(3冊合售)和蘇珊柯林斯,她的飢餓遊戲系列書籍占主導地位。
Then there are other writers you might expect such as JK Rowling (The Casual Vacancy) and Jeff Kinney (the Wimpy Kid stories).
But the inclusion of a handful of less obvious names may cheer those who think publishers and readers no longer value the interesting one-off novel.
Before I Go to Sleep, Gone Girl and Me Before You are intelligent, well-written hits. Their authors all believe internet buzz around a new book is increasingly key to success.
然後還有其他作家如你所期望的JK羅琳(臨時空缺)和傑夫·金尼(遜咖日記)。
但列入了一些少數名不見經傳可以振奮那些認為出版商和讀者不看重那些有趣的一次性小說。
別相信任何人,控制,Me Before You 很棒,寫得很好很有點擊率。這些作者都認為,新書能
在互聯網 如 BUZZ的迴響是成功的關鍵。