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...same logic should help Sandra Bullock in her Oscar search. After 10 weeks in theaters, her sports-inspirational drama, The Blind Side, dropped out of the top 10 (all the way down to 11), but it ain't done yet. Bullock won Best Actress awards from the Golden Globe crowd and, on Jan. 23, the Screen Actors Guild; the former long shot is now the favorite to cop an Oscar (over previous front runner Meryl Streep for Julie & Julia). There's no question that the movie's out-of-nowhere success - a $234 million domestic gross on a modest...
...Harrelson's The Messenger, just $744,200 after 11 weeks in limited release; and Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer's The Last Station, $230,700, second week, limited. All that free publicity, all those talk-show appearances, and barely $20 million worth of tickets among the five. (See the best movies...
Satyajit Sarna didn't like being a corporate lawyer. So the 24-year old from New Delhi quit his job and instead spent months writing a novel about what he knew best: being a corporate lawyer. A decade ago, a literary leap of faith like Sarna's may not have had much chance for a soft landing. But the Indian economy is growing, and so is its appetite for books. So instead of heading to a courtroom this week, Sarna packed his manuscript and headed south to the Jaipur Literature Festival to look for a new job - as an author...
...bring together the interest in Indian writing, which has been growing phenomenally, but is now really propelled by the fact that people are looking to India both as an economic power, and as a place of contemporary writing," says Sanjoy Roy, the producer of the event. (See the best fiction books...
...lack of computerized coordination of sales data among remote bookstores means that publishers rely heavily on newspaper best-seller lists and, perhaps more importantly, on feedback from bookstore owners to divine what kind of book the Indian reader want. There is no equivalent to Oprah Winfrey - whose television show has been launching best-sellers in the U.S. for years - so boosting sales still requires a personal touch. Authors looking to increase their numbers are compelled to visit bookstores large and small to talk up their book. This word-of-mouth method among booksellers still reigns supreme in India. "They...