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...million more than the previous year, and superstores report that their sales are growing 15% a year on average. "The great advantage to the superstores is simply that they buy more titles," says Roger Straus, president of the venerable publishing house Farrar Straus & Giroux. "More books in the best-seller echelon are being sold, and it would be unfair to say that the first-time novelist will be hurt by superstores...
...Kinshasa's Mama Yemo Hospital: "When this sickness hits you, you die in one week. Of course we are all afraid." And around the world, but especially in the U.S., people sensitized to Ebola's horrors by a spate of books and movies-Richard Preston's chilling best seller The Hot Zone; the TV movie Robin Cook's 'Virus'; the film Outbreak, starring Dustin Hoffman-wondered nervously whether the disease would spread out of Africa...
John Grisham has shown a rare gift for creating suspense. But there's no suspense anymore about what happens when a new Grisham novel hits the bookstores. His latest, The Rainmaker (Doubleday; $25.95), has just made its debut at No. 1 on the best-seller list; its first printing of 2.8 million copies set an all-time record. When Hollywood offered a mere $6 million for the movie rights, the author temporarily withdrew his book from the market. After all, he got the same amount for his last movie sale, A Time to Kill, and the only direction Grisham...
Writing even a single best seller is one of the few ways a person can generate riches solely by his own efforts, and Grisham is enjoying it to the fullest. At 40, he has little patience for the rites of celebrity. He gives few interviews and signs books mostly at stores that helped him out when he was driving copies of his first book around the South. He has even moved away, temporarily, from the dream house he built on a 70-acre spread in Oxford, Mississippi, because too many tourists were coming down from Memphis after buying a tour...
...five-year hiatus for writing blockbusters like The Client and The Chamber. The author is taking on the Illinois Central Railroad on behalf of the estate of an employee who was killed while at work. He accepted the case in 1991, just after the publication of his first best seller, The Firm...