Write Angles » Europe http://elizabethstark.com Elizabeth Stark's Storytelling World Wed, 12 May 2010 20:52:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Good News from Europe for Books and Those Who Love Them http://elizabethstark.com/2009/03/17/good-news-from-europe-for-books-and-those-who-love-them/ http://elizabethstark.com/2009/03/17/good-news-from-europe-for-books-and-those-who-love-them/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:06:23 +0000 admin http://elizabethstark.com/?p=596

The New York Times published an article about how sales of books are up in France and Europe in general.

Two favorite quotes:

“It’s a happy message,” said André Breedt, research and development analyst at Nielsen BookScan, which tracks book sales. “People have been reading and they will keep reading, no matter what happens.”

“Books are a very cheap treat,” said Helen Fraser, managing director of Penguin Books in London. “When you are reading all this dreadful news in the paper, a lovely 500-page novel by Marian Keyes or a classic by Charles Dickens takes you right away from all that.”

What are you reading?

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