State Of The Book Biz – Circa 2002

What sold? Familiar names…”John Grisham, James Patterson, Danielle Steel, Stephen King and Mary Higgins Clark had a total of 15 books on last year’s hardcover fiction charts; that’s 16.6% of all available slots in the course of the year.” The five biggest publishers accounted for 77 percent of all books on the Bestseller lists…