Stieg Larsson

    By Danny King

    | 4:40PM 1/02/2011
    A lot of music fans this year asked for Taylor Swift (pictured) but got Susan Boyle, while some Inception fans probably got Blind Side-ed. Otherwise, people pretty much got what they wanted in 2010, according to an Amazon poll released on Dec. 30.

    By Sarah Weinman

    | 11:49AM 8/31/2010
    Two of the largest publishing houses have demonstrated again that when authors like Stephenie Meyer or Stieg Larsson become big phenomenons, big sales -- and big profits -- are the result.

    By Sarah Weinman

    | 4:41PM 7/19/2010
    Digital books have reached a tipping point. Today Amazon reported that for the first time, sales of Kindle e-books vastly surpassed hardcover books during the last quarter.