Crime pays

Here's a marketing truism: want to increase your book sales? Assassinate somebody newsworthy, like the President or Oprah. Guarantee it will increase your sales.

Like the publisher says, "...my opinion about James Frey and whatever he did is beside the point." Business, dear friends, is business. Business is business!

e.e. cummings:
listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go

clipped from www.nytimes.com Book Deal for Writer Who Fabricated Parts of Memoir By MOTOKO RICH James Frey, the author who admitted making up portions of his best-selling memoir “A Million Little Pieces,” has signed a new book deal for his novel “Bright Shiny Morning,” with HarperCollins. The dollar figure was not disclosed. In a news release yesterday, HarperCollins announced that Jonathan Burnham, a publisher, had negotiated the deal for “Bright Shiny Morning.” Minutes before the release went out, the news was reported by The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Burnham said that Mr. Frey was a “media lightning rod” but that “my opinion about James Frey and whatever he did is beside the point.”