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Article: Starbucks offers a jolt of serious reading.(between the lines: the inside scoop on what's happening in the publishing industry)(Brief article)
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- Black Issues Book Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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Starbucks's latest book offering is Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 2007). It is the second book chosen for sale in Starbucks's thousands of coffee shops across the land.
The first book was Mitch Albom's For One More Day (Hyperion, September 2006) with 92,000 copies flying off the counters of the chain's affiliates. Albom's novel has been on The New York Times best-seller list for hardcover fiction since its release last fall.
Beah, a 26-year-old Sierra Leone native who lives in New York, gets a 10-city book tour of Starbucks stores. Starbucks said it would donate $2 to the international ...