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Article: Fall books include Dan Brown novel
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- September 13, 2009
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NEW YORK -- Just in time for an especially crowded fall, business
seems to be picking up for books.
Or at least declining less.
"I feel most people are cautiously optimistic, now that we seemed
to have turned a corner," says Simon & Schuster Inc. chief executive
officer Carolyn Reidy, who says the past two months have improved
noticeably over a rough first half of 2009. "It's not that we're
back to the extremely strong sales of more than a year ago, but
we're trending upward. After taking our expectations down for so
long, we're finally taking them up."
"Cautious optimism, that's the right phrase," says Jonathan
Burnham, publisher of the Harper imprint of HarperCollins, which had
an ...