Yes, there is some good economic news. It barely squeaks by as good news, but I'll take whatever good news I can get. Fiction sales were up ever so slightly, with adult fiction sales up by 0.4 percent. Juvenile fiction (at my house that would be the Twilight series) had a 6.2 percent increase.
I heard at the Myrtle Beach Writer's Conference that the publishing industry slips into recession at a slower rate than other industries because people can't afford to do other things so they turn to reading.
Bad times can bring out good things. Reading, kindness to each other, simpler food, time together and prayer.
Then there's anxiety, depression, worry, foreclosures, skipped medical treatments....
Forget all that and go read a good book. It beats the news any day.
Are you working on something publishable?
Posted by: Steve B | January 16, 2009 at 07:54 AM
I've read some good economic news lately but not much in print media. You mostly read that the internet and blogs.
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