TAN: Best sellers

Mark Line mark at polymathix.com
Sun Dec 11 21:15:00 UTC 2011


Probably.

But that's England, after all, where intellectual pursuits, even avocational ones, are not stigmatized. The 10th best-selling book is _Quantum Universe_ according to that same list.

By comparison, this week's bestsellers in USA Today (a.k.a. The Purveyor of American Culture) are mostly youth pulp, as nearly as I can tell. I'm sure they're popular among most adult Americans since they're likely Flesch-tested to 6th grade or so. 

Isaacson's bio of Steve Jobs is #5 -- something you can leave lying around on your coffee table while you're showing off your new iPhone 4S (and its dead battery).

Still, I guess I might want to hire Diego Marani's publicist.........

-- Mark



On Dec 11, 2011, at 14:56 , Daniel Riaño wrote:

> According to The Guardian's This Week
> Bestsellers<http://www.guardianbookshop.co.uk/BerteShopWeb/home.do>,
> Diego Marani's "New Finnish Grammar" is this week 3rd best selling book in
> England. This is something of a record, isn't it?



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