'DRAGONS,' 'STOLEN LIFE' bolster publishing industry
BY BEN SCHENKEL
McClatchy Newspapers
Memoirs Jaycee Lee Dugard, "A Girl, Interrupted," has been zipping off bookstore shelves since its release in mid-July.
Orders for new copies of Amazon.com to take two months to fill. If the wait is too long, retailers on the website will sell you the tell-all for almost twice the price.
True, used.
This blockbuster of a book, with George RR Martin "A Dance With Dragons", was excited for sale in an industry beset by turmoil.
Just last week, announced the borders of the liquidation of its superstores. Amazon is resisting having to charge its California customers the state sales tax. Ironically, independent bookstores are holding their own in this morphing landscape, despite predictions to the contrary.
Though not exactly "beach reads," with their dark and complex premises, the Dugard and Martin books have transcended expectations for how they would sell and be read and by whom.
They have seemingly little in common, besides their July 12 release date and their status as the top best-sellers nationwide.
"A Stolen Life" (Simon & Schuster, $24.99, 288 pages) is the harrowing account of the 18 years the author spent in captivity and the abuses she endured.
"A Dance With Dragons" (Bantam, $35, 1,040 pages) is the long-awaited fifth part of a fantasy series called "A Song of Ice and Fire." Its narrators are many and its conflicts all too unreal.
Retailers and publishing veterans say the books have attracted readers who wouldn't normally gravitate to those genres or to any book whatsoever.
Jean Pomeroy, a former English teacher from Carmichael, said the HBO miniseries "Game of Thrones," which earned 13 Emmy nominations this year, drew her to the Martin books.
"As a 53-year-old female, I don't exactly fit the target demographic for a likely fan," Pomeroy said.
More than 4,000 pages into the series, Pomeroy said, she remains impressed with the diverse and lifelike characters. She also has to deal with "a load of kidding from my adult kids that I've become a 'total nerd."'
The crossover appeal for "A Stolen Life" also owes itself to a promotional blitz on TV and other media. The week before its release, People magazine ran an excerpt, the ABC network aired an interview with Dugard, and her kidnappers were sentenced.
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