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Bestsellers Propel Big Sales For Random House And Hachette

Posted at 7:07AM Wednesday 01 Sep 2010

Over the past week, two of the largest and most successful publishing houses in the USA demonstrated that when one author becomes a big phenomenon, big sales — and big profits — are the end result. But when that phenomenon starts to wane, the red ink starts to creep into the black.

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