E-books Top Hardcover in Revenue for First Time
For the first time, revenue for adult e-books outpaced that of adult hardcover in the first quarter of 2012, USA Today reports citing figures from the Association of American Publishers. “Adult e-books sales were $282.3 million, up 28% from last year. Meanwhile, adult hardcover sales were $229.6 million, up 2.7% from last year,” the report explains.
‘Books That Shaped America’ on Exhibit
The Library of Congress is highlighting its choices for the “Books That Shaped America” in an exhibit on view now until Sept. 29 at the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building in Washington, D.C.
Clarifying that its initial selection of books is “not definitive,” the Library is calling on the public to nominate other choices for “subsequent lists.” “We want to involve all Americans in a conversation about books and how they have affected them,” Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said in a statement.
The current list, which is sure to spark debate about what should and should not be included, features 88 titles ranging widely in their diversity. Comments and suggestions are encouraged at www.loc.gov/bookfest/.
Benjamin Franklin, “Experiments and Observations on Electricity” (1751)
Benjamin Franklin, “Poor Richard Improved” and “The Way to Wealth” (1758)
Thomas Paine, “Common Sense” (1776)
Noah Webster, “A Grammatical Institute of the English Language” (1783)
Anonymous, “The Federalist” (1787)
Anonymous, “A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible” (1788)
Christopher Colles, “A Survey of the Roads of the United States of America” (1789)
Benjamin Franklin, “The Private Life of the Late Benjamin Franklin, LL.D.” (1793)
Amelia Simmons, “American Cookery” (1796)
Anonymous, “New England Primer” (1803)
Meriwether Lewis, “History of the Expedition Under the Command of the Captains Lewis and Clark” (1814)
Washington Irving, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (1820)
William Holmes McGuffey, “McGuffey’s Newly Revised Eclectic Primer” (1836)
Samuel Goodrich, “Peter Parley’s Universal History” (1837)
Frederick Douglass, “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” (1845)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Scarlet Letter” (1850)
Herman Melville, “Moby-Dick”; or, “The Whale” (1851)
Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (1852)
Henry David Thoreau, “Walden;” or, “Life in the Woods” (1854)
Walt Whitman, “Leaves of Grass” (1855)
Louisa May Alcott, “Little Women,” or, “Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy” (1868)
Horatio Alger Jr., “Mark, the Match Boy” (1869)
Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, “The American Woman’s Home” (1869)
Mark Twain, “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1884)
Emily Dickinson, “Poems” (1890)
Stephen Crane, “The Red Badge of Courage” (1895)
L. Frank Baum, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” (1900)
Sarah H. Bradford, “Harriet, the Moses of Her People” (1901)
Jack London, “The Call of the Wild” (1903)
W.E.B. Du Bois, “The Souls of Black Folk” (1903)
Ida Tarbell, “The History of Standard Oil” (1904)
Upton Sinclair, “The Jungle” (1906)
Henry Adams, “The Education of Henry Adams” (1907)
William James, “Pragmatism” (1907)
Zane Grey, “Riders of the Purple Sage” (1912)
Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes” (1914)
William Carlos Williams, “Spring and All” (1923)
F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby” (1925)
Langston Hughes, “The Weary Blues” (1925)
William Faulkner, “The Sound and the Fury” (1929)
Irma Rombauer, “Joy of Cooking” (1931)
Margaret Mitchell, “Gone With the Wind” (1936)
Dale Carnegie, “How to Win Friends and Influence People” (1936)
Zora Neale Hurston, “Their Eyes Were Watching God” (1937)
Federal Writers’ Project, “Idaho: A Guide in Word and Pictures” (1937)
Thornton Wilder, “Our Town: A Play” (1938)
Anonymous, “Alcoholics Anonymous” (1939)
John Steinbeck, “The Grapes of Wrath” (1939)
Ernest Hemingway, “For Whom the Bell Tolls” (1940)
Richard Wright, “Native Son” (1940)
Betty Smith, “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” (1943)
Benjamin A. Botkin, “A Treasury of American Folklore” (1944)
Gwendolyn Brooks, “A Street in Bronzeville” (1945)
Benjamin Spock, “The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care” (1946)
Eugene O’Neill, “The Iceman Cometh” (1946)
Margaret Wise Brown, “Goodnight Moon” (1947)
Tennessee Williams, “A Streetcar Named Desire” (1947)
Alfred C. Kinsey, “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male” (1948)
J.D. Salinger, “The Catcher in the Rye” (1951)
Ralph Ellison, “Invisible Man” (1952)
E.B. White, “Charlotte’s Web” (1952)
Ray Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451” (1953)
Allen Ginsberg, “Howl” (1956)
Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged” (1957)
Dr. Seuss, “The Cat in the Hat” (1957)
Jack Kerouac, “On the Road” (1957)
Harper Lee, “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1960)
Joseph Heller, “Catch-22” (1961)
Robert E. Heinlein, “Stranger in a Strange Land” (1961)
Ezra Jack Keats, “The Snowy Day” (1962)
James Baldwin, “The Fire Next Time” (1963)
Malcolm X and Alex Haley, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” (1965)
Ralph Nader, “Unsafe at Any Speed” (1965)
Truman Capote, “In Cold Blood” (1966)
James D. Watson, “The Double Helix” (1968)
Dee Brown, “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” (1970)
Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, “Our Bodies, Ourselves” (1971)
Carl Sagan, “Cosmos” (1980)
Toni Morrison, “Beloved” (1987)
César Chávez, “The Words of César Chávez” (2002)
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