Their New York bookstores are usually held up as the model of relaxed, accessible book-selling.
The evolution will likely continue, with book-selling companies getting their own e-readers, publishers and media outlets adjusting to the change and new technologies emerging.
As digital books have become a larger part of book-selling revenue, the issue of who owns the digital rights to older titles has become increasingly contentious because many older publishing contracts don't specify them.
An established brand in its own right, Sex and the City is cosmopolitan - its cocktail of choice as well as the lifestyle celebrated in the newspaper column turned best-selling book turned blockbuster television series turned A-list film.
The audio book is the best-selling nonfiction audio in history, according to the website.
So do best-selling book authors, management consultants, business leaders and many others with specific expertise.
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The Casual Vacancy is now the 15th best-selling book of the year so far.
Five years ago, venture capitalist Bill Davidow and I together wrote a best-selling book entitled The Virtual Corporation.
Harry Dent popularized age-wave investing among individual investors with his 1993 best-selling book, The Great Boom Ahead.
As a boy, Lewis said he remembered reading "Helter Skelter, " the best-selling book about the Manson family rampage.
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The best-selling book was later made into a television movie starring Henry Fonda.
His observations became the basis for last year's best-selling book The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists.
They soon discovered the Blue Zones program, based on the best-selling book The Blue Zones, written by Dan Buettner.
At the time of writing, Celebrate was the 98th best-selling book on Amazon.
He later passed some to journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi, who this year released a best-selling book detailing scandals and infighting within the Vatican.
The plot revolves around a reclusive writer and his latest best-selling book.
For example, publisher Little, Brown launched an iPhone app in July that accompanies the latest book Transition of best-selling author Iain Banks.
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Sheryl Sandberg, the Facebook chief operating officer whose best-selling book, "Lean In, " inspired the meeting, would surely have been happy with the turnout.
Milos Vasic, a Belgrade journalist and author of a best-selling book on the Djindjic killing, says he has been impressed by the court.
The complaints are frivolous, claiming Maclean's defamed Canadian Muslims by publishing some writings of Steyn as excerpts from his best-selling book, America Alone.
The movie inspired the best-selling book "Black Hawk Down" by Mark Bowden and an eponymous, Oscar Award-winning movie directed by Ridley Scott.
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Ideas can also exhibit network effects, as the author of any best-selling book or producer of a hit television show will happily tell you.
Based on the best-selling book One Shot from author Lee Childs, Reacher is supposed to be the kind of movie that Cruise excels in.
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Nineteen days after Jobs' death, Walter Isaacson's much-awaited biography of the Apple leader hit stores and immediately became the top-selling book in the country.
Manson, whose gruesome killings inspired the best-selling book "Helter Skelter, " will be up for parole again 15 years from now, when he would be 92.
In the best-selling book, Tomson shares the 12 most important lessons that surfing has taught him about life, offering advice accumulated throughout his illustrious career.
Andrew Ross Sorkin plans to turn his cellphone on silent when his best-selling book Too Big To Fail makes its way to HBO this May.
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In 2007 Nassim Nicholas Taleb created a widely-spread meme and best-selling book on Black Swans, highly unexpected events that carry major scale and impact.
Prior to starting Hearsay, Shih wrote a best-selling book, The Facebook Era, that helped businesses think about how to use social media for sales and marketing.
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Meanwhile, production is under way on another film about Jobs' life, written by Aaron Sorkin ("The Social Network") and based on Walter Isaacson's best-selling book.
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