So it is surprising to see that Leonardo DiCaprio has optioned the rights to the hit book Devil in the White City (by Erik Larson) with the intention of playing the role of serial killer H.
"That book hit the New York Times best-seller list, " Mr. Rudin boasted.
He flinched a little when the book hit his chest, then edged his chair back to pick it up off the floor.
Greg Smith, the disillusioned Goldman Sachs employee who left the firm in March with a scorched-earth op-ed in The New York Times, is back in the news as his tell-all book hit shelves last week.
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To help things out, Michelle Dunn has a new book that will hit the market in May: The Guide to Getting Paid.
That book is expected to hit shelves in the U.S. next January.
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The book hadn't even hit the shelves before everyone from every corner started weighing in (check out Time's full coverage here).
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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.
In my book, filing even before Forms 1099 hit can be asking for trouble.
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.
Cripe's book came out five months before Katrina hit New Orleans.
With his remark, Dr. Yunus hit upon one of the main themes of the book: the blurring line between profit and non-profit, business and charity when providing a social good.
Wait for You went on sale in late Feb. and hit the No. 1 spot on the Digital Book World Ebook Best-Seller list on March 10, a first for a self-published book.
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The book's author Mr Rees has also hit out at the review on his Facebook page.
First time author Dorie Clark has hit the ball out of the park with her new book, Reinventing You.
Entitled Fendi Baguette, the book, which is published by Rizzoli, will hit bookstores on June 1.
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Her book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, hit No. 5 on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction list today.
They have an ability to toggle between the quick hit of a blog post and the deep dive of a book or long article.
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Her recent book Going Rogue was a bestseller weeks before it even hit bookstores.
If you read a book called Judo Strategy, they said you have to hit the strongest point when they move.
At 1.5 times book value, Merrill is trading at half the levels it hit in 2000 and 2006.
Once she gets personal, though, in the second half of the book, few of Ms Elsdon-Baker's shots hit their target.
In her 2005 book "Team of Rivals, " the basis for the hit movie "Lincoln, " historian Doris Kearns Goodwin explored how Abraham Lincoln overcame some obstacles of his presidency by giving top posts in his administration to former political opponents, keeping them close by and muting their criticism.
Ali's book, which was published in June, has been a critical hit and commercial bestseller.
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The book, by Times reporter Timothy L. O'Brien, hit store shelves October 26.
He peddled Swanson's Unwritten Rules of Management, a small book that The New York Times described as "something of a cult hit in corporate America, " as his own.
Most recent book contracts, for example, have a minimum units or dollar figure to hit before rights revert to the author.
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