Readers of literary fiction quit books more often and tend skip around between books.
Bethan Marshall, a senior lecturer in English education at King's College London told the magazine the literary merit of picture books was often underestimated, comparing The Very Hungry Caterpillar favourably with another literary hit, Yann Martel's Life of Pi.
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While Amazon's customers punch in their credit card details and wait for the postman's knock, eS-Books' literary surfers will pick up their order from the nearest of the 8, 000 7-Eleven stores nationwide - and pay in cash.
Meanwhile she makes riches out of everything to hand: from the life of the village, its craftsmen and labourers, to the poor weavers of nearby Carlisle, and so on out to the world of books and literary and philosophical societies, all set against the Cumbrian landscape with its Celtic and Roman remains and discoveries of an even stranger fossilised past.
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Science-fiction, romance and crime-fiction fans often read more books more quickly than readers of literary fiction do, and finish most of the books they start.
Though difficult to find, Germs was the book cited most often in the Times Literary Supplement's 2004 International Books of the Year.
Like all Mr Jacob's books, this is a literary marvel, full of wit, erudition and wisdom, and it deals with one of the fundamental questions of human existence.
During four and a half hours of literary sightseeing, millions of dollars worth of books passed through my trembling hands.
They pick these books that touch on different parts of literary culture and popular culture in really interesting ways.
It's a literary treasure trove, said Justin Caldwell, a specialist in books and manuscripts at Sotheby's.
It's a literary treasure trove, said Justin Caldwell, a specialist in books and manuscripts at Sotherby's.
And it's also cresting a wave of enhanced electronic books as one of the most high-profile literary works to take advantage of the new abilities of readers such as Apple's iPad and other tablet computers.
Lord of the Rings is currently packing them in and last week Philip Pullman author of a trilogy of children's books was awarded one of the world's top literary prizes the Whitbread Book of the Year, the first time that a book aimed at children has carried off this particular award, The Amber Spy Glass, part three of the trilogy.
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It was never limited to books, though he was books editor for the Spectator, the New Statesman and the Times Literary Supplement, and an in-house reviewer, from 1983 to 1989, for the New York Times.
Lish, a voluble, eccentric, and literary man, began inviting Carver to his place for lunch and to talk about books.
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His books continued to be read in Europe but in the United States his literary reputation was remaindered by the time his wife, a lesbian to whom he was devoted, died in 1973.
To get his literary career rolling, Bushnell relied on veteran ghostwriter Gene Stone, who also has written other books, including "Forks Over Knives, " under his own name.
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