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I'm always astonished when I go into Barnes & Noble at the number of people buying books, of course, but also at the variety of books they do buy and the extent to which they are not the big bestsellers.

All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.

Book clubs, both online and in person, have become a large percentage of the reading public, and many of them won't consider reading books in hardcover.

There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.

There are a lot of wonderful books out there that aren't marketed properly, and readers who might love them never even know they exist.

When there are fewer and fewer publishers of scale, it's just not good for authors.

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.