Beyond attracting new readers, book sales tend to be a good deal for both sides.
42% of Guardian readers book their holidays online compared with 37% of other quality newspaper readers and 27% of the GB population.
To draw participants to the site, Ms. Templer established discussion forums for young adult readers, book vendors and followers of specific genres, as well as writers.
This will make them economically accessible to more readers, book publishers having awakened only relatively recently to the fact that there's a growing black population ravenous for reading material relevant to them.
By that time, "Sorcerer's Stone" had been on the Times's fiction best-seller list for 14 weeks -- well past the three-week record for a young readers' book on the list, set by E. B. White with "Charlotte's Web" in 1952.
The Sight was nominated for the best Middle Readers book in Amazon's Best Books of the Year (2007) and placed sixth out of the ten nominees, with six percent of the total votes.
