The creativity distinction seemed right: Iceland has more than its share of writers, poets and musicians, and, in the capital, plenty of Icelandic fashion brands were for sale.
E-books are fast coming to represent a big share of writers' income: on July 27th Amazon said the late Stieg Larsson, author of the bestselling "Millennium Trilogy" had become the first writer to sell 1m copies on its Kindle e-reader, of which it launched a new, cheaper version this week.
Yes, balance is important and so is supporting the arts, which is why our household subscribes to more than our fair share of literary magazines (in part because, between my husband and me, it contains more than its fair share of writers).
The changes will lead to more sharing of writers between magazines within each new division, examples which have already been seen, including a cover story in Time in late September that was written by Andy Serwer, Fortune's managing editor, and Allan Sloan, a columnist at Fortune.
Up until recently, there were very few places to freely share opinions of writers and their publications.
Only accepting 12 students per year, and granting each a generous fellowship, this school has generated more than its fair share of famous writers.
According to a report from the Writers Guild of America West, which represents the lion's share of Hollywood writers, movie residuals were just $121.3 million in 2006, a mere drop in the $3 billion bucket.
"We don't need a study, we need a fair share for writers of the revenue our work generates," said John Bowman, chair of the guild's negotiating committee, in a statement.
The sharing was of writers' talk and of ways of seeing the world, but with a human side, an affection that makes the correspondence both more mundane and more affecting.
Despite the lack of publishing rights to most of their songs, Lennon's estate and McCartney continue to receive their respective shares of the writers' royalties, which together are 33⅓% of total commercial proceeds in the US and which vary elsewhere around the world between 50 and 55%.
For a start plenty of writers share the obsession.
