Hey Penny-an article on the NYT Booklist

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Subject: Hey Penny-an article on the NYT Booklist
Date: 8/16/00 10:30 am  (ET)

http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2000/08/16/bestseller/index.html
Great picture of a big bad Finger of the Times pointing at Our Hero on
his broomstick. The gist of the article is, the 68-year-old book list
debuted its first new offshoot in 16 years and effectively evicted the
Potter books from the prime real estate they had monopolized for more than
20 months. Francesca Lia Block, author of YA crossover classics such as
"Weetzie Bat" and Girl Goddess #9," confesses, "If I were J.K. Rowling,
[being relegated to the children's bestseller list] would really disturb
me because it would say that this book is only for children."
The president of Random House books says even though I think that anything
that draws attention to children's books is great for business, I have
to say that this is really unfair to Scholastic.
And as our own Fearless Leader Penny says, 30 percent of the first three
Harry Potter books were purchased by and for a reader 35 or older. A book
exec is quoted as saying "It would seem to me that if we were tracking
adult bestselling reading behavior, one would say that the book should
be on both lists."
There's a lot more - go to the site to read it!