Over at the Times, Jeannette Winterson has a suggestion for publishers: Only publish books that need to be books, because:
People who don’t really read don’t really need books – so let them have Jordan and Becks in lots of other ways. Audio, animated-audio, that is, audio with pictures – is just about right for most celebrity publications. (…)
Too much is being published. It is time to use new technology to slim the bloat. It is no shame to find other formats for publications that should not be books at all.
Only if it spares us from The DaVinci Code.
Who is Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami is the award winning and best selling author of six books.
What books has Laila Lalami written?
Laila has written the novels, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, The Moor's Account, The Other Americans, and The Dream Hotel.
What awards has Laila Lalami won?
Laila Lalami has won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, the Hurston-Write Legacy Award, a Guggenheim a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, and a British Council Fellowship. Her work has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.