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...Thomas E. Ricks Penguin Press; 384 pages...
...Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes By Bryan Burroughs 556 pages; Penguin...
...with is a vast digital slush pile" and "a mass of novels written by 15-year-olds.") Even David Moldawer, the associate editor who helped sign Hutchins to St. Martin's dismisses novel podcasting's growth. "It's a very small community," Moldawer, who now works for Penguin Books, told TIME. "I think the podcasting thing in general has definitely flattened out." Audio-type books require a longer commitment than reading a book, he adds, and sifting the wheat from the chaff is a time-consuming process...
Daniel Suarez, a software consultant in Los Angeles, sent his techno-thriller Daemon to 48 literary agents. No go. So he self-published instead. Bit by bit, bloggers got behind Daemon. Eventually Penguin noticed and bought it and a sequel for a sum in the high six figures. "I really see a future in doing that," Suarez says, "where agencies would monitor the performance of self-published books, in a sort of Darwinian selection process, and see what bubbles to the surface. I think of it as crowd-sourcing the manuscript-submission process...
Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History By Karl Jacoby Penguin, 384 pages...