FAKE BESTSELLERS

Here’s all the literary news from around the web you may have missed while you were busy reading….

12 million adult coloring books were sold in 2015. Love this look at the big business behind the craze. Do you color?

Does shopping for books make you sleepy? Chinese bookstores are providing spaces for their customers to nap.

Harper Lee’s will to be sealed, protecting her final secrets.

Skeptical about all the “bestselling” books out there these days? Meet the marketing man who made a fake bestseller…and got a book deal.

Don’t forget to change your clocks this weekend! Check out our suggestions for holding on to valuable reading time during this transition.

And finally, we took a big field trip this week to The Ripped Bodice, a brand new romance only bookstore in Los Angeles, Beautiful, airy, packed with so many of our favorite books, it was everything we wanted it to be. You can see pictures from our trip on Instagram.

Until next week!