Veronica Roth

News Corp. executives are as pumped as the most die-hard Harper Lee fans for the release at midnight of Go Set a Watchman, the reclusive 89-year-old author's long-shrouded sequel to her landmark 1960 breakthrough and only published novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.

The global media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch owns HarperCollins, Watchman's publisher, which stands to make a good buck from sales of the preternaturally anticipated book.

As News Corp's legacy newspaper division has struggled over the past few years due to the industry-wide decline in print advertising revenues, the company has benefited from smaller segments where growth

The second installment of Veronica Roth's dystopian trilogy, The Divergent Series: Insurgent, grabbed $52.3 million in its opening weekend at the U.S. box office, just shy of Divergent's $54.6 million debut last year. Clocking $47 million worldwide, Insurgent brings the teen action franchise's total earnings to a plump $388 million so far, with two movies still to come.

Roth, who earned an estimated $17 million last year selling some 7 million books, is but one of many ink spillers whose literary successes have translated into box office hits. Nearly a quarter of the 200 top-grossing films worldwide tallied by Box Office Mojo have been directly adapted from books

Novelist Veronica Roth, just 26 years old, earned $17m (£10.5m) last year thanks to her dystopian young adult trilogy Divergent, making her one of the richest authors in the world, according to Forbes.

The list of the world's top-earning authors was released by Forbes on Monday. Topped by thriller writer James Patterson, it includes three names that have never appeared in the ranking before. Sixth-placed Roth, whose smash-hit stories are set in a world where people are defined and organised according to their dominant personality traits

Inferno by Dan Brown is Amazon’s bestseller of 2013! Yahoo News is reporting that Brown’s thriller topped the charts this year. Other authors who made the bestseller list included Khaled Hosseini, Veronica Roth and Rick Riordan. It’s a pretty vanilla round-up, I think. I haven’t read the Hosseini book, but I have read Brown and [...]

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If you think kids are too young to worry about , consider this: some of our most popular young adult novels fairly shiver with economic anxiety. Take Veronica Roth's , this week's top New York Times Young Adult bestseller and a perennial on the list since its publication in 2011. Divergent's heroine, Beatrice Prior, braves hazing, groping and punching in order to enter the militaristic "faction" that she admires. She endures these dangers willingly because in Roth's dystopian, all-or-nothing Chicago, Beatrice would be thrown into the streets if she fails her initiation.

After decades of decline, independent bookselling has become a growth industry.

For the fourth year in a row, membership has increased in the American Bookseller Association, the independent stores' trade group. According to CEO Oren Teicher, the association now includes 1,632 members — some operating in multiple locations — up 65 from last year. In 2009, there were 1,401 members and strong pessimism in the face of superstore chains, the online power of Amazon.com and the recent financial crisis.