Editor's Note: Tramps Like Us

But this column is not about Bruce Springsteen. I'm using him as an entrée to what I really want to talk about: "Born To Run."

A funny thing's happened around the Book Business watercooler in the last few weeks. Maybe it's because the local baseball team's been out of contention for months, or maybe it's just something in the Schuylkill Punch we drink here every day, but all anyone seems to be able to talk about is a book that was published nearly three and a half years ago, an utterly ancient tome by today's "ebook bestseller of the daypart" era.