Vladimir Nabokov

One reader created a massive chart collecting and comparing the top 100 books mentioned across eleven different top 100 lists. Joseph Heller, Vladimir Nabokov and  F. Scott Fitzgerald led the rankings, appearing on ten out of the eleven lists.

(Press Release) SEATTLE, July 22, 2010—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that The Wylie Agency is publishing 20 books from some of literature’s most influential authors through its new Odyssey Editions imprint (www.odysseyeditions.com) and making them available for sale exclusively in the Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore).

Book businesspeople are about to make the same mistake that has devastated the music and newspaper industries: worrying about whether a new digital format will cannibalize their traditional business rather than focusing on how to make the new format more competitive with other digital media.