harperbooks replied to your post: So, one of the downsides of working in any…
We do, but it’s also us responding to the needs/wants of the reader. It’s weird though, how the absence of a person makes one want to devour their backlist, as if to cling to their last breaths before they completely slip away.
That’s very true. And that’s how we pitch it when we discuss it in meetings, ‘it’s due to the increased demand for Y Topic, we’re now reprinting’, not ‘hey so and so died, so we’ll probably sell more books, huzzah for reprints.”
It is a strange thing how much people crave to know something about a famous person once they pass on. But at the same time it does seem like a good quality, an attempt to learn and remember before their memory fades from every day culture.
