Dance With Dragons boasts great sales, singlehandedly saves America, the publishing industry in that order
A Dance With Dragons, the fifth book in George R.R. Martin’s acclaimed Song Of Ice And Fire series, has only been out for two days at this point, but it’s already prompting breathless news items that read like movie studios crowing over the latest Transformers movie gross. Not to compare the quality of the two; it’s just that the tone of this New York Times article is weird. It’s all Random House and independent bookstores popping the corks on the champagne and dancing about in the ensuing madness. (Check the box-office-report language about this being the “largest opening” for a Random House book in 2011.)