Real-time stats revolutionized journalism – what will they do to books?

It takes the average reader just seven hours to read the final book in Suzanne Collins’s “Hunger Games” trilogy on the Kobo e-reader—about 57 pages an hour. Nearly 18,000 Kindle readers have highlighted the same line from the second book in the series: “Because sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal …

The rise of girl culture – Hunger Games to blow away box office

First Harry Potter, then Twilight, and now Hunger Games. Female authors and female fans are rising. Based on the enormity of tracking for The Hunger Games,  the Lionsgate movie has the potential to score one of the top debuts of all time at the domestic box office. Rarely does a film generate the sort of numbers …