Why You Can Recognize a John Grisham Book in an Airport From Three Gates Away
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 05.29.08 | 3:53 PM ET
Some airport bookstores may have taken steps toward becoming marketplaces of intellectual ideas, but, for the most part, “airport books”—think tomes by John Grisham, Mary Higgins Clark and their ilk—still dominate in terminals around the U.S. Among the reasons why: the books’ covers. The Cleveland Plain Dealer examines why. “Publishers, especially the purveyors of what some derisively refer to as ‘airport books,’ actually want you to judge their books by the covers,” Karen Sandstrom writes. “They’ve arranged the jackets with that very plan in mind.”
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
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