What ‘Blink’ Begat
Courtesy of Little, Brown and Company.
Take just the quickest glance at stores' nonfiction bookshelves and you can't help but make this snap judgment: Malcolm Gladwell's Blink has reached the tipping point. Single-subject nonfiction is nothing new, but only Gladwell could make an industry standard out of white covers, single-word titles, sans-serif fonts, and vaguely self-help subtitles (See his own new best seller, Outliers.) Since publishers have apparently taken Blink's insta-judgment credo, "judge a book by its cover," to heart, we did some research. Behold, the future (and recent past) in blatant Blink knockoffs.
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