Litopia After Dark

What the hell is going on with publishing?  Lots of empty opinion, hype, doom saying and general noise.  Cutting through to the signal is difficult – but heck, that’s what LAD does best!   So tonight, we bring you an author, a leading industry expert and a publishing rain-maker (oh yes) to cut through the cacophony and tell us exactly what’s going on.   Hint: it’s not all bad news.   While a quarter of all Americans didn’t read a single book last year (you know who you are) over in Iceland, a million books get checked out of the Reykjavík city library every year... and that’s in a city of only 200,000 residents!  What's more, those frozen Icelandic nutters have a tradition where people buy each other books for Christmas and sit down to read them on Christmas eve often while drinking hot chocolate or alcohol-free christmas ale!  It's called Jolabokaflod.  Our rain-making guest Christopher Norris is bigging it up although frankly, it's