Andrew Kessler sets up 'monobookist' outlet in New York to promote his study of Nasa's Mars probe, Martian Summer
by Alison Flood
New author? Don't want to compete with the bestselling might of Stephenie Meyer or Stieg Larsson? Then why not try Andrew Kessler's approach, and set up a bookshop that stocks only one title: your own. Kessler, who calls his project "monobookism", opened his shop on Hudson Street in New York last month. It contains 3,000 copies of his book Martian Summer, displayed in "new and noteworthy" sections, under "new in non-fiction", under "science" – and with a sign for the wary, "We have one book but we're NOT scientologists", sitting outside...[continued]
