Always wondered how much has piracy affected book sales.
Not much. Book sales have increased throughout most of the 2000s, but e-Books definitely changed everything. Still not much evidence of any impact from piracy though.
The most persistent charge against Flynn's books concerns their sexual politics. More generally, it's true of all Flynn's novels that her women can be reliably predicted to outdo the men in their capacity for moral depravity. Flynn identifies herself as a feminist, but does she worry that she's damaging that cause in the quest for narrative shocks?
GF: Isn't it time to acknowledge the ugly side? I've grown quite weary of the spunky heroines, brave rape victims, soul-searching fashionistas that stock so many books. I particularly mourn the lack of female villains. To me, that puts a very, very small window on what feminism is. Is it really only girl power, and you-go-girl, and empower yourself, and be the best you can be? For me, it's also the ability to have women who are bad characters … the one thing that really frustrates me is this idea that women are innately good, innately nurturing. In literature, they can be dismissably bad – trampy, vampy, bitchy types – but there's still a big pushback against the idea that women can be just pragmatically evil, bad and selfish ...
I don't see it selling more than 1.5 million ww in the end tho I think it can go Platinum in the US if there is a thanksgiving special with Tony and her
I think it can go Platinum in the US if there is a thanksgiving special with Tony and her