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Thank you We sneak in Bestsellers Cinema eyelash what kinds

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of books always seem to be bestsellers So the book

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their perennial bestsellers that are always selling well are written

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by authors like john grisham or patricia cornwell people who

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write these kind of block buster thrillers But books also

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sell well when there's like a media tie in So

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the martian is in theaters and the book version is

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on the new york times best seller list Again the

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same thing happened last year when the imitation game came

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out That movie about alan touring his the book about

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him also started selling really well which is bizarre because

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that's like a pretty academic book that's out on an

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academic press But people are like oh i'm going to

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see the film like maybe the book will be cool

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too what's up with changing the book cover to match

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the movie I think that can be really interesting politically

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or just personally because people can get really attached to

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famous book covers like the great gatsby has a really

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iconic cover like a cityscape and you see a face

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in the sky Everyone knows what it looks like and

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so it feels kind of year to not Have that

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to have a version with leonardo dicaprio Families change anything

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else about the books they are based on Sometimes people

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change the name of a book after the movie version

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comes out So philip k dick novel do androids dream

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of electric sheep Wass changed to blade runner And now

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versions of the book that had been published since then

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are often titled blade runner which is a lot easier

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to remember But it's not the original intent What kinds

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of books always seem to be bestsellers What's up with

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changing the book cover to match the movie Do movies

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change anything else about the books they are based on

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