According to the Penguin blog the bestsellers from the Celebrations collection are all non-fiction (The English, The Classical World, Freakonomics, The Consolations of Philosophy and Letters from America). Why all non-fiction? It’s possible, according to Colin Brush, senior copywriter at Penguin, that the stripey design is deemed too serious for fiction books.
What do you think? Have you bought one of these yet? I know I’m sorely tempted to buy the whole lot just to make my bookshelves look nice… and they are three for two, or £191.76 for the whole set, on the Penguin website!
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