'Help' isn't on the way: For publishers, it's nirvana when a hardcover book sells so well you can keep postponing the paperback edition. Kathryn Stockett's debut novel, The Help, which is No. 15 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list, was published in February 2009, and it's still a hardcover hit. The book hit No. 35 on July 23, 2009, and hasn't left the top 50 since. (Nearly 2.6 million copies are in print.) There is no scheduled date for a regular paperback edition "because the hardcover is doing so well," says the book's editor and publisher, Amy Einhorn. There will be a movie tie-in paperback to coincide with the film version, tentatively set to hit screens in fall 2011. It stars Zombieland's Emma Stone as a white girl who befriends a black maid (Doubt's Viola Davis) in 1962 Mississippi.
Of course they've got a movie on the way. Read the full USA Today story here.
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