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The article focuses on Scribd, a digital subscription reading and listening platform, that offers a vast library of content, including e-books, magazines, academic papers, and original documents. Topics include it started commissioning original works with Mueller's War by Garrett Graff; the focus had been on nonfiction but it had also published nonfictions; and it is experimenting with releasing more and more titles through third-party distribution.

The article focuses on the publication of paperback best selling fiction and nonfiction books in the U.S. "Eat, Pray, Love," by Elizabeth Gilbert is still the best selling book overall for the week ending January 7, 2008. Berkley launched its new trade paper bestseller, "The Friday Night Knitting Club." A list of paperback books is presented.

The article discusses issues concerning the fabrication of some parts of the book A Million Little Pieces by James Frey. It discusses that the Frey first presented the book as fiction but was published as nonfiction. This paper argues that another truism of publishing is that a good memoir must share many of the traits of a novel. It has to have a narrative and development and denouement.