Andrea Doering, senior acquisitions editor, Revell Books/Baker Publishing Group, writes in response to David Didriksen's letter on Monday:
I spent 14 years as a buyer for Crossings Book Club, one of the direct-mail clubs run by Direct Brands (Book of the Month, Doubleday, etc). What I learned again and again is that to readers, there is no such thing as a backlist book. There are books they have read, books they want to read, books they will never read. It's all frontlist! Amen to the idea of promoting great books, no matter their publication date.