Impatience Has Its Reward: Books Are Rolled Out Faster

While the television industry has begun catering to impatient audiences by releasing entire series at once, the book business is upending its traditional timetable by encouraging a kind of binge reading, releasing new works by a single author at an accelerated pace.

    



Arthur Rosenthal, Academic Book Publisher, Dies at 93

Mr. Rosenthal led Basic Books in the 1950s and ’60s and led Harvard University Press to solvency in the 1970s and ’80s.