First US News & World Report put “bodice rippers” at No. 3 on their list of 10 Recession Winners and now the NYT has a more detailed piece on continuing resilience in the market for romance novels and other genre fiction. Parsing the numbers, though, is a little less clear than the article might indicate. Harlequin–which reported results over a month ago–is cited prominently. But North American sales, excluding the impact of foreign exchange, rose less than 1.5 percent for 2008. (The sharp drop in the Canadian dollar last fall increased the value of the company’s US sales, and as […]