Reprints are king in parts of book world

One from The Los Angeles Times: Some publishers find older titles with authors such as Donald E. Westlake, left, appeal to readers who aren’t satisfied by the latest in fiction. Reprints may be how new novels that surely deserve larger audiences — Kate Jennings’ “Moral Hazard,” for instance — may finally find the readership they should have had the first time around. The reprint houses are not going to put the big houses out of business. But it could be that the bigger publishing houses are on their way to losing something more valuable than readers’ money. Their trust.