Wednesday, January 18, 2006

From fiction to fact -- just like that

The Chicago Tribune reports:

Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble said Tuesday they were making changes to certify Elie Wiesel's "Night" as non-fiction. Barnes & Noble is removing the book from its fiction list, and Amazon is changing the categorization of "Night" and revising a description to make clear it does not consider the book a novel.

Winfrey club prompts new genre: Friction