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"Wimpy Kid," "Heroes of Olympus" among fall books

(CBS / AP) With millions of e-reader devices sold, while the chain Borders is going out of business, books arriving this fall with a market radically different from just a year ago.

But despite the popularity of electronic books, the title of the season's best-selling may be available only as old. "The Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever", the seventh in a series of tests on Jeff Kinney Greg Heffley schoolboy, arrives in November with a printing company announced the first of more than 6 million copies and, until 'Here, there are no plans for an e-book.

The draw is greater than the combined total of two probable blockbusters: Rick Riordan "Heroes of Olympus" (3 million copies) and Christopher Paolini "Heritage" (2.5 million), the fourth and final book of the cycle fantasy "Heritage". The "Wimpy Kid" series has over 45 million copies in print and the new book has already reached the top 20 on Amazon.com. Salespeople say customers have been pre-order "Cabin Fever" for months.

"They are like the books of the" Harry Potter "in that they appeal to children who do not necessarily enjoy reading," says Peter Glassman, owner of Books of Wonder in New York. "And when you do this, you reach a huge audience."

The e-revolution has been far more for the old and the young.

Those responsible for "Harry Potter" author JK Rowling U.S. publisher, Scholastic Inc., And Kinney publisher, Abrams Books, both say e-selling children's titles are 5 percent or less of the total market, with at least some of these purchases by adults who love Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games " trilogy and other works popular with children.

Glassman, citing the parents are reluctant to allow children to handle the e-readers, said his company was much more affected by the physical books are bought online as electronic books. Michael Jacobs, president and CEO of Abrams, said he is still based on the points of physics, school fairs, independent stores to discount chains like Target. He says Kinney and Abrams are thinking hard about releasing the "Wimpy Kid" series electronically, but that the vast majority of fans prefer paper.

Forays of a Finance Foodie: On Location In Brooklyn: From Mickey ...

Now, On Location Tours has gone into “bridge and tunnel” territory with its Brooklyn TV & Movie Sites Tour . The 3.5-hour tour starts out in front of Capitale restaurant/nightspot (former site of the Bowery Savings Bank) and showcases over 40 of the one-of-a-kind bridges, bistros and brownstones that have been used both under their real names and as fictitious locations on the big and small screens. Each tour given by On Location Tours features actors and comediennes at tour guides, and there are plenty of trivia questions along the way (FYI, our prizes for each question answered correctly on this tour were Charm Blow Pops). The first stop on the tour is Junior’s Cheesecake , where our tour guide, handsome actor and stunt performer Amadeo Fusca, picked up individually-sized portions of the world-famous creamy confection for all tour members. The main neighborhoods that the tours go through are Downtown Brooklyn, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Prospect Park and Brooklyn Heights -- as an added bonus, riders get to see arguably the most breathtaking brownstones on earth! There is enough character in these “nabes” to make one want to immediately move out of typical suburbia pronto!Our two favorite stops on the tour were in Carroll Gardens Café Maybelle it was the site of the bakery Cammareri in Moonstruck (you also get to see Cher's character Loretta Castorina of $ 4 million Brooklyn Heights brownstone near) and the River Café just below the Brooklyn Bridge, which was used for an episode of The Sopranos and offers a breathtaking view of the deck of the ferry near the park (used to Analyze That, The Forgotten, 13 Going On 30 and the Office of adjustment).

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