<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/90a2a221-ad81-4fd5-b2a6-bd3be2987ee4/2FF974B7-0018-4FC4-AD0D-07FEFCBBD33B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://cheapskate.blogs.time.com/2009/07/01/what-we-buy-more-of-during-a-recession/romance/" href="http://cheapskate.blogs.time.com/2009/07/01/what-we-buy-more-of-during-a-recession/romance/" style="font-size: 11px;">cheapskate.blogs.time.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cheapskate.blogs.time.com/2009/07/01/what-we-buy-more-of-during-a-recession/romance/"><H1 class="entryTitle"><A rev="attachment" href="http://cheapskate.blogs.time.com/2009/07/01/what-we-buy-more-of-during-a-recession/">What We're Buying More of During the Recession</A> - Romance Novels</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cheapskate.blogs.time.com/2009/07/01/what-we-buy-more-of-during-a-recession/romance/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/cheapskate.blogs.time.com/img/A81422D8-38E1-4D3D-972C-B41EE8B83614" alt="Dimitri Vervitsiotis / Getty" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cheapskate.blogs.time.com/2009/07/01/what-we-buy-more-of-during-a-recession/romance/"><P>Amid worrisome times, readers are losing themselves in stories about hunky guys and brave heroines in romance novels, which, as the Times points out, always have <A target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/books/08roma.html">happy endings</A>. While overall book sales are down, revenues for <A target="_blank" href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6656615.html">Harlequin books</A> were up 13.5 percent in the first quarter of 2009. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cheapskate.blogs.time.com/2009/07/01/what-we-buy-more-of-during-a-recession/romance/"><UL class="pagination-story-blogs"> <LI class="next"><A title="Lotteries" class="ft_text_image_link" href="http://cheapskate.blogs.time.com/2009/07/01/what-we-buy-more-of-during-a-recession/lottery/"><SPAN>Next</SPAN></A></LI> <LI class="prev"><A title="Seeds" class="ft_text_image_link" href="http://cheapskate.blogs.time.com/2009/07/01/what-we-buy-more-of-during-a-recession/seeds/"><SPAN>Back</SPAN></A></LI> </UL></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2FF974B7-0018-4FC4-AD0D-07FEFCBBD33B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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