[Friday Links] The DNA of a Successful Book

J.K. Rowling wins permission to build 2 two-story Hogwarts-style tree houses for her children in the garden of her home.

John Updike's childhood home in Pennsylvania to be restored and turned into a museum.

The DNA of a Successful Book [infographic]

Quarter of US adults are eBook readers.

 James Franco casts As I Lay Dying adaptation.

Benjamin Black books adapted as a TV series for BBC One.

ABC buys Megan Holley-penned adaptation of the book My Life, Deleted.

Taylor Schilling to star in Jenji Kohan’s Netflixseries Orange is the New Black - based on the book by Piper Kerman.

Lisa Joy to adapt her comic Headache as a drama for Fox, produced by Chernin Co.