"Twilight" publisher sees film boosting book sales Reuters - Described in publishing circles as America's answer to Harry Potter, the teen-age vampires of "Twilight" may reach a wider audience when the movie of the book comes out on Friday with the publisher hoping for a surge in book sales.
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'Twilight' brings town a new dawn
Stephenie Meyer had never visited Forks, Wash., when she decided to set her teenage vampire novels there. But their huge success has brought thousands of tourists -- and the town is drinking it up.
When the timber economy that had sustained this wet and distant place for its first hundred years came crashing to earth like an old-growth Douglas fir, people exhausted themselves trying to figure out what the future would hold. What would happen to the little town clinging to the western slope of the rain forest on the Olympic Peninsula with its single grocery store, one traffic light and 3,100 residents?
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