New York Times, January 11, 2012
By Julie Bosman

The British melodrama Downton Abbey is already the darling of American public television. Now it has become a marketing tool for booksellers and publishers hoping to tap into the passion of the show's audience. Publishers are convinced that viewers who obsessively tune in to follow the war-torn travails of an aristocratic family and its meddling but loyal servants are also literary types, likely to devour books on subjects the series touches.

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