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Authors Guild asks DoJ to stop PRH purchase of S&S

Jan 29 2021: The Authors Guild, along with five other writers’ groups and the nonprofit Open Markets Institute, has sent a letter to the Department of Justice asking the government to block Penguin Random House’s pending acquisition of Simon & Schuster. In asking for the DoJ to step...

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Amanda Gorman's three books will get one million first prints due to overwhelming demand

Jan 29 2021: To meet the demand for Amanda Gorman's unreleased books, her publisher announced it will print one million copies of each of her three titles.

Gorman 22, turned heads and stole hearts when she delivered a powerful inauguration poem at the US Capitol on January 20, ...

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Book sales post another big weekly gain

Jan 28 2021: Book sales are still up following a hot start to 2021. Last week, unit sales of print books jumped 18% over the week ended January 25, 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. In the prior week, unit sales rose nearly 23% over 2020, resulting in a 22% increase in ...

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Monique Roffey wins Costa Book of the Year for The Mermaid of Black Conch

Jan 26 2021: Monique Roffey has won the £30,000 Costa book of the year award for her sixth novel, The Mermaid of Black Conch, which opens as a fisherman on a Caribbean island sees a “barnacled, seaweed-clotted” mermaid raise her head from the sea.

Suzannah Lipscomb, the historian...

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Meet the book club that’s helping to quickly vaccinate its town

Jan 26 2021: The 10 members of the Fabulous Ladies Book Club in Ruidoso, N.M. now meet online, but in recent weeks, they have found a new project that gives them good reason to see one another beyond their screens: They are helping to vaccinate their town.

It all started on Dec. ...

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Netflix developing projects for three Ibram X. Kendi books

Jan 20 2021: Netflix is partnering with author and scholar Ibram X. Kendi to produce three new projects based on his books Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America; Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You; and Antiracist Baby. Kendi will executive ...

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Sourcebooks donates $200,000 in honor of RBG

Jan 20 2021: Sourcebooks has donated a total of $200,000 to six organizations supporting causes championed by the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The one-time donations came from profits on sales of 2021 The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Wall Calendar: Her Words of ...

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Amanda Gorman to read one of her poems at the presidential inauguration

Jan 15 2021: The incoming Biden administration has chosen Amanda Gorman to read one of her poems at the presidential inauguration. She’s an inspired choice for a nation desperate for hope and new energy. In 2017, as a sophomore at Harvard, she was appointed the first National Youth ...

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