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Tag: Book Trade and Publishing
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A Trial Put Publishing’s Inner Workings on Display. What Did We Learn?
The book world can be opaque to outsiders. A case offered an unusual glimpse into it, revealing curiosities about the business and details about book deals.
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Salman Rushdie Attack Recalls Murder of His Japanese Translator
Hitoshi Igarashi, who translated “The Satanic Verses,” was fatally stabbed at a university near Tokyo where he taught Islamic culture. The crime remains unsolved.
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The Independent Bookstore, as Imagined by a Corporate Lobbyist
Bradley Tusk, a Bloomberg and Uber fixer who has opened a new bookstore in downtown Manhattan, thinks running that kind of business can be seen as philanthropy.
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Consolidation of Book Publishers Is a Threat to a Diverse Literary Marketplace
The proposed merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster accelerates industry trends toward the production of best-sellers at the expense of the incubation of new voices or ideas.