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November 3, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Penguin Random House–Simon & Schuster Merger Has Been Blocked. What Now?
While the anti-monopoly movement has a huge victory to celebrate, the publishing industry is left with a sense of impending doom.
June 16, 2021
Alex Shephard
A Trump Memoir Would Be a Huge Seller, but No Major Publisher Wants to Buy It
The big publishing houses routinely push out political books that are less than truthful, but the former president’s lies seem to be a bridge too far.
December 22, 2020
Jo Livingstone
Monopolization Is Killing Art
The pandemic has only accelerated a years-long trend of cultural homogenization—and it is bound to get worse.
November 13, 2020
Alex Shephard
Can Book Publishers Afford to Publish Donald Trump?
A Trump post-presidency memoir would be a mega-bestseller. But is the industry prepared to deal with the fallout?
September 18, 2020
Alex Shephard
Barack Obama’s Memoir Is Set to Be the Biggest Book This Year
The craziest year in publishing industry history just got crazier.
August 12, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
The Women Who Still Can’t Vote
Why the work of the Nineteenth Amendment is far from over
July 22, 2020
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump Has Permanently Changed the Publishing Industry
The business of bookselling is more political and partisan than ever before. Things won’t go back to normal after Trump leaves office.
January 16, 2020
Alex Shephard
Can Amazon Finally Crack the Bestseller Code?
The retail giant is publishing commercial fiction by famous authors. Publishers should be terrified.
April 29, 2019
Alex Shephard
Book Publishers Have a Trump Problem
The rush to release a print version of the Mueller report is the latest example of a desperate industry increasingly addicted to quick takes for fast profit.
July 2, 2018
Alex Shephard
Amazon’s Audiobook Boom
The craze for audio storytelling may be the company's best way to compete with traditional publishers when it comes to creating original content.
April 19, 2017
Alex Shephard
Bill O’Reilly’s publisher is sticking with him.
April 19, 2017
Alex Shephard
Will Bill O’Reilly’s book publisher continue to stand behind him?
November 25, 1956
James T. Farrell
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