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An open letter to newspapers and other media outlets from the Authors Guild and the National Book Critics Circle

May 15 2020: From The Washington Post Book Club

You probably know that most news organizations have been walloped by the Great Cessation. Thousands of journalists have been laid off or furloughed, and many publications and web sites are expected to close — or already have. ...

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Bookstore sales plunged 33% in March

May 15 2020: Sales at bookstores tumbled 33.4% in March compared to March 2019, according to preliminary estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Sales this March were $391 million, down from $587 million a year ago.

The entire retail segment, which rarely shows a monthly ...

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Print unit sales post another double digit gain

May 14 2020: Unit sales of print books continue to defy expectations that the coronavirus crisis will lead to a plunge in sales. In fact, just the opposite is occurring. Last week, unit sales of print books had their second consecutive week of double-digit growth over the previous ...

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Walker Books and Candlewick acquired by Trustbridge Global Media

May 13 2020: Walker Books and its global subsidiaries, which include Candlewick Press, have been acquired by Trustbridge Global Media, the global children's content company formed in 2016 by growth equity firm Trustbridge Partners. Prior to the sale, Walker was majority-owned by ...

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S&S CEO Carolyn Reidy dies of a heart attack

May 12 2020: Carolyn Reidy, president and CEO of Simon & Schuster since 2008, died of a heart attack this morning. She was 71.

News of Reidy’s death was delivered to shocked S&S employees by Dennis Eulau, the company's executive v-p of operations and chief financial officer, who ...

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The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months

May 09 2020: When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965 for fifteen months, it turned out very differently from William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman...

...No one noticed the small craft leaving the harbour that evening. Skies were fair; only a ...

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Michael McClure, famed Beat poet who helped launch the SF Renaissance, dead at 87

May 07 2020: Michael McClure, the young poet recruited to put together the famed Six Gallery readings in 1955 that launched the San Francisco Renaissance and the legend of the Beats, died Monday, May 4, at his home in the Oakland hills. He was 87.

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Colson Whitehead: Black author makes Pulitzer Prize history

May 04 2020: US author Colson Whitehead has become only the fourth writer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice.

The African-American author was honored for The Nickel Boys, which chronicles the abuse of black boys at a juvenile reform school in Florida.

Whitehead, ...

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