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The terrible celebrity biographies of Amazon, not explained

Jan 18 2019: Writing in Vox, Kaitlyn Tiffany dives deep into Amazon Publishing, focusing on "the terrible celebrity biographies of Amazon, not explained"...

It’s a unique sort of suffering to be enamored of a celebrity — particularly if that celebrity has had no books written by ...

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Stephen King persuades newspaper not to scrap its book reviews

Jan 16 2019: The Portland Press Herald, based in Stephen King's home state of Maine, had decided to stop running reviews of local books. Then King expressed dismay, and the paper challenged him to get 100 followers to buy digital subscriptions. His fans did not disappoint him, ...

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Francine du Plessix Gray, searching novelist and journalist, Is dead at 88

Jan 15 2019: Francine du Plessix Gray, a French-American writer who, in her novels and journalism, explored the complexities of cultural identity, the obstacles confronting women seeking their place in the world and her own privileged but anguished early life, died on Sunday in ...

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Authors Guild report finds author earnings continue to decline

Jan 09 2019: In what the Authors Guild is calling the “largest survey of U.S. professional writers ever conducted,” the organization reports the median income published American authors received for all writing-related activity in 2017 was $6,080 in 2017, down from $10,500 in the ...

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Lin-Manuel Miranda & partners buy NYC's Drama Book Shop

Jan 09 2019: Lin-Manuel Miranda and three of his Hamilton collaborators have purchased New York City's beloved Drama Book Shop, which had celebrated its 100th birthday last year but announced in the fall it would close this month because of a large rent increase...

They bought ...

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Sally Rooney, 27, becomes youngest author to win the Costa Novel Award

Jan 08 2019: Irish novelist Sally Rooney, 27, has become the youngest author ever to win the Costa Novel Award, triumphing for her second novel Normal People, a coming-of-age love story the judges said "will electrify any reader."

Celebrating "the most enjoyable books" across ...

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Brian Garfield, award-winning author of more than 70 books, screenwriter and film producer dies aged 79

Jan 04 2019: Brian Garfield, award-winning author, screenwriter and film producer, died December 29. He was 79. After publishing his first title, Range Justice, when he was 18, Garfield went on to write more than 70 books--westerns, mysteries and nonfiction. Nineteen films are based...

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Publishers Weekly buys TheMillions.com for an undisclosed sum

Jan 03 2019: PWxyz, parent company of Publishers Weekly, has acquired the online magazine the Millions, plus its website TheMillions.com, for an undisclosed price.

The Millions was founded in 2003 by Max Magee and offers coverage of books, arts, and culture aimed at a consumer ...

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