Federal Judge Blocks Penguin Random House/Simon & Schuster Merger
Will authors benefit? Could a breakup of Amazon’s publishing monopoly be next?
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AUTHOR STUFF
HarperCollins Workers Strike
Union plans a one-day event over pay, diversity commitments
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Kafka Says
A new collection of strange, wise aphorisms
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James Patterson Checks His Privilege
Twitter drags rich bestselling novelist after he claims white males have it tough
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Indie Authors Criticize Policy That Allows Readers To Return Books to Amazon
If you want to get a book for free, go to the public library
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Book Challenges Reach Record Highs
Library association urges people to unite against book bans
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Brandon Sanderson Levels Up
Fantasy author unleashes four novels for fans on an all-time successful Kickstarter
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A Fine Idea
Austin, TX, is the latest public-library district to eliminate late fees for overdue books
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Publishing’s Biggest Scammer Has Got Merch Now
Fans of Filippo Bernadini ironically cash in
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Death of an Iconoclast
What Joan Didion did for American letters
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Literary Twitter: The Year In Review
Every writer embroiled in a 2021 cancellation controversy is actually thriving
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How Authors are Dealing with the Supply-Chain Crisis
Publication delays and books trapped on ships are just part of being a writer today
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The Vivian Awards, Rebranded, Step in it Anyway
An romance-award-winning book blames the Sioux for the Massacre at Wounded Knee
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Cormac McCarthy: Still Not on Twitter
The service verified a fake McCarthy account, not for the first time
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Authors Warn About Content Warnings in Books
Carmen Maria Machado, Silvia Moreno Garcia, and others take to Twitter to decry censorship
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