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From:Publishers Weekly (Vol. 270, Issue 1)Given all of the attention that the Department of Justice's successful trial to block Penguin Random House's purchase of Simon & Schuster drew, it can be hard to remember what other trends, challenges, and issues...
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From:Publishers Weekly (Vol. 270, Issue 1)While big deals dominated publishing acquisition activity in 2021--led by Clarivate's buying Pro-Quest for $5.3 billion--acquisitions in 2022 were more a mix of private equity and niche purchases. The biggest deal for...
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From:Publishers Weekly (Vol. 270, Issue 1)As the cofounder of BookXcess and Big Bad Wolf, Andrew Yap is the most powerful bookseller you likely don't know. BookXcess was founded in 2009 as a bricks-and-mortar and online bookstore chain in Malaysia. Today,...
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From:Publishers Weekly (Vol. 270, Issue 1)DEAL OF THE WEEK * Penguin Goes to Stark's 'California' In a North American rights agreement, Rachel Stark sold her debut novel to Penguin Press. John Burnham Schwartz bought Perns, California from Susanna Lea...
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From:Publishers Weekly (Vol. 270, Issue 1)January 5, 1889 As 1888 turned to 1889, we reflected on several topics that still resonate today. Looking back at 1888, we speculated that industry sales were negatively impacted by the distraction of the presidential...
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From:Publishers Weekly (Vol. 270, Issue 1)Marvel Comics has offered licensed books to its fans throughout its 80-plus-year history. "We've had some sort of presence in the market always and have some titles that have not been out of print in 50 years," says Sven...
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From:Publishers Weekly (Vol. 270, Issue 1)With the three-year anniversary of the pandemic's official start date just aroundthe corner, the global book industry--at least outside of Asia--has generally returned to business as usual, with tentpole events being...
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From:Publishers Weekly (Vol. 270, Issue 1)When Victor LaValle finds himself in a city he probably won't return to, he picks up a book on its history. About a decade ago, the Shirley Jackson Award-winning author grabbed one such volume called Montana Women...
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From:Publishers Weekly (Vol. 270, Issue 1)Jenny Fran Davis. Holt, $27 (320) ISBN 978-1-250-84313-5 Three Brooklyn couples descend on a Hudson Valley farmhouse over Christmas in Davis's waggish send-up of lesbian culture (after Everything Must Go). The reader's...
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From:Publishers Weekly (Vol. 270, Issue 1)Sarah Penner. Park Row, $28.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7783-8711-4 Penner (The Lost Apothecary) delivers another captivating feminist gothic tale. The story begins with a midnight seance in 1873 Paris, hosted by Vaudeline...
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From:Publishers Weekly (Vol. 270, Issue 1)Alice Winn. Knopf, $29 (400p) ISBN 978-0-593-53456-4 Winn's superb debut chronicles a romance between two English boarding school classmates during WWI. Sidney "Elly" Ellwood is in love with Henry Gaunt, but fears his...
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From:Publishers Weekly (Vol. 270, Issue 1)Sebastian Barry. Viking, $27 (256p) ISBN 978-0-593-29610-3 In the knotty latest from Barry (A Thousand Moons), a retired police officer's solitude is disrupted by a decades-old case involving sexually abusive priests....
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From:Publishers Weekly (Vol. 270, Issue 1)Lucy Jane Bledsoe. Akashic, $28.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-63614-079-7 Two queer people who escaped Christian conversion therapy as teens find their way back to each other as adults in the keenly observed latest from Bledsoe...
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From:Publishers Weekly (Vol. 270, Issue 1)Sabina Murray. Black Cat, $17 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-8021-5748-5 Ghosts haunt this smart if repetitive collection from Murray (The Human Zoo). In "Apartment 4D," a highlight, the 20-something narrator becomes...
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From:Publishers Weekly (Vol. 270, Issue 1)Jess Row. Ecco, $29.99 (592p) ISBN 978-0-06-240063-5 Critic Row's magisterial latest (after the essay collection White Flights) traces the complex dynamics of a New York City family on a geopolitical scale. In 2000,...
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From:Publishers Weekly (Vol. 270, Issue 1)Tara Conklin. Mariner, $27.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-295937-9 Conklin's quirky but undercooked latest (after The Last Romantics) follows the travails of a brokenhearted woman as she returns to her Massachusetts hometown....
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From:Publishers Weekly (Vol. 270, Issue 1)Leila Aboulela. Grove, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8021-6066-9 The action-packed latest from Aboulela (Bird Summons) turns on Sudan's religious civil war in the late 19th century. Akuany is 1 1 when raiders from the north of...
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From:Publishers Weekly (Vol. 270, Issue 1)Nguyln Phan Que Mai. Algonquin, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-1-64375-275-4 Vietnamese writer Nguyen (The Mountains Sing) focuses on "Amerasians," the children of American GIs and Vietnamese women conceived during the Vietnam...