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The week's biggest-selling New Zealand books, as recorded by the Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list and described by Steve Braunias

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15 fiction books that follow their own rules — and make great gifts

What books make the best gifts? That's not an easy question when it comes to fiction; each novel or story collection sets its own mood, follows its own rules, appeals to its own perfect reader.

Los Angeles Times

Editors have long been publishing's hidden handmaidens – what might we gain if we acknowledged their role?

Editors are almost always unseen and unheard – until something goes wrong. That might be a relatively minor mistake, such as a typo – as in a cookbook that mistakenly listed “people” instead of “pepper” in a recipe. Or it could be more substantial questions about the integrity of a…

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Won't somebody think of Stephen King?

An unusual Justice Department strategy sank the merger of two publishing titans. Here are the real-world effects

Salon

How to get your hands on Prince Harry's explosive memoir 'Spare' for free via Amazon

Spare, which hits store shelves next year, already had its price cut in half ahead of its release, but now you can get your virtual hands on it for absolutely nothing thanks to Black Friday sales

Daily Mirror

This week's bestselling books

The week's biggest-selling New Zealand books, as recorded by the Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list and described by Steve Braunias

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Paramount scraps $2.2bn sale of Simon & Schuster publishing to Penguin

Penguin owner Bertelsmann will not appeal US judge’s ruling that merger would be illegal because it would hit authors’ pay

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There's No Constitutional Right To Own a Pit Bull, Federal Court Says

Plus: A flawed study on marijuana risks, the collapsing publishing-house merger, and more...

Reason

This week's bestselling books

The week's biggest-selling New Zealand books, as recorded by the Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list and described by Steve Braunias

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Stephen L. Carter: Don't cancel Amy Coney Barrett’s book

Kudos to Penguin Random House for sticking to its plan to publish a book by Justice Amy Coney Barrett despite a petition from hundreds of people who work in publishing arguing that the company should cancel the volume due to the author’s vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Tribune News Service

This week's bestselling books

The week's biggest-selling New Zealand books, as recorded by the Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list and described by Steve Braunias

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US Judge lays out case for blocking publishing giants merger

A federal judge has laid out a data-laden case for why she blocked Penguin Random House’s proposed purchase of Simon & Schuster

The Independent UK

Penguin Refuses to Stop Publishing Justice Amy Coney Barrett's Book

The Wall St. J. (Jeffrey Trachtenberg) wrote on Oct. 31 (but I somehow missed it): The book is being published by the Sentinel imprint of Bertelsmann SE's Penguin Random House. "We remain fully committed to publishing authors who, like Justice Barrett, substantively shape today's most important conversations," said Adrian Zackheim,…

Reason

Prince Harry didn't change memoir after Queen's death and chose name himself, says pal

Omid Scobie, an author and friend of Meghan Markle, has claimed that Prince Harry's upcoming memoir Spare was completed five months before the Queen's death and its controversial title was picked by the prince himself

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This week's bestselling books

The week's biggest-selling New Zealand books, as recorded by the Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list and described by Steve Braunias

The Guardian - UK

Independent booksellers unimpressed by Prince Harry memoir being sold at half-price

Spare, which is released in January, has been heavily discounted by larger retailers, leaving smaller bookshops unable to compete

Salon

Authors celebrate antitrust case

CEOs gave bizarre testimony. Stephen King took the stand. Simon & Schuster and Penguin will remain separate

Salon

How Prince Harry made a royal bestseller

Why is Harry telling his story now, who's helping him write it and what might the memoir say about his father?

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Daily Mirror

Prince Harry's tell-all memoir will see him use royals as 'collateral damage', says expert

According to royal expert Jennie Bond, Prince Harry's upcoming book, which is called Spare, appears to have the palace worried after it was described as "raw" and "unflinching" by its publisher

Evening Standard

Penguin’s £1.9bn merger with US books giant is halted by judge

A merger would have ‘impoverished our democracy’, US judge finds

WEKU

Judge blocks Penguin Random House-Simon & Schuster merger

A federal judge blocked Penguin Random House's proposed purchase of Simon & Schuster, saying that the joining of two of the world's biggest publishers could "lessen competition."

Los Angeles Times

Judge blocks Penguin Random House takeover of Simon & Schuster

A federal judge has blocked Penguin Random House’s attempt to swallow its smaller rival, Simon & Schuster, dealing a blow to the world’s largest book publisher’s attempt to become an even bigger giant.

The Guardian - US

US judge blocks $2.2bn Penguin Random House merger

Justice department argued the melding of the publishing house with Simon & Schuster would harm competition and authors’ pay

The Independent UK

Judge blocks Penguin Random House-Simon & Schuster merger

A federal judge has blocked Penguin Random House’s proposed purchase of Simon & Schuster

Axios

Judge blocks $2.2 billion merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster

The DOJ has argued that the merger violates antitrust law and would harm competition.

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