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The Duke of Sussex’s memoir, titled Spare, will be published on January 10, Penguin Random House said

More than 250 literary figures protest against acquisition by Penguin Random House of book by conservative US supreme court justice

Jason Epstein was the publisher and editor of authors such as Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth and Gore Vidal. In his 2001 book, Book Business, he described how the once-relaxed Random House – where authors frequented the publishing office (and sometimes slept there), and where editors had stronger relationships…

Josh Marcus looks into why the horror king—and the Biden administration—are trying to stop the big-money merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster

When Allen Lane set out to make cheap paperbacks for commuters in the 1930s, no one imagined he was building what would become the biggest publishing house we’ve ever seen.

From Dfinity Found. v. N.Y. Times Co., decided today by Judge Lewis Kaplan (S.D.N.Y.): This is a defamation case against The New York Times, two of its reporters, and others. The plaintiff, allegedly a Swiss foundation, moves to recuse the undersigned on the ground that his spouse, whom he married…

The proposed merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster will likely change things for authors and readers - for better or worse

The head of publishing titan Penguin Random House is defending his company’s deal to acquire rival Simon & Schuster against the government’s claim it would thwart competition

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