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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

Newsroom.co.nz

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

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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

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

Newsroom.co.nz

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

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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?

Salon

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

Daily Mirror

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

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

Evening Standard

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."

WEKU

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.

Los Angeles Times

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

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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.

The Independent UK

Why Stephen King turned on his own publisher in a battle over the future of the book industry

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

The Independent UK

Judge blocks Penguin Random House from buying rival Simon & Schuster

Horror author Stephen King testified on behalf of the Biden administration in August trial

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The Times of India

Author George RR Martin wanted a different starting point for 'House of the Dragon' series

'Fire Blood' author George RR Martin has said that he had suggested a different point in his novel to start the story for the House of the Dragon series. The author said this during an exclusive interview with fellow fantasy writer David Anthony Durham for Penguin Random House.

Daily Mirror

Prince Harry 'asked friends and ex-girlfriends to contribute to book' but most said no

Prince Harry reached out to his pals and ex-girlfriends over summer to ask them to speak to his ghost-writer J.R. Moehringer, however most of them said no, a source has claimed

Daily Mirror

William and Kate named most popular royals with bad news for Meghan, Harry and Andrew

A survey asked 1,095 British adults to rate senior members of the Royal Family and express their opinion on the Firm as a whole with the Prince and Princess of Wales coming out on top

Daily Mirror

Prince Harry's memoir feared 'sexed up' after publisher rejected first draft

The memoir will see the Duke of Sussex earn £17.5 million in advance of the January 10 release date although reports suggest the first draft of the book was rejected by publisher Penguin Random House

Daily Mirror

'Prince Harry will never spare us his incessant, self-indulgent whingeing'

Somewhere along the line Harry changed his mind about being the spare - it no longer represented freedom and opportunity, it simply meant his elder brother was the star, says Rachael Bletchly

Daily Mirror

William ‘has barely spoken to Harry' since memoir news as Royal Family on ‘tenterhooks'

The bombshell memoir called Spare - a nod to the phrase used to describe Harry and William based on their positions in the line of succession - will be published on January 10

Daily Mirror

Prince Harry's book title's controversial meaning - and why it sets him part from William

The memoir that Prince Harry will release early next year will be called Spare, its publisher has revealed - and there is a reason why it might have been picked as the name of his eagerly-awaited memoir

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