![]() Kuang), it’s nice to have a varied diet, to be adventurous, to try something different once in a while. Penguin Random House, the largest book publisher in the United States, said in a court filing on Monday that its plan to buy a competitor, Simon & Schuster, would be a boon for the industry. ![]() And even if they sometimes are (case in point: Yellowface by R. The buzzy books aren’t necessarily the best books. These are often the books with the huge marketing budgets that everyone, it seems, is talking about, from our favourite podcast hosts to bookstagrammers to those few newspapers that still have a dedicated book review section.īut what if you want to be a little more original? Some of my favourite reads have been serendipitous finds in secondhand bookshops or those recommended to me just once, randomly, in a bookish forum. Department of Justice is suing Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster to block the companies from completing a merger valued at 2.175 billion. The company continues to work with renowned authors. Provenance: Tom Maschler, titan of British publishing and head of the Jonathan. Twitter: All posts by Claire HandscombeĪs Haruki Murakami famously wrote, “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” And let’s face it, most of the time, most of us are reading books published by the Big Five publishers (Penguin/Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon and Schuster, and Macmillan), not indie publishing companies. In addition to traditional print books, Simon and Schuster also produce audiobooks, e-books, and other digital formats. Lennons second book, A Spaniard in the Works, was published the following year. She also hosts the Brit Lit Podcast, a fortnightly show of news and views from British books and publishing. ![]() She is the author of Unscripted, a novel about a young woman with a celebrity crush and a determined plan, and the editor of Walk With Us: How The West Wing Changed Our Lives. Claire Handscombe moved from Europe to DC in 2012, ostensibly to study for an MFA in Creative Writing, but actually – let’s be honest – because of an obsession with The West Wing.
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