NY Magazine looks at “Book Publishing’s No Good, Very Good Year of Trump” for their best of 2018 package. Fortunately, PW debated making Donald Trump their “person of the year,” they report, but realized that would be a mistake: “We were afraid that no matter how we explained it, if we put him on the cover, it would look like Publishers Weekly had endorsed Trump.” (I can tell you now that here at PL we’ll be calling it the Year of the Asterisk, but we won’t explain that for a while.) Holt president and publisher Steve Rubin says he has […]
