Flatiron will publish a major nonfiction book this summer, with the title and author to be announced on June 13. The book is said to have an announced first printing of 1 million copies, with an unusual “worldwide pub date” of July 9 — a Sunday, outside of the typical Tuesday laydowns in the US or Thursday in the UK, which could create challenges for delivery and unveiling of the book. The hardcover has a list price of $45 (and an ebook price of $24.95), and the book seems to be printed in four-color, and is listed as, “Includes 40 […]
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Elizabeth Warren Didn’t Violate First Amendment in Criticism of Amazon, Court Finds
As expected, Senator Elizabeth Warren won a lawsuit brought against her by a publisher and authors who said her letter to Amazon criticizing their book amounted to a First Amendment violation. In 2021, Warren wrote a letter to Amazon claiming that Joseph Mercola and Ronnie Cummins’s THE TRUTH ABOUT COVID-19 included vaccine misinformation and calling out the retailer’s algorithms that allowed the book to show up at the top of search results. The authors, along with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr (who wrote the foreword) and publisher Chelsea Green, sued Warren, arguing that her letter infringed on their First Amendment rights […]
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Distribution: Paperblanks and Chronicle
Ireland-based Paperblanks will distribute their products in the US and Canada through Chronicle Books, starting July 1. (Paperblanks was purchased by Hachette UK in 2022, and Chronicle uses Hachette Book Group in the US for fulfillment.)
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