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Briefs: DOJ Drops Wolkoff Lawsuit; SLJ Apologizes; More on Bookshop

February 9, 2021
By Sara Grace

The Justice Department dropped its unusual lawsuit against Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, author of Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady. The lawsuit, filed during the final months of Donald Trump’s administration in October 2020, claimed the book violated the author’s White House nondisclosure agreement. A Justice Department official…

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New Books Publishing February 9

February 9, 2021
By Sara Grace

This week’s haul of new fiction includes thrillers from Alex Berenson and CJ Tudor, Cate Quinn’s polygamous twist on the whodoneit, as well as Buzz books selection WE RUN THE TIDES, by Vendela Vida. The nonfiction offering includes the memoir of Kareem Rosser, captain of the first all-black squad to win the National Interscholastic Polo…

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People, Etc.: Maria Guarnaschelli Dies

February 8, 2021
By Erin Somers

Maria Guarnaschelli, 79, “the editor behind the most highly acclaimed and successful cookbooks of our time, including the monumental 1997 revision of The Joy of Cooking and the new classic The Food Lab,” died February 6 of complications of heart disease. During her four-decade book publishing career, most recently at Norton from 2000 to 2017,…

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Briefs

February 8, 2021
By Erin Somers

Awards Max Gross‘s novel The Lost Shtetl won the Association of Jewish Libraries Jewish Fiction Award. Nicole Krauss’s To Be a Man and Colum McCann’s Apeirogon were selected as honor books. Bookselling A number of large UK retailers, including Waterstones, have yet again called on the government to reduce or remove their business rates (a tax on…

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Indigo’s Holiday Quarter Challenged by Store Closures

February 8, 2021
By Sara Grace

On Friday, Indigo announced results for the third quarter ended December 26, 2020, with sales of CA$365 million, a decrease of $18 million or 5 percent. The company said the quarter started off showing real growth, but “revenues were challenged by a significant wave of mandated COVID-19 store closures in Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec during…

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People: Bloomsbury USA Realigns Trade Leadership

February 7, 2021
By Michael Cader

Bloomsbury continues to reorganize its executive ranks, following the hiring of Ian Hudson as managing director of the consumer publishing division earlier this year and the departure of Emma Hopkin at the end of 2020. In a restructuring of the consumer division at Bloomsbury USA, publishing director Cindy Loh and two others will leave at the…

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