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Non-fictionReadingThe Colophon

Emma Smith’s Portable Magic is a conversational meander through the use and abuse of books in history

November 24, 2022November 24, 2022

Smith guides readers through almost six centuries in which the technology of the codex has remained relatively unchanged.

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PublishingThe Colophon

Issues with UTP’s order fulfillment system lead to missed shipments and other concerns during busy holiday selling season

November 23, 2022April 28, 2025

UTP is working on a fix for the system, which needs to be stress tested before going live.

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Paramount Global cancels deal to sell Simon & Schuster to Penguin Random House after antitrust ruling

November 22, 2022December 14, 2022

PRH reiterated its belief that Judge Pan's decision was wrong and that it had intended to appeal.

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CriticismNon-fictionThe Colophon

Tell me a story: Two recent books examine the human impulse toward narrative, for better and worse

November 21, 2022November 22, 2022

"Never trust a storyteller," Gottschall warns, although he also points out that we do, all the time, and it's probably inevitable.

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Strong digital and non-book sales account for largely positive second-quarter results for Indigo

November 21, 2022November 21, 2022

Sales were particularly robust in the stores' general merchandise division.

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CanLitInternational LiteratureThe Colophon

A quartet of novellas demonstrates the quirky versatility of the form

November 18, 2022November 18, 2022

Metafiction, speculative fiction, and fantasy are among the genres represented in these brief and intriguing works.

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BooksellingTechnologyThe Colophon

Large-scale layoffs at Amazon include staff in the books division, says CEO

November 18, 2022November 18, 2022

If Amazon is cutting back on its orders, that is sure to cause headaches for publishers entering the all-important holiday selling season.

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In her debut novel, Manaka Raman-Wilms tackles climate change and far-right radicalization

November 16, 2022November 16, 2022

Paced like a thriller and cast as a chase novel, The Rooftop Garden is a compulsive yet somewhat vexatious read.

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International LiteratureThe ColophonWriters and Writing

In a slim and idiosyncratic mix of essay and memoir, Haruki Murakami muses on the writing life

November 10, 2022November 10, 2022

All of the essays find Murakami writing in a first-person, confessional style about matters that interest him as a novelist.

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Judge Florence Pan finds a “compelling case” that the proposed merger of PRH and S&S would result in “substantial harm” to industry competition

November 9, 2022November 9, 2022

Judge Pan's decision helps protect that part of the publishing ecosystem that does not fall under the umbrella of the Big Five.

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