The shortlist
for the Booker
Prize, the U.K.’s
top prize for
fiction, included
two former win-
ners: Margaret
Atwood and
Salman Rushdie.
Atwood was
selected a week
before her book,
The Testaments,
has even been
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PW senior writer Andrew Albanese
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Audible Captions feature will be
decided at the bargaining table,
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Independent booksellers are incensed
that Amazon broke an embargo that
prevented all retailers from selling The
Testaments ahead of its September 10
release date. Amazon said a technical
error resulted in the release of a small
number of copies of Atwood’s novel.
YA author Julia Watts
has been dropped from
the slate of authors par-
ticipating in a teen liter-
ary festival sponsored by
the Knox County (Tenn.)
Public Library after a member of the
organizing committee expressed con-
cerns that she has also written erotica.
Softness in John Wiley’s education
publishing and professional learning
group limited growth in the first quarter,
which ended July 31, to 3% and con-
tributed to an 87% drop in operating
income.
Wanda Jewell will retire as the
executive director of the Southern
Independent Booksellers Alliance in
June 2020. A search for a successor
will begin later this month.
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