Book Trade and Publishing – Page 13

TikTok Sells A Lot of Books. Now, Its Owner Wants to Publish Them, Too.

As ByteDance launches a publishing company, many in the book world wonder if it will create an uneven playing field by boosting its own authors at the expense of others.

By Elizabeth A. Harris and Alexandra Alter

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Richard Severo, Times Reporter in Internal Clash Over Book, Dies at 90

He challenged a company’s prerogative to transfer an employee and a news organization’s ability to assert publishing rights when a reporter’s articles are used for a book.

By Sam Roberts

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WW Norton, a Defiant Book Publisher, Throws a 100th Anniversary Party

Rita Dove, Michael Lewis and Richard Powers were among the authors who took part in a crowded, swinging party at Cipriani in Midtown Manhattan.

By Alex Vadukul

Book Trade and Publishing Books and Literature Deaths (Obituaries) Korda, Michael New York City Simon & Schuster Inc Snyder, Richard E

Richard E. Snyder, 93, Dies; Drove Simon & Schuster to New Heights

In two decades of leadership at the publishing house, he helped remold a clubby book industry into a diversified and highly profitable corporate enterprise.

By Sam Roberts

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