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April 2025

It's oh so quiettttt
It's Coachella time again!
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Hitting the tech billionaires where it hurts
Another interesting couple of stories from the FT, on the debate in Europe about taxing US tech companies.
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There may be trouble ahead
Is Palm Springs "in trouble"?
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Interesting times
Apologies for radio silence - it's been quite the couple of weeks in the bookstore.
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March 2025

Guest Post: The persistence of indie bookstores
Note from Paul: This is a guest post from our friend Catherine Connors, legendary blogger (previously Her Bad Mother, now Holy Doodlebug) and co-author…
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Mark, My Words
Fascinating and outrageous piece by Alex Reisner in The Atlantic today about how Facebook used a gigantic repository of pirated books to train their AI…
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British covers are always better
An ironclad rule in publishing.
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Life, Liberty and the pursuit of hardcovers
Every so often I get an email from one of our publisher reps about a "drop-in" title.
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Radical Retail!
Kim Scott, legendary author of Radical Candor and Radical Respect, just posted the above graphic on Instagram.
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This is very cool
A behind the scenes video from Simon & Schuster's warehouse in Riverside, NJ.
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These unspeakable dipshits
You might recall a couple of days ago, I wrote about Sarah Wynn-Williams' book about her time at Facebook, Careless People.
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