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Cory Doctorow's linkblog · @pluralistic
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Last Nov, publishing got *excellent* news: the planned merger of (the largest publisher in the history of human civilization) with its immediate competitor would not be permitted, thanks to the 's deftly argued case against the deal:

pluralistic.net/2022/11/07/ran

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2023/08/08/vam

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Two Supreme Court justices, Justice and Justice , did not recuse themselves from cases that came before the court over the past decade involving a publishing company that paid them in lucrative book deals


cnn.com/2023/05/04/politics/so

#soniasotomayor #neilgorsuch #scotus #penguinrandomhouse

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- Use Library Genesis & Anna's Archive
annasarchive.org
libgen.st

- Help build or support a shadow library that isn't on some white libertarian nonsense
Then people don't have to use the above two

- Destroy the multinational corporate behemoths behind the lawsuit
(Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House)

- Overthrow the illegitimate government which issued the ruling
Fascist police states built on slavery & genocide are bad, actually

#libraries #publishers #books #corporations #monopoly #digitallibraries #censorship #copyright #fairuse #publiccommons #digitalcommons #authors #bookpreservation #history #culture #cdl #internetarchive #libgen #AnnasArchive #Hachette #harpercollins #wiley #penguinrandomhouse

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Book publishers with surging profits struggle to prove Internet Archive hurt sales - Enlarge (credit: feellife | iStock / Getty Images Plus)

Today,... - arstechnica.com/?p=1925368 &son

#dmca #ebooks #policy #Hachette #copyrightact #johnwiley #harpercollins #internetarchive #penguinrandomhouse

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This is a great long read about the lawsuit at the heart of the attempt of Penguin/Random House's owner to buy Simon and Shuster. But it's really about publishing and the book industry more broadly. It's even got a Stephen King cameo.

At Random
by Christian Lorentzen
The business of books and the merger that wasn’t

harpers.org/archive/2023/03/at

#stephenking #writerscommunity #publishing #simonandshuster #penguinrandomhouse #BookIndustry #Books

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I want to take this moment to thank for providing me an advanced copy of the memoir written by the Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry.

This was a great deep read revealing more than I expected, yet restraining on information release. That caution restraint left me wanting more.

#penguinrandomhouse #Spare

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"Bertelsmann said this was 'at his own request and on the best of mutual terms.'

...Dohle’s interim successor will be Nihar Malaviya, currently president and chief operating officer of Penguin Random House US. Malaviya will report to Bertelsmann c.e.o. Thomas Rabe and will be appointed to Bertelsmann’s Group Management Committee (GMC)."

thebookseller.com/news/dohle-s

#publishing #penguinrandomhouse #prh #prhvdoj

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