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Book industry turns page
HILLEL ITALIE | Associated Press
NEW YORK – Book publishing in 2020 was a story of how much an industry can change and how much it can, or wants to, remain the same.
“A lot of what has happened this year – if it were a novel, I would say that it had a little too much plot,” said Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp.
Three narratives ran through the book world for much of the year: an industry pressed to acknowledge that the status quo was unacceptable, an industry offering comfort and enlightenment during traumatic times, and an industry ever more consolidated around the power of Penguin Random House and Amazon.com.
By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer
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On Feb. 13, Oprah Winfrey, left, and American Dirt author Jeanine Cummins appear in Tucson, Ariz., where they taped an Oprah s Book Club show about Cummins controversial book. Cummins novel about Mexican immigrants had been widely cited as a top seller and critical favorite for 2020, but Latino authors and critics alleged that Cummins had reinforced stereotypes about Mexico and Mexican immigrants. (AP Photo/Hillel Italie, File)
Book publishing in 2020 was a story of how much an industry can change and how much it can, or wants to, remain the same.
“A lot of what has happened this year – if it were a novel, I would say that it had a little too much plot,” said Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp.
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HILLEL ITALIE
A pedestrian walks past boxes set up in front of book store Book Soup in West Hollywood, Calif. on Oct. 16 to encourage shoppers to buy from independent book stores instead of online retailers like Amazon. For independent stores and publishers, the pandemic amplified the divide between the industry’s biggest players and everyone else. (AP photo)
NEW YORK Book publishing in 2020 was a story of how much an industry can change and how much it can, or wants to, remain the same.
“A lot of what has happened this year if it were a novel, I would say that it had a little too much plot,” said Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp.
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