Trump Allies Launch Publishing House with an Eye on Upending the Book Industry
Politco
Former Trump campaign aide Sergio Gor and Donald Trump, Jr. have launched Winning Team Publishing, which will publish a coffee-table book of photographs from President Trump’s White House. Industry insiders speculate that Winning Team might also publish Trump’s presidential memoir if he writes one to avoid the “embarrassment” of not getting as large an advance from a Big Five publisher as Barack Obama did after he left office.

How Four Bestselling Authors Connected with Readers, Helped Indie Booksellers, and Beat the Pandemic
Publishers Weekly
Launched as a support group for four published writers in the early days of Covid-19, Friends & Fiction recently celebrated its 100th episode. Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, Kristy Woodson Harvey, and Patti Callahan Henry talk about the show’s rise.

Alice Sebold Apologizes to Man Wrongly Convicted of Raping Her
The New York Times
“Anthony Broadwater spent 16 years in prison after the author identified him as her attacker in an assault she described in her memoir Lucky. Scribner said Tuesday that it would stop distributing the book.”

Who Owns a Recipe? A Plagiarism Claim Has Cookbook Authors Asking
The New York Times
“U.S. copyright law protects all kinds of creative material. Recipe creators, however, are mostly powerless in an age and a business that are all about sharing.”

Anchor Unveils Inaugural Hardcover List
Publishers Weekly
Anchor Books, the oldest trade paperback publisher in the U.S., is launching select hardcover titles for the first time. The hardcover titles will focus on thrillers, mysteries, suspense, and popular “noisy” nonfiction.

Major Publishers Sue Shopify, Alleging Copyright Violations
Inside Higher Education
Macmillan, Cengage, Elsevier, McGraw Hill, and Pearson file suit against Canada’s Shopify, alleging it “plays host, enabler, and protector to a world of digital textbook pirates.” The publishers claim they sent Shopify detailed legal notices nearly every week for four years identifying specific subscribers who committed piracy, but the company failed to address the problem.

The Ironic Twist of Age: What It’s Like to Keep Writing at 91
Literary Hub
“Newer, younger writers keep coming up like chorus girls. But long-lived writers have one obvious advantage over the wunderkinds: more experience of the world,” says author Hilma Wolitzer. A long-time member of the Authors Guild and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature winner, Wolitzer has just published a new short story collection with Bloomsbury.