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Buying a rare book doesn’t mean you own the copyright (This week in books)

January 21, 2022 by Nathan Bransford 3 Comments

This week! Books! Some eclectic links for you this chilly week. A group of misguided “Dune-loving cryptocurrency enthusiasts” banded together to pay €2.9 million for a rare copy of filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s plans to adapt Dune for film, thinking that then meant they could release it to the public, produce an animated series, and/or produce […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Andrew DeYoung, Angie Hodapp, Ben Dreyfuss, Bethanne Patrick, Copyright, Disney, Kate McKean, Kathryn Schulz, Kishōtenketsu, Lincoln Michel, Photography

S&S employees and authors protest Pence’s upcoming memoir (This week in books)

April 30, 2021 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! Hundreds of Simon & Schuster employees and over 3,500 other supporters signed a letter calling upon S&S CEO Jonathan Karp to stop publishing books by former members of the Trump Administration, including Vice President Mike Pence, who recently received a reported multi-million book deal for his memoir. The letter cited Pence’s advocacy […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Angela Ackerman, Blake Bailey, Disney, Jonathan Karp, Kate McKean, Lincoln Michel, Mike Pence, Philip Roth, Simon & Schuster

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