Andrew Wittstadt
Heavy Bored
**UNLOCKED** No One Buys Books
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**UNLOCKED** No One Buys Books

Andrew Wittstadt goes into the viral article by Elle Griffin, “No One Buys Books,” and the revealing truths about the publishing industry and the state of the literary world as a culture and a business.

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No one buys books
In 2022, Penguin Random House wanted to buy Simon & Schuster. The two publishing houses made up 37 percent and 11 percent of the market share, according to the filing, and combined they would have condensed the Big Five publishing houses into the Big Four. But the government intervened and brought an antitrust case against Penguin to determine whether t…
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