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This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Nov. 19, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by NPD BookScan © 2022 NPD Group.

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Bob Dylan issues ultra rare public statement as he apologises for $599 book blunder

Fans were furious after discovering Bob Dylan, 81, had used an autopen to sign $599 special editions of his new book The Philosophy of Modern Song, which had been advertised as “hand-signed”

Daily Mirror

Bob Dylan apologises after machine used to ‘sign’ books worth more than £500

Dylan played four nights in London in October on back of The Philosophy of Modern Song book release

Evening Standard

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It ain’t me babe: Bob Dylan apologises for using a machine to autograph books

Musician says he had vertigo when he used autopen on books advertised as hand-signed

The Guardian - UK

Won't somebody think of Stephen King?

An unusual Justice Department strategy sank the merger of two publishing titans. Here are the real-world effects

Salon

Paramount scraps $2.2bn sale of Simon & Schuster publishing to Penguin

Penguin owner Bertelsmann will not appeal US judge’s ruling that merger would be illegal because it would hit authors’ pay

The Guardian - US

Bob Dylan publisher sorry for $600 book's replica autographs

Bob Dylan’s publisher is offering refunds for a $600 special edition of his new book, “The Philosophy of Modern Song.”

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A cell biologist shares the wonder of researching life's most fundamental form

Physician Siddhartha Mukherjee explains how cellular science could lead to breakthroughs in the treatment of cancer, HIV, Type 1 diabetes and sickle cell anemia. His new book is The Song of the Cell.

WEKU

There's No Constitutional Right To Own a Pit Bull, Federal Court Says

Plus: A flawed study on marijuana risks, the collapsing publishing-house merger, and more...

Reason

Review: Bob Dylan's new book about songwriting is fascinating, amusing and not what was expected

The Minnesota icon riffs about 66 songs and his philosophies on war, marriage and money.

Tribune News Service

US Judge lays out case for blocking publishing giants merger

A federal judge has laid out a data-laden case for why she blocked Penguin Random House’s proposed purchase of Simon & Schuster

The Independent UK

Authors celebrate antitrust case

CEOs gave bizarre testimony. Stephen King took the stand. Simon & Schuster and Penguin will remain separate

Salon

Penguin’s £1.9bn merger with US books giant is halted by judge

A merger would have ‘impoverished our democracy’, US judge finds

Evening Standard

Judge blocks Penguin Random House-Simon & Schuster merger

A federal judge blocked Penguin Random House's proposed purchase of Simon & Schuster, saying that the joining of two of the world's biggest publishers could "lessen competition."

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Los Angeles Times

Judge blocks Penguin Random House takeover of Simon & Schuster

A federal judge has blocked Penguin Random House’s attempt to swallow its smaller rival, Simon & Schuster, dealing a blow to the world’s largest book publisher’s attempt to become an even bigger giant.

The Guardian - US

US judge blocks $2.2bn Penguin Random House merger

Justice department argued the melding of the publishing house with Simon & Schuster would harm competition and authors’ pay

Axios

Judge blocks $2.2 billion merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster

The DOJ has argued that the merger violates antitrust law and would harm competition.

The Independent UK

Why Stephen King turned on his own publisher in a battle over the future of the book industry

Josh Marcus looks into why the horror king — and the Biden administration — has been trying to stop the big-money merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster

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The Independent UK

Judge blocks Penguin Random House from buying rival Simon & Schuster

Horror author Stephen King testified on behalf of the Biden administration in August trial

WEKU

Author Colleen Hoover went from tending cows to writing bestsellers

The top-selling author in the country right now is a 42-year-old mom and former social worker who lives in the same small Texas town where she's spent practically her entire life.

The Independent UK

Lana Del Rey says she lost unpublished book manuscript and new music in car break-in

Grammy-nominated singer had a backpack stolen out of her car in Los Angeles

Chicago Sun-Times

Anthony Bourdain biography reveals a man spiraling and ‘addicted to being busy’

The impressionistic portrait that emerges is of a complex man who combined swagger and spiky cool with deep insecurity, neediness and image-consciousness.

Salon

Bourdain & the "unauthorized" biography

There exists no such thing as "authorized" or "unauthorized" biography, and such labels are misleading

The Conversation

Anthony Bourdain and the farce of the 'unauthorized' biography

“The agents of reticence,” wrote the English poet Ian Hamilton in “Keepers of the Flame,” “have no truck with the agents of disclosure.”

Los Angeles Times

Author responds to family's unrest over controversial new Anthony Bourdain book

Author Charles Leerhsen has responded to criticism from the family of celebrated chef, writer and world traveler Anthony Bourdain condemning his unauthorized biography of the "No Reservations" star that includes some of the last text messages Bourdain sent before dying by suicide in 2018.

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The Latest Breaking News from Simon & ﻿Schuster

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