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Jul. 3, 2025
Quirk Books has begun a six-month pause on acquiring new books due to “marketplace and operational challenges.” As a result, the company laid off several staff members, including seven members of the union that won voluntary recognition in June—part of an exodus of staff members that began with president and publisher Jhanteigh Kupihea’s resignation at the end of 2024 and leaves the company at nearly half the staff they had at the beginning of the year. “Quirk has been facing marketplace and operational challenges for the past few years, and are in the first stage of implementing a strategic plan …
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Financial Times columnist Soumaya Keynes and Peterson Institute fellow Chad P. Bown's HOW TO WIN A TRADE WAR, arguing that trade as we know it has changed and providing a map for understanding the right trade war to fight and how to fight it, to Stephanie Frerich at Simon & Schuster, by Rafe Sagalyn and Karolina Sutton at CAA. Rights also to Mike Harpley at Pan Macmillan (UK); to Ariston (Germany); to Deusto (Spain); and to Will Books (Korea); by Helen Manders at CAA. helen.manders@caa.com
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