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Readerlink’s deal to acquire “the business and substantially all the assets” of Baker & Taylor — due to close by Friday, September 26 — has been terminated instead. Readerlink indicated there is no formal statement about the termination. Baker & Taylor’s open invoices with publishers were to remain with the current owners, and publishers were expressing concern about getting paid. Earlier this year, several librarians reported shipping delays from B&T and books being backordered at the wholesaler, which the company attributed to post-pandemic supply chain issues. On Reddit, a number of customers report switching their business to Ingram, Brodart and other

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Julie Murphy's VERA STEIN IS FINE, following a 40-year-old aspiring screenwriter who, after dumping her boss/situationship, finds herself crashing with her ex-scream queen grandmother at a retirement community for swinging seniors—where the on-site physician just happens to be the woman's former ill-fated college fling and (for reasons that will stay in Vegas) legally her ex-husband, to May Chen at Avon, in a significant deal, in a two-book deal, for … read more
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