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“The day after Swift announced her book, David Shelley, the CEO of Hachette, one of the ‘Big Five’ book publishers, said something at the Frankfurt Book Fair that got far less attention…Best sellers, established tentpoles of the industry, were now ‘icing on the cake,’ he explained. The book industry still welcomes the hype and sales that a star can bring, but more and more, publishers also rely on what they already have: generations’ worth of older titles — what they call the backlist.” —LO
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Bestsellers,
books,
Celebrity,
Hachette,
publishing,
Taylor Swift
