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TRUMP SUE WOODWARD
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3 rw imprints? folsom, post hill and
As of 2022, approximately 80% percent of the United States trade market for books was controlled by the "Big Five" publishing houses: Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Macmillan.[27]
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Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them) is a 2024 American political and polemical book by Jack Posobiec and co-author Joshua Lisec which was a New York Times bestseller.[1] It features a foreword by Steve Bannon and a blurb from JD Vance.
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“Like many autocratic governments, the Trump administration has targeted the media,” they say, referring to Trump suing ABC News, CBS News, Meta, Simon & Schuster and TheDes Moines Register. He’s also “deployed” the Federal Communications Commission to open an investigation of fund-raising practices by PBS and NPR, and reinstating complaints against ABC, CBS and NBC for anti-Trump bias while ignoring complaints against Fox News for promoting lies about the 2020 election.
The writers say “there are signs of an awakening” to the threat in the U.S., particularly with Harvard refusing to install Trump’s commissar to direct school business. It’s also visible in Microsoft recent move to dump the services of a law firm that agreed to do pro bono work for Trump in favor of one that defied the White House.
America’s slide into authoritarianism is reversible, they say, “but no one has ever defeated autocracy from the sidelines.”
Read the full New York Times article here.
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Former President Donald Trump sued famed journalist Bob Woodward, publisher Simon & Schuster and its parent company, Paramount Global.
Trump claims he never agreed to allow audio of Woodward’s tapes of his interviews with Trump to be sold to the public.
- The suit seeks at least $49,980,000, which it says is based on an estimate that the audiobook, “The Trump Tapes,” sold more than 2 million copies at $24.99 apiece.
Former President Donald Trump sued famed journalist Bob Woodward on Monday over the release of audio recordings of his interviews with Trump, who claims he never agreed to allow those tapes to be sold to the public.
Woodward, publisher Simon & Schuster and its parent company, Paramount Global, “unlawfully usurped” Trump’s copyright interests and other rights by publishing an audiobook featuring hours of “raw” audio from Woodward’s many interviews with Trump, the lawsuit alleges.
The suit seeks at least $49,980,000, which it says is based on an estimate that the audiobook, “The Trump Tapes,” sold more than 2 million copies at $24.99 apiece.
The 31-page complaint, filed in federal court in Pensacola, Florida, alleges that Trump “repeatedly stated to Woodward, in the presence of others, that he was agreeing to be recorded for the sole purpose of Woodward being able to write a single book.”
That book, 2021′s “Rage,” failed to replicate the success of Woodward’s previous book on the Trump White House, according to the lawsuit. Woodward then “decided to exploit, usurp, and capitalize upon President Trump’s voice by releasing the Interview Sound Recordings of their interviews with President Trump in the form of an audiobook,” the complaint alleges.
Simon & Schuster did not immediately comment on the lawsuit.
Woodward interviewed Trump over the phone and in person 19 times between December 2019 and August 2020, according to the lawsuit. Woodward and his publisher assembled more than eight hours of audio from those interviews, plus another from 2016, for the audiobook, which was released last October “without President Trump’s permission,” the lawsuit says.
Trump “made Woodward aware on multiple occasions, both on and off the record, of the nature of the limited license to any recordings, therefore retaining for himself the commercialization and all other rights to the narration,” according to the lawsuit.
Trump himself railed against the defendants in a statement Monday night, accusing them of “wrongfully profiting from my Voice” and orchestrating a “blatant attempt to make me look as bad as possible.”
The complaint also alleges that Trump and his lawyers had previously “confronted” the defendants about the dispute, but they “brazenly refused to recognize President Trump’s copyright and contractual rights.”
The lawsuit notes that the audio has also been worked into CD, paperback and e-book formats, “all at the expense of President Trump and without accounting to him.”
The lawsuit accused the three defendants of unjust enrichment, and singled out the author himself on counts of breaching a contract and an “implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing.”
Trump sued Woodward, who is one-half of the legendary reporting duo that broke the Nixon-era Watergate scandal, as he ramps up his 2024 presidential campaign. Weeks before he launched his current White House bid, a federal judge dismissed Trump’s sprawling lawsuit against Democratic presidential campaign rival Hillary Clinton and a cadre of former officials, slamming it as a “political manifesto.”
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Dec 17, 2024The lawsuit names Woodward, Simon & Schuster and its then-parent company, Paramount Global, as defendants. Trump is seeking at least $49 million in damages.
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Jan 30, 2023Trump claims he never agreed to allow audio of Woodward's tapes of his interviews with Trump to be sold to the public.
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May 23, 2025Earlier this week, you might have seen news that former President Donald Trump has filed a new lawsuit, this time against journalist Bob Woodward and his publisher Simon & Schuster. The suit alleges, among other things, that Bob Woodward and Simon & Schuster are infringing Trump's copyright interests by copying and distributing eight hours of "raw" interviews that Trump gave to Woodward ...
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Mr. Trump's lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in Florida, takes issue with an audiobook released in October by Mr. Woodward and his book publisher Simon & Schuster, titled "The Trump ...
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...For example, his administration appears to be reversing a decades-long status quo and embracing vigorous antitrust enforcement.
This is a vital step in reducing inequity and breaking the hammerlock the wealthy currently have on policy and public life.
With the threat of authoritarianism looming, the reinvigoration of antitrust policy could be one of the few positive signs of democratic renewal.
The biggest recent victory for the administration’s tougher trust-busting approach was in the book industry. The Biden Justice Department brought a lawsuit to block the merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster.....
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Alternative Facts': Outrage and mockery target publisher who just gave Kellyanne Conway a book deal
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April 28, 2021
Simon & Schuster has given Kellyanne Conway a book deal, the deputy editor of The New York Times Book Review reports, and people both inside and outside the company are furious. The 97-year old worldwide
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Hill_Press
Post Hill Press, distributed by Simon & Schuster, is a United States print and e-book publishing house. The company was founded in 2013, and has offices in New York City and Nashville, Tennessee. It publishes pop culture, business, self-help, health, current events, Christian and conservative political books. In 2017, the company added the Bombardier Books division for conservative politics and military books.
Authors published by Post Hill include media personalities and political figures such as Teen Mom stars Maci Bookout and Kailyn Lowry,[2] Venezuelan actress and fashion model Patricia Velasquez,[3] former presidential candidate Herman Cain,[4] former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan,[5] and Dancing With the Stars dancer Karina Smirnoff.[6]
Post Hill's publisher is Anthony Ziccardi, formerly publisher of Humanix Books (a division of Newsmax Media) and associate publisher of Simon & Schuster's Gallery imprint.[7]
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- ^ "Ziccardi Joins Post Hill Books as Publisher". Publishers Weekly.
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Why Milo Yiannopoulos’s canceled book deal isn’t a moral win for conservative publishing
By Constance Grady@constancegrady Feb 22, 2017, 12:30pm EST
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Earlier this week, Simon & Schuster announced the cancellation of its contract with Milo Yiannopoulos, the infamous internet troll and proud darling of the white supremacists of the self-described alt-right. The announcement followed months of controversy and outrage surrounding nearly anything having to do with Yiannopoulos. It also came on the heels of Yiannopoulos being disinvited from speaking at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, in response to the resurfacing of an old video in which Yiannopoulos defended pedophilia.
Simon & Schuster announced the cancellation quietly, in the trade magazine Publishers Weekly, and it is keeping its editorializing to an absolute minimum. When Vox emailed the publisher to request a comment, a spokesperson repeated word for word the statement printed in Publishers Weekly: “After careful consideration, Simon & Schuster and its Threshold Editions imprint have cancelled publication of Dangerous by Milo Yiannopoulos.”
But just this December, when Simon & Schuster announced that it had acquired Yiannopoulos’s book, it did so with a mild flourish. There was a Hollywood Reporter article, and the trade publication Publisher’s Lunch listed Yiannopoulos at the top of the nonfiction section in its daily list of book deals.
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It wasn’t the big, splashy rollout that, say, beloved children’s author Philip Pullman received last week when he revealed that he’s writing a follow-up to the His Dark Materials trilogy. It was instead an announcement with the gentlest and most subdued of jazz hands, as if to say: Observe, we are about to publish a book by a political pundit of minor notoriety. Which, for acquiring imprint Threshold Books — Simon & Schuster’s designated home for conservative authors and half the pundits of Fox News — is more or less par for the course.
But Milo Yiannopoulos is not mildly notorious. He is infamous for his bigotry and for leading vicious harassment campaigns — and the fact that Threshold Books eventually canceled his contract after he said he was okay with pedophilia does not change the fact that the publisher seemed to be okay with everything else he represented. It appears Threshold was perfectly willing, and even eager, to capitalize on the career Yiannopoulos built through hatred and bigotry, right up until the bigotry started to look like it wouldn’t be profitable.
Threshold Books tried to treat Yiannopoulos like any other vaguely famous pundit. That didn’t work out very well.
In the days after its December announcement, Threshold Books gave every indication that it planned to treat Yiannopoulos like any other slightly famous author, albeit one whose bubble might well be on the verge of bursting. The imprint had him on what appeared to be an accelerated publication schedule, with his book initially slated to come out this March, despite the fact that Yiannopoulos would later claim, in early February, that he had not yet submitted his final manuscript.
If Yiannopoulos is to be believed, the timeline suggests that Threshold was apparently planning to edit, copy edit, lay out, print, bind, and distribute his book in the span of about a month. (It usually takes at least nine months to shepherd a manuscript from submission through publication.) Often, when a publisher rushes a book, it’s trying to capitalize on someone’s 15 minutes of fame: Better to spend the extra money to get the book out fast, the thinking goes, than risk losing the entire sales base by publishing a year after everyone’s already forgotten about this guy.
Everything about the announcement made it seem as though Threshold believed Yiannopoulos was like any other author in its catalog, someone whose book a conservative audience could be counted on to buy — assuming it could get the book out before a conservative audience forgot who Yiannopoulos was. Certainly nothing about the announcement qualified as awareness that the deal was about to face an enormous swell of outrage and a boycott. But that’s exactly what happened.
Milo Yiannopoulos is a professional internet troll known for harassment and bigotry
Shortly after Threshold’s deal with Yiannopoulos was announced, prominent liberal intellectuals announced that they would be boycotting Simon & Schuster. The Chicago Review of Books announced that it would not review any Simon & Schuster books in 2017. Literary superstar Roxane Gay pulled her upcoming book from Simon & Schuster’s list.
And that’s because Yiannopoulos is not a garden-variety conservative author. He is a professional troll who weaponized Twitter as a tool for (racist, sexist, transphobic) harassment so effectively that Twitter was forced to permanently ban him. On his ongoing college speaking tour, he has doxed trans students, putting their lives in danger. He routinely makes hyperbolically offensive statements like “feminism is cancer,” designed to rile up liberals, and then when liberals get angry, he winks and says he didn’t really mean it: He was just being provocative.
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But none of that — not Yiannopoulos’s history of harassment and bigotry, not the widespread outcry and the loss of major authors — was enough for Threshold Books to think twice about acquiring his book in the first place, let alone cancel his contract. It took the resurfacing of a video in which Yiannopoulos explicitly defends pedophilia for Threshold to pull the plug.
The cancellation of Yiannopoulos’s book deal suggests a dangerous acceptance of bigotry from conservative thinkers
For many on the left, including writers like Gay, the timing of Threshold’s decision demonstrates that the publisher doesn’t really care about Yiannopoulos’s right to free speech so much as it liked what he was saying before he got to the part about pedophiles — and, more importantly, that it believed its customers would like what he was saying. Threshold thought it could make money from his book, and now it doesn’t think it will. Writes Gay:
When his comments about pedophilia/pederasty came to light, Simon & Schuster realized it would cost them more money to do business with Milo than he could earn for them. They did not finally “do the right thing” and now we know where their threshold, pun intended, lies. They were fine with his racist and xenophobic and sexist ideologies. They were fine with his transphobia, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. They were fine with how he encourages his followers to harass women and people of color and transgender people online. Let me assure you, as someone who endured a bit of that harassment, it is breathtaking in its scope, intensity, and cruelty but hey, we must protect the freedom of speech.
In other words, Threshold has sent a clear message: Explicit bigotry, harassment, and hatred are tolerable among conservative thinkers. Defense of child molestation is where we draw the line in the sand.
Conservative book publishing is still mired in dog-whistle punditry
Yiannopoulos’s canceled contract is a minor victory for the left, but it does not mean conservative book publishing is going to enter a new golden age of sober-minded thought. Book publishing has already found that it can make obscene amounts of money on dog-whistle racism and fearmongering, and it learned as much by doing the same kind of cynical calculations that first led it to strike a book deal with Yiannopoulos: This person is getting attention, this person has an audience, this person is someone who will effectively sell books. It’s not a decision motivated by commitment to free speech or to any particular ideology. It’s a decision motivated by profit margins.
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What conservative book publishing has learned from the Milo Yiannopoulos controversy is that it is unlikely to make significant amounts of money publishing a provocateur who defends pedophilia, and it will definitely lose prestige and cultural capital. But publishers will continue to make money on authors who are just a little more guarded than Yiannopoulos in their bigotry, and they will likely continue to push the envelope on how guarded that bigotry has to be, as long as they think they can make money by doing so.
Meanwhile, Yiannopoulos is planning to seek another publisher for Dangerous and has said he’ll donate 10 percent of the eventual royalties to child abuse charities. (The last time he announced he’d be making a major charitable donation — to white men — it never panned out.)
“I’m not going anywhere,” he says.
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- Hardcover: 160 pages
- Publisher: Post Hill Press (October 9, 2018)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 9781642930948
- ISBN-13: 978-1642930948
- ASIN: 1642930946
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #184,797 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Regnery has subsequently left his post as President of Regnery Publishing to become the publisher of The American Spectator magazine.[^^10]^(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnery_Publishing#cite_note-9) His books are now published byThreshold Editions, the conservative imprint of CBS-owned Simon & Schuster which is run by Republican strategist Mary Matalin.:{^[^:(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}:^11]^ He still holds a seat on the Regnery Board of Directors. Pat Sajak also is a member of the board. Alex Novak, son of political columnist Robert Novak, is director of marketing.
Simon & Schuster is a large book publisher owned by the CBS Corporation (following its separation from Viacom after the company split in two).
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- Threshold Editions (conservative books; chief editor is Mary Matalin[1])
In March 2005, Matalin was hired as chief editor of a new conservative publishing imprint, Threshold Editions, for CBS-owned Simon & Schuster.[10][11] On August 1, 2008, this division released The Obama Nation, written by Jerome Corsi who co-authored Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry.[12] Other notable titles published by Threshold Editions includes Dick Cheney's In My Time, Karl Rove's Courage and Consequenceand a number of Glenn Beck books including Cowards, and Broke.[13]
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In late 2007, with Obama in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Corsi gleaned a new opportunity to "rattle the cage." He punched out a proposal for an anti-Obama attack book, Obama Nation, and floated it to right-wing publishers. Mary Matalin, the longtime Republican consultant and former senior adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, was hunting for titles for her two-year-old publishing imprint,Threshold, a conservative division of Simon and Schuster. When Corsi's proposal landed on her desk, she was thrilled.
Matalin promptly signed Corsi to a lucrative deal, positioning Obama Nation as Threshold's premier release of the summer season. In anticipation of heavy sales, Matalin ordered the printing of 475,000 copies. When the book was released in early August, conservative foundations and think tanks ensured its early success with a massive bulk buy, propelling it to number one on the New York Times bestseller list.
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2000 Al smeared as elite liar
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Chapter 8 How Benghazi Became #Benghazi p. 150
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Town Hall katie pavlich:men in libya died as help told to stand down 168 mcfarland on Fox said pol decision to to give them adequate security po decision not to rescue them (he ran against he for senate) 169
SOCAFRICA told guys not to board plane b/c no authorization (from?) but actually guys in tripoli were told beng ppl on way back and might need medical attan, so missing them bad move; no stand down order.
but mid april 2103 sharyl Atk sez multiple whistleblowers; referred to lts leaked by issa comm (get sec clearance for lawyers to protect whist from anticipated admin retaliation, slyly suggested 171 then issa announced a hearing to see if admin suppressed info 171 --> Victoria Toensing (husb joe digenova old clinton days ark pjt)
atk had done bad report on vaccines and Fast and Furious, got CPAC award; quit cbs, joined heritage wrote book (issa at bk launch); claimed gov't hacked computer, spooky web video, stuck space bar 172
Lara Logan Dylan Davies threshold book (Simon & S, owned by CBS) not disclosed. Fox had been using him as src, but quit when he asked for $ 175
eventually did 90 sec correction; LL put on leave; book not published (LL conferred with Lindsey Graham, why a problem if she had)?
trey gowdy angling for fed judge? how does hearings help that? 177