Tom Wolfe changed publishers, ending a decades-spanning relationship with Farrar Straus Giroux to rejoin his longtime editor, Pat Strachan, at Little, Brown.
Ursula K. Le Guin published an essay in Harper’s arguing that reading was never that popular to begin with, which is pretty much what Steve Jobs was saying right around the same time. Le Guin added that “publishing is not, in fact, a normal business with a nice healthy relationship to capitalism.”