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Brilliant, moving, thought-provoking! Simon & Schuster is dispensing with book blurbs – will it make any difference?

Brilliant, moving, thought-provoking! Simon & Schuster is dispensing with book blurbs – will it make any difference?

It is rare to see a newly published book that doesn’t come with a ringing endorsement from at least one or two familiar names. Well known authors will laud a new title as “brilliant”, “moving” or “thought-provoking” and testify that they were “unable to put it down” – or something to that effect. These “blurbs” […]…