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A week after declining to voluntarily recognize the Hachette Workers Coalition, Hachette Book Group has launched an internal informational campaign discouraging unionization, with the stated goal of helping employees make an “informed decision” about whether to organize. The Texas Book Festival is making its first foray into publishing with the launch of Burro Libro Press, which will publish one work of debut fiction a year in tandem with Deep Vellum, Letterpress PLAY, and the Tejemos Foundation. The New York Public Library, Random House Publishing Group, and longtime Random House editor Kate Medina have teamed up to launch a new literary narrative nonfiction fellowship for writers whose projects make use of the library’s collections. And in this week’s magazine, we talked with some of the acquiring editors who are bringing self-published romance authors to new audiences. In other news, the Salt Lake Tribune found that nearly all of the statewide book bans in Utah originate from just two school districts. Netflix has extended its overall deal with Harlan Coben and greenlighted its 12th series with the author, an adaptation of Coben’s Myron Bolitar series from David E. Kelley, reports Deadline. Remarkably Bright Creatures director Olivia Newman has set her next page-to-screen adaptation with Anjet Daanje’s The Remembered Soldier, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Harlequin is releasing deluxe editions of Heated Rivalry and Rachel Reid’s entire Game Changers Series, per Rolling Stone. And the trailers for the Netflix adaptation of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden and the Laika adaptation of Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis’s Wildwood just dropped.