After the bookseller declared bankruptcy in February, many publishers pressed for a reorganization plan, but they were left unconvinced that executives had a workable way to revamp the company.
At least one publisher pressed hard to have the daily total published as well.
It's also a collaboration, this time between the original book's publisher Egmont, apps publisher Touch Press, and film company Illuminations.
Everyone involved in publishing – writers, agents, publishers, small presses, readers – would have been better for it.
All four main regional newspaper publishers – Johnston Press, Local World, Trinity Mirror and Newsquest/Gannett – feature in that list.
Matthiessen and the book's publishers, Viking Press, faced libel lawsuits from one agent and the former governor of South Dakota, which caused the book's withdrawal.
"It is a brown wrapper," says Brenda Knight, publisher of sexual-book publisher Cleis Press.
In 1996, Salinger gave a small publisher, Orchises Press, permission to publish "Hapworth 16, 1924", the previously uncollected novella.
She also wrote an autobiography, "Hazel Court: Horror Queen," to be published this month by an English publisher, Tomahawk Press.
Soon afterward, a publisher, Other Press, saw the design and agreed to publish her finished work.
Hazel Cushion, managing director of the Welsh independent publisher Accent Press, said: "They all come from large publishing houses, which shows how very hard it is to be selected.
