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Sometimes publishing provides the best plots

Editor's LetterOct 9, 2025by Philip Jones

In a week of great change in publishing, the plot twist of the vanishingly swift exit of Charlie Redmayne from his role as HarperCollins UK CEO would not be out of place in one of the late Jilly Cooper’s books.

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Philip Jones

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Philip is editor of The Bookseller, a position he took up in August 2012. Before that he was deputy editor, having first joined the magazine in 1996. He was its web editor for 10 years, having helped launch thebookseller.com in 1998. He is a regular commentator on book trade matters on radio, TV and in the broadsheet newspapers.