Following his guilty plea, Italian citizen Filippo Bernardini, the man who stole pre-publication manuscripts for his personal reading pleasure for several years, was sentenced to time served. He will be deported and pay restitution of $88,000 to Penguin Random House in monthly installments. His crime carried a maximum possible sentence of 20 years in prison. Read selected emails from some of the victims, and learn more in the New York Times.
Jane Friedman has spent her entire career working in the publishing industry, with a focus on business reporting and author education. Established in 2015, her newsletter The Bottom Line provides nuanced market intelligence to thousands of authors and industry professionals; in 2023, she was named Publishing Commentator of the Year by Digital Book World.
Jane’s expertise regularly features in major media outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, NPR, The Today Show, Wired, The Guardian, Fox News, and BBC. Her book, The Business of Being a Writer, Second Edition (The University of Chicago Press), is used as a classroom text by many writing and publishing degree programs. She reaches thousands through speaking engagements and workshops at diverse venues worldwide, including NYU’s Advanced Publishing Institute, Frankfurt Book Fair, and numerous MFA programs.
