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Article History

Received: 1 May 2025

Accepted: 28 January 2026

First Online: 27 March 2026

Declarations

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: The authors have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to the content of this article. The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose. The authors did not receive support from any organization for the submitted work. One literary agent was known to the authors, and was removed from the MSWL dataset before analysis. Their two books sold to publishers were not removed from the deals dataset. One author in the deals dataset was also known to the authors; their book was not removed from that dataset before analysis.

: This work was deemed exempt from IRB review under DHHS regulatory Category 4 by George Washington University.