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Publishers High on Woodstock

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A slew of summer releases celebrate the festival’s 40th anniversary.

This August marks the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, and publishers are showing their love. Beginning this month, an array of titles commemorating the festival will hit bookstore shelves—from tie-ins to Ang Lee’s new film Taking Woodstock, in theaters August 14, to photo tributes to first-person accounts. A Publishers Weekly round-up of the books notes that “publishers seem to be targeting readers of a certain age (who, incidentally, also happen to buy more books, as a group, than any others).”

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