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It comes at a time when authors are already worried about the consequences of the proposed merger between PRH and another big publisher, Simon & Schuster — the reduction in the number of unaligned UK publishers is likely to lead to fewer bidding wars, lower advances, and more conformity in terms of what is published.

此事发生之时，作者们本已在担忧企鹅兰登书屋与另一家大型出版商西蒙与舒斯特拟议合并的后果——英国独立出版商数量的减少很可能导致竞价战减少、预付稿酬降低，以及出版内容更加趋同。

Britain’s towns, it is true, are not prevented from applying, but they generally lack the resources to put together a bid to beat their bigger competitors.

诚然，英国的城镇并未被禁止申请，但它们通常缺乏资源来准备一份能击败更大竞争对手的申办方案。

Parents would be looking at their emails while the children would be making excited bids for their attention.

父母在看邮件，而孩子们则兴奋地试图吸引他们的注意。