By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer December 26, 2020 122 On Feb. 13, Oprah Winfrey, left, and 'American Dirt' author Jeanine Cummins appear in Tucson, Ariz., where they taped an 'Oprah's Book Club' show about Cummins' controversial book. Cummins' novel about Mexican immigrants had been widely cited as a top seller and critical favorite for 2020, but Latino authors and critics alleged that Cummins had reinforced stereotypes about Mexico and Mexican immigrants. (AP Photo/Hillel Italie, File) Book publishing in 2020 was a story of how much an industry can change and how much it can, or wants to, remain the same. “A lot of what has happened this year – if it were a novel, I would say that it had a little too much plot,” said Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp.