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Riverhead Books' nearest ten neighbors are almost entirely other book publishers and literary media — a tight, same-kind cluster with no single standout pulling ahead of the rest.
Similarity here measures how closely two entities' audiences resemble each other in composition. Across the top 10, scores span just 0.97 to 0.96 — a narrow band that confirms the flat shape. Farrar, Straus & Giroux (0.97) and Viking (0.97) sit at the top, separated by a rounding difference, followed by Penguin Press (0.97) and Alfred A. Knopf (0.96). Seven of the ten neighbors are fellow Book Publishers; the other three are Marketing Channels — The Millions (0.96), a blog, and Granta (0.96) and Doubleday (0.96), a magazine and another publisher respectively. The non-publisher entries are literary media properties rather than general-interest outlets, which reinforces how tightly the audience shape tracks the literary world. No celebrities, no news publishers, and no brands outside publishing appear in the top 10.
What the flat shape reveals is an audience defined almost entirely by its relationship to literary publishing and criticism — one that moves coherently across imprints and literary outlets rather than dispersing into adjacent cultural spaces.
