Category: News & Notes

News & Notes – 12/06/2025

OpenAI loses discovery battle in authors’ class-action lawsuit; Edelweiss hikes prices for publishers; IMLS restores grants; NYPL’s Best Books of 2025; and more.

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff. NOTE on paywalls: Some of these links may be behind paywalls, but most of the paywalled sites allow you to read a few free articles per month…. Read more »

News & Notes – 9/13/2025

Anthropic copyright lawsuit, the end of de minimus, reading rates slump, court orders protect IMLS and head of Copyright Office, familects, nontraditional publishing, and more.

News & Notes – 8/23/2025

In News & Notes this week: A drop in pleasure reading; book censorship news; Google’s AI Gemini Storybook app; Hugo Award winners (and announcer controversy), and a lot of interesting articles and opinion posts.

News & Notes – 5/31/2025

Author Peter Morwood’s death; Pulitzer Prize winners; 2 large newspapers publish summer reading list of nonexistent books; more on Trump administration firings (LOC, Copyright Office) and closure of IMLS; the disappearing mass market paperback; language changes; and more.

News & Notes – 4/26/2025

Independent Bookstore Day; Trump administration attacks on books, libraries; Hugo and Clarke Awards; saving poet William Wordsworth’s home; Tey’s “The Daughter of Time”; and other cool and interesting links.

News & Notes – 4/05/2025

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff. NOTE on paywalls: Publisher’s Weekly and The Guardian may require you to sign up for a free account in order to read their content. Both The New York Times and the Washington Post have… Read more »