Terry Brooks retiring; Nebula Awards shortlist; new Harper Lee collection to be published; Macmillan fights back against Meta; book censorship news; London Book Fair; boycotting billionaires; and other links. Plus a peripatetic British cat!
Category: News & Notes
News & Notes – 3/08/2025
Book censorship; AI & plagiarism; conflict in the ABA; Little Free Libraries; book lists; and more bookish links.
News & Notes – 2/08/2025
AI and copyright; Bookshop.org now has e-books; literary organizations decry anti-trans executive orders; Neil Gaiman accuser files suit; fighting book ban laws; Black literary movements; Nora Roberts interview; Jane Austen covers; and more links.
News & Notes – 2/01/2025
DOE denies book bans exist; Neil Gaiman scandal; publisher supports anti-child-marriage campaign; S&S no longer requires blurbs; and links to other book-related posts.
News & Notes – 1/25/2025
LA fires, book bans, library news, romancelandia becomes political (it has been for a while!), escapism in books, TBRCon, Microsoft 365’s AI “CoPilot”, and bookish more news and links.
News & Notes – 12/14/2024
Nikki Giovanni’s death; New Jersey protects the freedom to read; British authors’ society calls for ghostwriters to be credited; AI creates a ludicrously bad textbook cover; Romantasy has been there all along; Sanderson on writing fantasy; and more article links.
News & Notes – 12/07/2024
News & Notes is an occasional 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… Read more »
News & Notes – 10/26/2024
PRH says “no” to AI training; Carnegie Medal longlist; The Little Prince typescript up for auction; print-on-demand books substituted for publishers’ copies; bookshops are cool now; AI audiobook narrators; and more in this week’s links!
News & Notes 9/06/2024 – NaNoWriMo AI Controversy; Neil Gaiman Allegations
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: I’m going to stick to two major stories this week, because I have too much going on in my own life and no time to… Read more »
News & Notes – 7/27/2024
This week’s links include: Sales of books by Kamala Harris and JD Vance are up; ALA Conference resurges; Project 2025 and books; romance novels and disability rep; and best-books lists.
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