News & Notes – 3/15/2025

March 15, 2025 News & Notes 1


News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff.

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Bookish News

Worth Reading/Viewing

  • The Billionaire Boycott Conundrum (John Scalzi, Whatever blog) A lot of people are considering whether to boycott Amazon over Jeff Bezo’s support for Trump. For many of us, it’s a complicated decision. SF author John Scalzi has some thoughts on boycotting billionaires that are worth reading.

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  • “Mail Order Magic” (Stephanie Burgis, on the Sunday Morning Transport substack) A woman with chronic illness gets an unexpected—and quite magical—pet. This story is absolutely delightful, and I want more!

AI (“artificial intelligence”)

Book Lists

Fun and Useful

  • Romance Bookstore Directory. Romancing the Data has put together a “directory of online, physical and pop-up romance bookstores, plus a handy map of physical bookstores.” This appears to be world-wide; a quick scan through A-G shows many bookstores in the US and Australia, and a smattering in Canada, the UK, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, and even Germany. You can search using multiple filters.
  • A feral cat in the UK has been showing up all over town. (below)
@amii.illustrates

Mischief causing mischief 😩 I swear I always see him around my back garden so I have NO IDEA how he finds the time for all of this?? Or how he gets around?? *EDIT* he officially has TikTok!!! @Mischief’s Adventures in Plym #fyp #mischiefthecat #funnycat #catsoftiktok #plymouth #lol #funny #funnyvideo #tuxedocat #funnyanimals

♬ Funny – Gold-Tiger

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