Indie publishers lose a major distributor; Hugo Awards finalists announced; Google discontinuing “news” search refinement; Herculaneum scroll partially deciphered; authors and translators facing threats from AI; and more book news and interesting articles.
This week’s links include: more on the Hugo Awards controversy; OpenAI lawsuits; Balzer + Bray moves to MacMillan; fantasy and romantasy explained; GenZ turns to physical books & libraries; diversity in romance; book banning (again); a fiction piece about a fearsome giant snail; a fantastic review of Laurie R. King’s Mary Russell mystery series; and more.
This week’s links include: lots of book banning and library news; ChatGPT and copyrighted materials; Tor.com rebrands; indie bookstore given to new owner; the ethics of biofiction; Ranger’s Apprentice series to get TV adaptation; plus reading challenges to check out, 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 Literary Losses Echo Brown, author of Black Girl Unlimited and The Chosen One, died Sept. 16 of renal failure at the age of 39. Brown had… Read more »
AI and Intellectual Property Theft In case you’ve missed the headlines, it turns out that Meta’s generative AI program was trained on Books3, a vast dataset of books, many of them pirated. It seems probable that other generative AI chatbots, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, were as well. (NOTE: Link goes… Read more »
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News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Literary Losses Anne Perry, bestselling author of the Charlotte & Thomas Pitt and William Monk historical mystery series, died on April 10, 2023, at the age… Read more »
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