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Tag: AI
News & Notes – 4/25/2026
Shakespeare’s London house site located; Harlequin to produce AI-generated microdramas; BookCon was overcrowded; indie bookstores making a comeback. Plus lost medieval pronouns, book banning news, and more.
News & Notes – 3/28/2026
Illustrator Michael Hague’s death; Hachette pulls novel for alleged use of AI; new contract for HarperCollins union; AI firms sued for copyright infringement (again); Kelly Barnhill’s slow recovery from TBI; fighting library book bans; and more links, videos, and cool book-related stuff.
News & Notes – 1/31/2026
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 »
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.
AI spambots in my comments
The spambots in my comments are apparently using ChatGPT now, and the results are scarily good and hilariously bad at the same time.
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 – 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 »
News & Notes – 3/22/2025
The administration’s assault on libraries; Meta tries to silence a critic; AI and copyright violation; self-publishing vs. trad publishing; book censorship news; a few literature awards; dyslexic fonts; and more bookish news & notes.
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