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.
Tag: banned books
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 – 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 – 7/20/2024
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News Worth Reading/Viewing For Writers & Bloggers Bookish Quote Twitter Facebook 0 Pinterest 0 StumbleUpon 0
News & Notes – 3/23/2024
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 Vernor Vinge, 5-time Hugo Award-winning science fiction writer who popularized the concepts of both cyberspace and a coming tech or AI singularity, died on… Read more »
News & Notes – 2/17/2024
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.
News & Notes – 2/03/2024
This week’s links include: Babel and the Hugo Awards controversy; book banning news; an author’s creepy TikTok request; ABA closing headquarters; Gen Z rediscovers public libraries; grappling with Robert Burns’s legacy; rise of romantasy; plus a wonderful free short story and several book lists
News & Notes – 1/13/2023
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 – 12/23/2023
This week’s links include a Tolkien copyright fight, an author losing a book deal for review bombing other authors, Overdrive’s most downloaded authors, fighting book bans, and more.
News & Notes – 11/04/2023
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News Awards Worth Reading/Viewing NaNoWriMo-related Books, Movies, and TV Writing Quote In honor of NaNoWriMo, today’s quote is about writing, not reading. Twitter Facebook 0… Read more »