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: Some of these links may be behind paywalls, but most of the paywalled sites allow you to read a few free articles per month…. Read more »
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.
Independent Bookstore Day; Trump administration attacks on books, libraries; Hugo and Clarke Awards; saving poet William Wordsworth’s home; Tey’s “The Daughter of Time”; and other cool and interesting links.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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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 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 »
