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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 – 10/11/2025
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: 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 »
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 – 4/26/2025
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.
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.
News & Notes – 3/15/2025
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!
News & Notes – 2/08/2025
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.
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