John Crowley remembered, Dark Horse union, Indian book pirates, updating books, Hollywood courts fandom for marketing, a way to access more books on Libby, writers and AI, and more links in this issue! Plus a short story by John Wiswell.
Tag: publishing industry
News & Notes – 5/02/2026
*Good* bookish news; lost copy of Old English poem found; book banning news; AI and anonymity; Hachette workers try to unionize; Library of America and the literary canon; publishing in ancient Rome; and more bookish news & links.
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.
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.
Bookish Jobs I Would Do For Free—Or Not
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. The meme was originally the brainchild of The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Bookish Jobs I Would Do For Free. Bookish Jobs I Would Do For Free As soon as I saw this week’s post,… Read more »
AI and Intellectual Property Theft
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 »
News & Notes – 2/18/2023
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 Worth Reading/Viewing For Writers & Bloggers Writing Quote Twitter Facebook 0 Pinterest 0 StumbleUpon 0
HarperCollins Union Strike Continues
You may have heard that HarperCollins union workers are on strike. The HC union has been on strike since mid-November. They are seeking better pay, more workplace diversity, and better job security. But why does this matter to you as a reader? Worker’s salaries. Most publishing jobs are in New… Read more »
News & Notes – 9/10/2022
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 NAME, short bio Obituaries and tributes: The Guardian; Los Angeles Times; NPR. Bibliography and Biography: Goodreads; Wikipedia Bookish News The Hugo Award winners were announced and presented on… Read more »
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