Indie publishers lose a major distributor; Hugo Awards finalists announced; Google discontinuing “news” search refinement; Herculaneum scroll partially deciphered; authors and translators facing threats from AI; and more book news and interesting articles.
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.
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 »
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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 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 Anyone on Twitter If you are trying to figure out where to go if Twitter implodes, and particularly if you’re curious… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Dolly Parton donated her 100 millionth book to the Library of Congress this week. Through her Imagination Library program, the singer has donated books to… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Midnight Ink to close doors in August 2019, after its Spring/Summer 2019 season. (Publishers Weekly) Pam Stack of Authors on the Air posted… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News PEN America to Honor Toni Morrison (GalleyCat) A complete list of the 2016 PEN literary award winners can be found here. The 2015 Nebula Awards… Read more »
