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.
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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 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 »
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 »
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