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Landmark AI ruling is a blow to authors and artists In television ads, AI tools appear to work like magic, generating useful information or smooth prose in response to a wide variety of prompts.

This piece explains the recent ruling well.

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Screenshot of Amazon Kindle page with two books by author sino hane. The books are AI generated covers with the titles A Scent of Malice in the Archives and The Coral Heart and the Siren's Sky. The covers feature a dark green background with AI drawn illustrations of women.

This person publishes about two books a day on Zon/KU. I'm sure some of these AI "authors" are connecting to click farms to elevate page reads too. Folks like this are not *real* author competition, still, they're crowding self-pub authors out of the top 100.
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The Roundup: Five of the Biggest Publishing Stories of May 2025 May saw a number of new imprints, AI debates ramping up, and a big deal for an industry icon and a content king.

Hot off the presses (Is that a thing people still say or am I dating myself?). Five of the Biggest Publishing Stories of this past May: New imprints, Frey ❤️ AI, a Beast of a Deal, book-banning b*stards, and a Jeep+Publishing collab I didn't see coming.

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#DVpit is back! Opportunity for writers of the global majority & historically marginalized groups to pitch manuscripts to agents and AEs. There are typically strict rules about how to participate, so be aware and save the date!

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This UK publisher owes authors thousands, knows it, and seems to be doing whatever it can to avoid paying them. Read the 🧵 to see how long she's been trying to get paid.

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What Comes Next for a Changed Disney Publishing? Over the last six months, the book publishing arm of the Walt Disney Co. has undergone dramatic changes. And given the scope of the $91 billion conglomerate’s business interests, many industry insider...

"Disney doesn’t disclose financial information on publishing, but a look at PW bestseller lists indicates that the company has had a diminishing presence on the children’s side."

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New books published yesterday.

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Rejection As ... Reframing rejection in an industry that thrives on exclusion.

This week I talk about rejection, how I reframe it, and how I use Ryan Coogler and Teddy Roosevelt as fuel.

Rejection as Redirection
Rejection as Revelation
Rejection as Reconstruction
Rejection as Renewal
Rejection as Revolution

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New Bestseller List Seeks to Boost Black Book Sales The African American Literature Book Club has launched the BLK Bestseller List, showcasing the bestselling books by Black authors going back 16 months.

PW has a story about the AALBC's list in today's newsletter. "The BLK Bestseller List filters through Circana sales data for BISAC codes like “Black” and “African American,” Johnson said, as “there’s no data point for Black writers.”

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It May Be Too Late for Rural Libraries to Weather the IMLS Storm Small towns in red states overwhelmingly voted in support of cutting federal spending in their own backyard. Now the future of their libraries—and their communities—is in flux.

"Rural libraries in red states, where voters overwhelmingly supported cuts to federal spending, are finding themselves in unprecedented peril thanks to the Trump administration’s gutting of the Institute of Museum and Library Services."

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A new documentary checks out the many ways libraries are a 'Free For All' By examining the value of libraries in the distant and recent past, this PBS film makes a compelling case for the importance of the American public library system today.

Free for All paints "a portrait that is personal, passionate, and, in the end, unapologetically supportive. By examining the value of libraries in the distant and recent past, Free for All: The Public Library also makes a compelling case about their value today."

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The Bestselling Books in the United States Written by Black Writers: Adult Fiction (Hardcover), April 2025 Discover America's bestselling books by Black and African American authors. Published monthly, the BLK Bestsellers List include 160 titles across eight categories including Fiction, Nonfiction, YA and...

Did you know that since 2024, the AALBC has kept a monthly list of the bestselling books by Black authors? April's list includes James, Happy Land, and Seven Days in June.

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The use of AI was upsetting in and of itself, but it's the loss of trust this kind of thing engenders that's the wider problem. It underscores what a lot of us were already feeling: We can no longer trust the media to be honest with us, and maybe they never have been. #PublishingWatch

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I created a feed for the kinds of publishing news I had a hard time finding in one place here. This inclusive feed curates news that intersects publishing, politics, and power.

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Resharing because I'm trying to create a new feed and need to use the proper hashtag. #PublishingWatch 😏