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Small Press Insights: bestseller tracking site

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Author Jim Hanas has launched a website called Small Press Insights that reveals which small-press books are selling on Amazon.
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How Faire Fills a Distribution Gap for Publishers

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Faire is a tech wholesale B2B marketplace built for the gift, jewelry, and home goods market, but increasingly used by publishers and bookstores.
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Authors Guild adds a new AI clause to their model contract regarding publishers’ use of AI on manuscripts

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Their statement is in response to a report that some publishing professionals are feeding manuscripts into AI without explicit permission from authors.
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Comprehensive Q&A about Draft2Digital fees

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Author Kevin McLaughlin has addressed the change in a long FAQ based on his conversation with D2D CEO Kris Austin.
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High claim rate in Anthropic lawsuit: 91 percent

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That breaks down to 119,876 claims that account for 440,490 of the 482,460 works on the official list.
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The Question Every Memoirist Needs to Ask (But Almost No One Does)

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Before trying to structure a memoir, you must understand how you’ve changed and what that process looked like—which can be hard to pinpoint.
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Giving Your Characters Serious Challenges May Give Them Delightful Strengths

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Most characters have a challenge to overcome, but what about more serious physical or psychological issues that can’t be “cured” or ignored?
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AI and Libraries: Why Librarians May Become Arbiters of Reality

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Librarians are managing AI’s real-world effects, making them publishing’s early warning system on reliability, trust, and the limits of AI literacy.
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Ghosting Your Own Book: How to Cross the Finish Line When You Want to Run Away

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Faced with pursuing publication that might reopen old wounds, one memoirist overcame the challenge with help from therapy, community, and AI.
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On the List: The Poison Daughter by Sheila Masterson

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The Poison Daughter is her fourth novel and her first USA Today bestseller.
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Defendants in the Crave copyright case demand that their collective $3.4 million in legal fees be covered

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US copyright law allows for the prevailing party to recover legal fees, although it’s discretionary and not automatic.
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Barnes & Noble Press sets minimum paperback price of $14.99, among other new guidelines

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Cost pressures on print have been increasing, but this requirement will prove challenging for novellas, poetry, or works with low page counts.
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New imprint: Caleb and Kyle Publishing

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It will focus on English-language originals with previously unpublished English translations of successful German titles.
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Links of Interest: April 15, 2026

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The latest in viral news, trends, AI, Amazon, and culture & politics.
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New publisher: Paramount Global Publishing

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The operation will adapt the company’s IP into books and develop new original stories that might reach the screen.
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New imprint at Skyhorse with Tucker Carlson

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Skyhorse Publishing, known for publishing conservative voices, is launching an imprint in partnership with Tucker Carlson’s media company.
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Whoopi Goldberg partners with Blackstone Publishing

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Together they are launching an imprint called WhoopInk, focused on bringing “fresh, diverse new talent to the marketplace” in all genres.
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New nonfiction imprint at Abrams

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Abrams Well will publish five to six wellness titles annually with its inaugural releases beginning next year.
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Publisher Subscriptions: Cultivating Reader Loyalty and Profitability

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Three nonprofit publishers discuss the importance of their subscription programs: McSweeney’s, Open Letter, and Archipelago Books.
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Draft2Digital introduces account activation and maintenance fees

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They write, “We’ve seen a significant increase in automated and low-quality account creation. A modest activation fee can make a real difference.”
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Microcosm Publishing makes AI policy available

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The announcement is due to demand from authors—and also increasingly from stores and sales reps who are asking them to take a strong stance.
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How Compassion Changed My Writing

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When a writer began to see her mother with compassion, her writing changed—and her stories started getting published.
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Paying for Exposure on Social Media: What Not to Do

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An author decides to pay a bookstagrammer for exposure for her book, and comes to regret it so much that she asks the promotion to be deleted.
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Teach Your Book: Designing a Class Around Your Memoir

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By teaching one’s own work, a writer discovers not only what they do well, but how others might use such insights to unlock their own drafts.
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Links of Interest: April 8, 2026

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The latest in traditional publishing, AI, and culture & politics.