The Guild says lack of clarity over rights reversion is the most common problem for claims due to lack of publisher records.
Publishers report increased AI usage internally for marketing, metadata and title optimization, and admin work.
Sources I spoke with say readers still have interest in serials, but the pay-per-chapter token system doesn’t work well for the Western market like it does in Asia.
CYOA Unbound is a fiction imprint for adults that offers nonlinear storytelling in its signature multiple-ending style.
What if writing isn’t central to thinking, AI-assisted material is appearing throughout op-ed pages, and other recent news.
Their policy is a strong model but also one of the strictest I’ve seen, banning generative AI for brainstorming or an editing pass.
Novelist Vauhini Vara has done her own informal testing on Pangram and found she could not trick the system.
Common causes include purchasing or trading reviews, sharing KDP credentials, and inadvertent triggering of an Amazon automated lockout.
In the gap between email and social media lie tools that let publishers and authors engage with readers without an algorithm in the way.
Crime and thriller publisher Bitter Lemon Press has launched Labyrinth Press, dedicated to international literary fiction, largely in translation.
Yates & Yates offers representation and paid services to authors of Christian nonfiction.
Barnes & Noble acquires Levenger, Wattpad has become a global entertainment powerhouse, and more recent news.
Amazon started setting upload limits in fall 2023 due to the widespread use of generative AI.
Podium is one of the biggest US audiobook publishers, and it actively buys rights from self-published authors.
Given the number of errors occurring in Anthropic claims, rights holders now have 60 days instead of 30 to submit information to support their claim.
OpenAI, like Anthropic, created an internal library of books from the pirate website LibGen and even shared those works with outsiders.
GEO is generative engine optimization: trying to influence whether your name or product appears in AI overviews or in chatbot conversations.
The identical twins—one a science nerd, the other a comic book geek—are bestselling authors who have written 34 novels together.
The imprint, DUSK, targets readers who move between YA, new adult, and adult fiction, with romance at the heart of the stories.
The transatlantic publisher is focused on books by Jewish and Israeli writers as well as nonfiction titles that shape public conversation.
Three Dragons Press is a no-advance, revenue-sharing publisher that relies on print-on-demand and digital distribution.
What to do if your Amazon KDP account is terminated, a closer look at people who use AI to write custom fiction, and more.
A new app called iLands allows the creation of autonomous AI agents that not only write articles but pitch their work to media outlets.
Jon Malysiak seeks narrative nonfiction, memoir, current affairs, wellbeing, entrepreneurship and culture.
Sarah Russo has launched The Publishing Playbook, a podcast focused on helping writers better understand the publishing industry.
Linda A. Duggins joins as an agent; she previously worked in publicity at Hachette and is co-founder of the Harlem Book Fair.
Why the nonfiction market is declining, the resurgence in reissues of older titles, what booksellers think of the end of reading, and more.
Anecdotal reports are that the USA Today bestseller list no longer reflects a ranking that’s straight sales data across formats.
Spotify uses voice models from ElevenLabs to produce the AI audiobook at no cost to authors and with no exclusivity requirements.
The government’s argument: AI development should not be restrained, whether training is fair use or not, in order to further US interests.
During the first half of 2026, the AAP reports that overall sales are up 4 percent, driven by fiction and audio.
I divide disagreements into three categories: basic disagreements, surprise agent claims, and even messier disagreements. Reasons for these disagreements vary, but metadata problems and communication from the settlement administrators have led to some of the confusion.
The second annual survey of writers and editors, updated to reflect new AI tools and challenges, is underway.
Readers can also generate infographics, audio overviews, quizzes, and other interactive features.
This latest research study concludes that ebook lending hurts book sales, especially for books early in their lifecycle with high demand, typically commercial bestsellers in adult fiction.
Globally, PRH sales are up by 2.3 percent, while the US division saw a slight increase in revenue, driven by strong audiobook sales.
Ember Novels shows that AI is increasingly able to develop and carry plot through 300 pages with fewer continuity errors than many AI-generated or assisted books currently on the market.
Manga Million, launched by Shueisha Inc, is a new free digital platform that features hundreds of manga titles translated into English
¡Viva! Los Libros, founded in 2020 in Chicago, will start publishing bilingual books.
Singularity is a new imprint from Union Square & Co. (part of Hachette) that will publish 10-12 paperback titles per year.
Sahar Kashi has joined Heirloom Literary & Media and will represent YA and adult authors.
The author credits her fourteenth novel’s success to a preorder campaign with the many bookstores she knew and loved.
Appeals have been filed by firms that were never appointed as class counsel but who nonetheless worked the case on behalf of authors and publishers.
Due to ineligibility in the Anthropic settlement, some authors discovered publishers had failed to register their work for copyright.
More than a dozen groups have asked the Federal Trade Commission to look at the scanning and destruction of books for the training of AI models.
Benjamin Davis of Chill Subs explains why prestigious literary magazines charge submission fees, what’s broken in the market, and how new journals might survive.