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Authors File New Lawsuit Against AI Companies Seeking More Money
Six authors who opted out of the the proposed Anthropic settlement have filed individual lawsuits against Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI, and Perplexity AI, seeking $150,000 for each title from each defendant per the Copyright Act.
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Chaos in Washington, Distribution Turmoil Made for a Tumultuous 2025
The Trump administration targeted several book-adjacent government agencies, while libraries and comics publishers reeled over Baker & Taylor’s closure and Diamond’s bankruptcy, respectively.
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Bill Ames Launches Sports-Focused Literary, PR Agency
After 16 years acquiring and publicizing sports titles at Triumph Books, the publishing veteran has launched Ames Sports Literary & Publicity Agency, a combined literary agency and book publicity and marketing company.
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Trump-Aligned Law Firm Files Civil Rights Complaint Against PRH
America First Legal, founded by Stephen Miller, has asked the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate Penguin Random House’s DEI policies and programs, which it called “apparent race- and sex-based discrimination.”
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Ablaze Publishing Buys NBM
The Portland, Ore.–based Ablaze has acquired the venerable graphic novel publisher’s nearly five-decade backlist, all current contracts, and its imprint brand, with NBM founder Terry Nantier staying on as a consultant and packager.
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Patriotism and Profit at Random House During World War II
A new biography by Gayle Feldman, Nothing Random: Bennett Cerf and the Publishing House He Built, straddles 20th-century American cultural history. The following excerpt focuses on changes that would transform publishing and Cerf himself.
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Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks
After years of steady sales declines, the format—credited with democratizing book buying and reading—will largely disappear next year.
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How ‘Wreck Your Heart’ by Lori Rader-Day Got Made
An inside look at the publication process for the Edgar Award–nominated author’s latest novel.
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A Golden Age of Romance: PW Talks with Alyssa Morris
The literary agent and social media expert, whose Substack has earned her a reputation as a romance publishing guru, predicts which trends will shape the industry next year.
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Altneuland Partners with Indie Presses on U.S. Program
Starting next fall, the Berlin-based press will launch a U.S. copublishing program with New Vessel, Steerforth, and Deep Vellum with a focus on fiction and nonfiction translated from Hebrew, as well as English-language originals.
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