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Ruled Out
Publishers scored a victory in their copyright lawsuit against Anna’s Archive, with a federal court ordering the pirate site to halt its operations amid concerns that it’s been illegally selling copyrighted books to AI developers. Following his controversial comments on the Today show, Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt avoided issuing a blanket ban on AI-generated books in his stores, but clarified that the company does not currently sell any and does not anticipate much demand for them. Meanwhile, the AAP is teaming with an AI protection platform to curb the proliferation of unlicensed AI-generated audiobooks on sites like YouTube. In other news, OpenAI is reportedly preparing to file as a publicly traded company, per the New York Times. A stage adaptation of Freida McFadden’s The Housemaid is in the works, and Hulu inked a first-look deal with romance publisher 831 Stories, starting with a series adaptation of Alexandra Romanoff’s Big Fan novels, per the Hollywood Reporter. Renate Reinsve has been tapped to star in Mia Hansen-Løve’s Mary Wollstonecraft biopic, Deadline reports. As Hollywood rushes to adapt romantasy blockbusters, Puck wonders why none of the streaming giants have been able to successfully bring the genre du jour to screens. Slate unpacks the online controversy surrounding R.F. Kuang’s newest novel. Douglas Stuart’s John of John, a newly minted Oprah’s Book Club pick, made its debut on the IPC’s Indie Press Top 40 list this week. And Fulcrum Publishing founder Bob Baron has died at 92.
Judge Jed S. Rakoff ordered the pirate site to immediately stop copying and selling copyrighted books and journals that it had illegally gathered. In their complaint, publishers noted that many tech companies have used such sites to acquire content to train AI. more »
In explaining remarks he made on the Today show, the Barnes & Noble CEO refrained from issuing a blanket ban on AI-generated books, but noted that, as far as he is aware, the company does not sell them. He also affirmed B&N’s “vigilance not to sell AI-generated books that masquerade to be by real authors.” more »
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The Association of American Publishers is looking to stem the tide of illegal AI-generated audiobooks, which have proliferated on sites like YouTube, through its new partnership with the Chicago-based AI licensing and protection platform. more »
Baron’s Denver-based press, which he started in 1984, specializes in books on the American West, conservation, and Native American culture—topics to which Baron also devoted himself via philanthropic and public service work throughout his life. He died on April 24. more »
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The audiobook streamer and the nonprofit, which helps self-published romance authors create their first audiobook, will fund eight underrepresented authors’ audiobooks and provide them with end-to-end production support. more »
The Guild is collecting information from authors whose publishers failed to register their books with the U.S. Copyright Office, and who believe they were excluded from the Bartz v. Anthropic class action settlement as a result. more »
The ISBN agency’s global International Standard Name Identifier service will allow individuals and organizations from the book industry and other creative sectors to “obtain ISNIs quickly and efficiently.” more »
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Job Moves
- Bethany Wasik has been promoted to editor-in-chief of Cornell University Press.
- Brittany Griffiths, most recently senior manager of operations at Brown Books Publishing Group, will join Cornell University Press as director of editorial, design, and production.
- Michelle Zeng has been promoted to sales manager at Bloomsbury.
- Tori Clayton has been promoted to subsidiary rights manager at Trellis Literary Management.
- Allison Malecha has been promoted to equity partner at Trellis Literary Management.
Bookstore News
- Oklahoma Bookstore Changes Hands: Best of Books in Edmond has been taken over by a longtime employee.
- New Indie to Touch Down in Maryland: The Brady Readery is set to open in Laytonsville this summer.
- New Jersey Bakery Gets Bookish: The owner of Gio’s Bakery in Califon will open a bookshop on the building’s second floor.
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Theo of Golden by Allen Levi is the #1 title on our trade paperback bestseller list. See the full list »
‘Nebraska’ by Monica Datta“Datta delivers a whip-smart Nabokovian novel of filicide and psychoanalysis.... It’s endlessly stimulating.” more »
Picture of the Day
On May 14, the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center hosted an evening celebrating the work of book critics as part of its 10-year anniversary programming at the Arts Club of Washington in Washington, D.C. In attendance were (front, from l.) Sean Murphy, founder of 1455 Literary Arts; Holly Smith, editor-in-chief of the Washington Independent Review of Books; former Washington Post book critics Michael Dirda and Ron Charles; (back, from l.) Ecco’s VP of publicity Sonya Cheuse; author Leeya Mehta; and author, journalist, and host Eric Weiner.
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