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As the fall semester approaches, school librarians are adapting their collection development practices amid new challenges posed by funding cuts and censorship. Princeton University Press is the latest publisher to make its catalog available to AI licensing platform Cashmere, which shares content with “copyright compliant” AI platforms. Abrams has tapped Jeff McLaughlin, formerly SVP at Insight Editions, to head up business development in a newly created role. And we rounded up the biggest books for adults and young readers pubbing this month. In other news, a TV series adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Trilogy is in the works at Apple, reports Deadline. A company offering to source and sell print books to tech companies to train AI has changed course following reporting by 404 Media. Posthumous publishing ventures, while helping families extend their loved one’s legacy, may signal hard times for the book business, per USA Today. The Washington Monthly is launching a new book review section—and seeking an executive editor to run it. Jane Friedman considers how the power imbalance between authors and agents complicates the Association of American Literary Agents’ latest updates to its ethics code. Afar surveys the thriving literary scene in New Orleans, while Deep Vellum founder Will Evans pens an ode to the storytellers of Dallas for D magazine. And pioneering Black children’s book author Mildred Pitts Walter has died at 103.