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- Penguin Random House underscores copyright protection in AI rebuff https://www.thebookseller.com/news/penguin-random-house-underscores-copyright-protection-in-ai-rebuff 56 comments
- Academics shocked after T&F sells access to their research to Microsoft AI https://www.thebookseller.com/news/academic-authors-shocked-after-taylor--francis-sells-access-to-their-research-to-microsoft-ai 92 comments
- Society of Authors condemns ‘appalling’ use of pirated books in AI training https://www.thebookseller.com/news/society-of-authors-condemns-appalling-use-of-pirated-books-in-ai-training 6 comments technology
- Unbound goes into administration as Archna Sharma and John Mitchinson launch new publisher https://www.thebookseller.com/news/unbound-goes-into-administration-as-archna-sharma-and-john-mitchinson-launch-new-publisher 11 comments books
- Academic authors 'shocked' after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AI https://www.thebookseller.com/news/academic-authors-shocked-after-taylor--francis-sells-access-to-their-research-to-microsoft-ai 49 comments technology
- Joseph Delaney, Author of The Wardstone Chronicles, Dies Aged 77 https://www.thebookseller.com/news/joseph-delaney-creator-of-the-wardstone-chronicles-dies-aged-77 6 comments books
- Fraudster impersonates HarperCollins editorial director and offers book contracts https://www.thebookseller.com/news/news/fraudster-impersonates-harpercollins-editorial-director-and-offers-book-contracts 108 comments books
- Translated Fiction Soars After Booker Rule Change in 2016 https://www.thebookseller.com/features/features/translated-fiction-soars-after-booker-rule-change-in-2016 3 comments books
- Australia's largest online book retailer Booktopia has had its Facebook page's contents erased following a row between the country's government and the social media giant. https://www.thebookseller.com/news/booktopia-facebook-page-erased-australian-news-dispute-1237926 124 comments books
- PRH owner Bertelsmann buys Simon & Schuster in $2.2bn deal https://www.thebookseller.com/news/prh-owner-bertelsmann-buys-simon-schuster-22bn-deal-1227077 4 comments books
- Lonely Planet plans to shutter its London and Melbourne offices https://www.thebookseller.com/news/lonely-planet-plans-shutter-its-london-and-melbourne-offices-1199929 2 comments worldnews
- I read "The Power" by Naomi Adlerman for IWD! Any thoughts on the book? https://www.thebookseller.com/news/power-tops-obamas-best-books-2017-698986 15 comments books
- Arsene Wenger to release autobiography Autumn 2020 https://www.thebookseller.com/news/ars-ne-wenger-signs-wn-first-autobiography-1096861 55 comments soccer
- Elisabeth Moss to narrate The Handmaid's Tale audiobook https://www.thebookseller.com/news/moss-narrate-handmaids-tale-audiobook-998701 6 comments books
- Penguin rushes out Extinction Rebellion book after protests https://www.thebookseller.com/news/penguin-rushes-out-extinction-rebellion-book-after-protests-998441# 4 comments books
- EU council allows removal of VAT from e-books https://www.thebookseller.com/news/eu-council-takes-vat-e-books-869716# 9 comments books
- The 100% Unofficial Gareth Southgate Annual to be released this November https://www.thebookseller.com/news/pavillion-publish-unofficial-gareth-southgate-annual-836041 6 comments soccer
- Amazon CEO tells publishers to slash e-book prices to $0.99 to boost sales http://www.thebookseller.com/news/naggar-tells-publishers-slash-e-book-prices-631071 86 comments books
- In a world of peak attention, how can books survive? http://www.thebookseller.com/futurebook/were-reaching-peak-attention-how-can-books-survive-585556 10 comments books
- Penguin Random House UK is launching an "Inclusion Tracker" to measure the diversity of its authors and staff http://www.thebookseller.com/news/prh-launch-inclusion-tracker-bid-reflect-diversity-uk-society-2025-567926 3 comments books
- Stephen King Pens Supernatural Thriller With Son Owen http://www.thebookseller.com/news/hodder-publish-novel-father-and-son-team-stephen-king-and-owen-king-499971 3 comments books
- Bookshop owner 'charges' 50p entry fee http://www.thebookseller.com/news/bookshop-owner-charges-50p-entry-fee-458771 10 comments books
- Simon & Schuster UK will not publish controversial Milo Yiannopoulos http://www.thebookseller.com/news/ss-uk-will-not-publish-milo-yiannopoulous-457066 167 comments books
- UK's first public library threatened with closure http://www.thebookseller.com/news/first-uk-public-library-threatened-closure-394136 10 comments books
- Critics have branded 2016's Man Booker shortlist "determinedly unstarry", as one of the few household names on the longlist, JM Coetzee, was ejected from the running, with all eyes on Graeme Macrae Burnet from "tiny" publisher Contraband. http://www.thebookseller.com/news/unstarry-shortlist-offers-household-names-future-393731 5 comments books
- Redknapp shares management 'wisdom' in new book http://www.thebookseller.com/news/redknapp-shares-football-management-wisdom-new-title-371286 13 comments soccer
- Millennials 'least likely to buy e-books' http://www.thebookseller.com/news/millennials-least-likely-buy-e-books-304601 58 comments books
- German machine vends books in exchange for unwanted presents http://www.thebookseller.com/news/german-machine-vends-books-exchange-unwanted-presents-318788 274 comments books
- Ali Smith wins Baileys Women's Prize http://www.thebookseller.com/news/ali-smith-wins-baileys-womens-prize 11 comments books
- Publisher 2000AD removes all DRM http://www.thebookseller.com/news/publisher-200ad-removes-all-drm 10 comments books
- Rowling writes story about 30-plus Harry Potter http://www.thebookseller.com/news/rowling-writes-story-about-30-plus-harry-potter.html 50 comments books
- Quercus to publish fourth book in Larsson's Millennium series http://www.thebookseller.com/news/quercus-publish-fourth-Millennium-book.html 3 comments books
- New David Mitchell novel, "The Bone Clocks", out next autumn. http://www.thebookseller.com/news/new-david-mitchell-novel-out-next-autumn.html 3 comments books
- [UK]: eBook sales up 188% on the same period in 2011; Physical book sales down slightly by .4%. http://www.thebookseller.com/news/pa-half-year-fiction-e-book-sales-increased-188.html 4 comments books
- Little, Brown is going to publish J.K. Rowling's first adult novel. Release date and title to be announced later this year. http://www.thebookseller.com/news/little-brown-publish-j-k-rowlings-first-adult-novel.html 312 comments books
- 'Steve Jobs' easily tops the best seller list in its debut week with 379,000 copies sold in the U.S. http://www.thebookseller.com/news/jobs-biog-sells-379000-copies-stateside.html 3 comments apple
- Philip Pullman in defence of libraries, and the war against stupidity https://www.thebookseller.com/blogs/consider-context.html 5 comments books
- Bookshops in London haven't been touched much by the rioters. Says a lot. http://www.thebookseller.com/news/bookshops-avoid-major-damage-london-rioting.html 3 comments worldnews
- The bigger threat to IP than piracy is the threat to copyright itself. "The rise of the internet has led to a view among some people and some technology companies that copyright is just an irritant" http://www.thebookseller.com/news/coalition-must-implement-digital-economy-act-bristow.html 7 comments reddit.com
- Penguin Gets It - “The only way to fight piracy is to publish digital content across as many formats as possible, through as many channels, at a fair price. If we go for exclusive or proprietary formats, we’re completely screwed.” http://www.thebookseller.com/news/119085-rebuck-weldon-warn-over-future-threat-of-piracy.html 56 comments technology