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AI translation service launched for fiction writers and publishers prompts dismay among translators

Jul 08 2025: An AI fiction translation service aimed at both traditional publishers and self-published authors has been launched in the UK. GlobeScribe.ai is currently charging $100 per book, per language for use of its translation services.

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Reform councillor’s boast about removing ‘trans-ideological’ books from children’s library sections falls flat

Jul 04 2025: A boast by a Reform UK councillor that he ensured the removal of “trans-ideological material and books” from the children’s section of his county’s libraries has fallen flat after it emerged that no such material ever existed there.

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ALA 2025: AI tech, DIY zines capture librarians’ attention

Jul 02 2025: Participants at the American Library Association’s Annual Conference in Philadelphia last week sampled the profession’s digital technologies as well as hands-on innovations available in library spaces. From breakout meeting rooms to the Library Marketplace, which this ...

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ALA 2025: librarians chart a course for the future amid ‘existential threat’

Jun 30 2025: The American Library Association’s 2025 Annual Conference, held in Philadelphia from June 26–30, found attendees simultaneously anxious about the future and in a fighting mood, with multiple presenters describing librarians as the “frontlines” and the “lifelines” of ...

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Meta wins AI copyright case, but judge writes roadmap for authors’ revenge

Jun 26 2025: U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria granted summary judgment to Meta in a case brought by 13 authors, including Ta-Nehisi Coates, Sarah Silverman, and Pulitzer Prize winners Junot Díaz and Andrew Sean Greer, who alleged the company illegally used their books to train its...

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Russia destroys publishing house in Kyiv following book festival

Jun 24 2025: A Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv on June 17 destroyed a Ukrainian publishing house and damaged several other book-related businesses, the Ukrainian publishing industry news service Chytomo has reported. Ukrainian Priority Publishing was completely destroyed ...

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The politics of printing in China

Jun 20 2025: Comics journalist Joe Sacco’s next book, The Once and Future Riot, was supposed to hit bookstore shelves in September, but it’s running about a month late. Publication scheduling delays are neither ideal nor uncommon—but the holdup on Sacco’s latest, which PW’s starred ...

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BookCon will return in 2026

Jun 18 2025: Five years after “retiring” BookCon and BookExpo, ReedPop has announced—to the surprise of many in the book business—that it plans to revive BookCon. The new iteration of the consumer-facing show is slated for April 18-19, 2026, returning to its former home in New York ...

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