Aug 27 2025: In an announcement that stunned industry veterans who remember publishing’s drawn-out fair use battle with Google, Anthropic has reportedly reached a preliminary agreement with attorneys representing authors and publishers in a class action lawsuit that was only ...
Aug 25 2025: As the calendar ticks toward September 30 and the end of fiscal 2025, at which time U.S. legislators will determine FY 2026 appropriations for public institutions, 21 states’ attorneys general have asked the U.S. District Court of Rhode Island to enter a summary ...
Aug 22 2025: These days, many people in the book business are taking the proverb “necessity is the mother of invention” more seriously than ever. Buffeted by inflation, flat sales, and consolidation in such areas as distribution and retailing, publishers are looking for different ...
Aug 21 2025: According to a study cited by Publisher’s Weekly, " A new survey of adult reading habits found that the percentage of people who sit down with a book for pleasure on any given day has reached a 20-year low, dipping to 16…
Aug 20 2025: The number of Americans who read for pleasure has fallen by 40%, according to a new study.
Researchers at the University of Florida and University College London have found that between 2003 and 2023, daily reading for reasons other than work and study fell by about ...
Aug 15 2025: Right to read advocates hailed a Florida court's ringing defense of First Amendment rights this week. On August 13, U.S. District Court Judge Carlos E. Mendoza of the Middle District of Florida ruled in favor of plaintiffs in Penguin Random House v. Gibson, a lawsuit ...
Aug 12 2025: The class action lawsuit filed against Anthropic charging the AI company with illegally using pirated books to train its large language models continue to unfold at a rapid pace. On July 31, Anthropic filed an appeal asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth ...
Aug 08 2025: Nine Florida counties have removed hundreds of books from public school classrooms and libraries before the start of the 2025–2026 school year, according to a report from PEN America. Columbia, Escambia, Hillsborough, Orange, Osceola, Palm Beach, Pasco, Pinellas, and St...
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