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British novelists criticise government over AI ‘theft’

Jan 14 2025: Kate Mosse and Richard Osman have hit back at Labour’s plan to give artificial intelligence companies broad freedoms to mine artistic works for data, saying it could destroy growth in creative fields and amount to theft.

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Colin Barrett’s Wild Houses among winners of Nero book awards

Jan 14 2025: Booker longlisted author Colin Barrett has won the Nero book award for debut fiction for his novel Wild Houses.

Meanwhile Adam S Leslie has won in the fiction category for Lost in the Garden, while Guardian Long Reads contributor Sophie Elmhirst’s Maurice and Maralyn...

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Brush fires, severe weather threaten L.A. bookstores and publishers

Jan 09 2025: Bookstores and publishers located in the Los Angeles metro area were among those closed or evacuated on January 8 due to uncontained brush fires, power outages, and extreme winds that have devastated the region.

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Park & Fine, Brower merge

Jan 07 2025: Park & Fine Literary and Media and Brower Literary & Management have merged to form Park, Fine & Brower Literary Management. The new agency represents more than 300 authors of all genres and in all stages of their careers, with Park & Fine cofounder Celeste Fine and ...

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Louisiana supreme court revives librarian Amanda Jones’s defamation suit

Dec 31 2024: Louisiana librarian and freedom to read advocate Amanda Jones is ending 2024 with a major legal victory. On December 27, the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that Jones’s 2022 defamation case against two local men who accused her of pushing pornography to children can ...

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Freedom to read advocates celebrate a major legal victory in Arkansas

Dec 23 2024: In a highly anticipated decision, a federal judge in Arkansas has permanently struck down two key provisions of Arkansas’s controversial “harmful to minors” law, known as Act 372, finding the law to be unconstitutional.

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Booksellers predict Orbital by Samantha Harvey will be UK No 1 bestselling book

Dec 20 2024: This year’s Booker prize winner will be the Christmas No 1 bestseller, predict UK booksellers.

The Booksellers Association (BA) asked bookshop staff which book they think could reach the festive top spot, and Orbital by Samantha Harvey was the most popular response.

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Lerner Publishing Group acquires Soaring Kite Books

Dec 17 2024: Lerner Publishing Group announced on Monday that the Minneapolis children’s publisher is acquiring Soaring Kite Books; the acquisition will be effective as of January 1. Soaring Kite was founded in Washington, D.C., by marketing executive Ceece Kelley in 2020, with a ...

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