Ex-MP claims her account will lay bare ‘a corruption of democracy deep at the heart of the Conservative Party and in Downing Street’
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Thursday, August 31, 2023
UK publishers urge Sunak to protect works ingested by AI models
Publishers Association’s call comes as ChatGPT firm argues US lawsuit ‘misconceives scope’ of copyright law
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 30, 2023
MPs criticise UK government’s handling of copyright policy related to AI
A report said a proposed exemption that would allow artificial intelligence developers free use of copyrighted books and music for training demonstrated ‘a clear lack of understanding’
Continue reading...Ukraine’s Zelenskiy ‘bombed’ first White House meeting with Biden, book says
Demand to join Nato, coupled with claim France and Germany would leave, ‘pissed off’ US president, author Franklin Foer reports
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Biden privately admitted feeling ‘tired’ amid concerns about his age, book says
Franklin Foer, author of The Last Politician, also says experience and calming presence make US president ‘a man for his age’
Continue reading...Gboyega Odubanjo: police appeal for help over missing poet
Award-winning poet last seen in early hours of Saturday morning in Kelmarsh, Northamptonshire
Continue reading...Sunday, August 27, 2023
Grieving Wordsworth found solace in poignant shipwreck treasure after brother’s death
When the Romantic poet’s younger brother John died at sea, marine artefacts helped him bear the loss, research reveals
Continue reading...Friday, August 25, 2023
‘Overrun with rats’: Charles Dickens Museum illuminates author’s factory stint
Dickens was taken out of school aged 11 to work in a London blacking factory as his father sank into debt
Continue reading...Thursday, August 24, 2023
Alice Winn wins 2023 Waterstones debut fiction prize for In Memoriam
Novel described as ‘truly stunning feat of fiction’ tells love story of two first world war soldiers
Continue reading...Most parents want more time reading to young children, study shows
1,000-parent survey also found 33% lack the confidence to read to their child, despite not seeing the activity as a chore
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 22, 2023
‘This power is reaching a natural end’: Michael Wolff’s new book predicts the fall of Fox News
The Fall will be published next month and promises to chronicle the rightwing network and the Murdoch family’s downfall
Continue reading...Zadie Smith, Stephen King and Rachel Cusk’s pirated works used to train AI
Works by thousands of authors also including Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami and Jonathan Franzen fed into models run by firms including Meta and Bloomberg
Continue reading...Friday, August 18, 2023
‘Knowledge is power’: new app helps US teens read books banned in school
Digital Public Public Library fights back against rightwing censorship with resource that works through geo-targeting
Continue reading...Thursday, August 17, 2023
Michael Lewis says Hollywood is to blame for Blind Side adoption row
- Author wrote book about Michael Oher and Tuohy family
- Oher says family deceived him over events depicted in book
Wednesday, August 16, 2023
Ned Beauman wins Arthur C Clarke award for ‘bleakly funny’ novel
The prize for the year’s best science fiction novel was given to Venemous Lumpsucker, a satire which addresses ‘humanity’s shortsighted self-interest’
Continue reading...Stephen King says he may continue the Talisman series
The book would continue the two he wrote with the late Peter Straub, while new stories are due next year
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Much-hyped biography of Tucker Carlson struggles to sell
Tucker by Chadwick Moore sells just 3,227 copies in first week after publication on 1 August, Publishers Weekly figures reveal
Continue reading...Monday, August 14, 2023
Jacqueline Wilson says rewriting children’s books can be justified
Young people sometimes lack ‘sense of history’ to read texts with dated language, argues bestselling author
Continue reading...Sunday, August 13, 2023
Author walks out of Edinburgh book festival over sponsor’s fossil fuel links
Activist Mikaela Loach staged a protest over investment firm’s ‘bankrolling’ of the climate crisis
Continue reading...Saturday, August 12, 2023
Blistering barnacles! Tintin mystery in Brussels after bust of Hergé vanishes
The disappearance of a statue of the comic book artist in his Belgian birthplace was thought to be an act of decolonisation
Continue reading...Friday, August 11, 2023
‘Unparalleled treasure trove’ of 16th-century texts worth $25m up for auction
The collection of T Kimball Brooker comprises more than 1,300 books, including an early manuscript of Leonardo da Vinci’s treatise on painting
Continue reading...Authors threaten boycott of Edinburgh book festival over sponsors’ fossil fuel links
An open letter signed by more than 50 authors including Zadie Smith, Ali Smith and Katherine Rundell calls for investment firm Baillie Gifford to be dropped as main sponsor for 2024
Continue reading...Thursday, August 10, 2023
The Gruffalo is likely to be a child’s first book, UK survey finds
Collecting data from 2,000 parents, retailer The Works found the bestseller was the most popular choice when parents pick what to read to their children for the first time
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Amazon removes books ‘generated by AI’ for sale under author’s name
Jane Friedman claims she had to fight against Amazon’s refusal to remove the misattributed titles because she had not trademarked her name
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 8, 2023
I have been sexually assaulted by five MPs, says Labour’s Chris Bryant
Standards committee chair says in new book he has been groped by fellow MPs on several occasions
Continue reading...Monday, August 7, 2023
Simon & Schuster sold to private equity firm KKR for $1.62bn
Paramount Global has sold the publisher after a federal judge blocked rival Penguin Random House from buying it
Continue reading...Report finds YouTube more popular than TikTok for young book buyers
Despite recent stories about the popularity of BookTok, Neilsen’s survey found more of those aged between 14-25 searched YouTube for new reads
Continue reading...Sunday, August 6, 2023
‘What we publish will stay with you’: inside a small but mighty literary hit factory
Bluemoose publishes no more than 10 books a year but Kevin Duffy knows how to pick a winner
Continue reading...Friday, August 4, 2023
Bloomsbury USA president dies in speedboat collision in Italy
Adrienne Vaughan was on family holiday and reportedly fell overboard when speedboat collided with a sailboat
Continue reading...New Stephen Hawking children’s book to be published next year
You and the Universe, adapted from his posthumous 2020 Earth Day message, will bring the late physicist’s ‘extraordinary work to life for readers of all ages’
Continue reading...Greta Thunberg accuses Edinburgh book festival sponsor of ‘greenwashing’
Climate activist pulls out of event, saying sponsor Baillie Gifford invests heavily in fossil fuel industry
Continue reading...Thursday, August 3, 2023
Mountbattens’ biographer claims he has been ‘spied on by the British state’
Andrew Lownie, a historian seeking access to diaries and documents, says his activities have been monitored
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Lunar Codex: 30,000 digitised creative works to be archived on moon
Collection to include images, objects, magazines, books, podcasts, movies and music from 157 countries
Continue reading...Booker prize reveals ‘original and thrilling’ 2023 longlist
Previously nominated authors Sebastian Barry, Tan Twan Eng and Paul Murray join 13-strong field including four debuts
• Irish writers, debuts – and groundbreaking sci-fi: the Booker longlist in depth