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In what attorneys are calling one of the largest copyright recovery settlements in U.S. history, Anthropic has agreed to pay out $1.5 billion to rightsholders whose titles the AI company pirated to train its large language model, with a hearing for preliminary court approval set for today. Apple could soon be the next tech company to be put on trial for copyright infringement after authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson filed a proposed class-action lawsuit on Friday, also accusing it of piracy in its AI training. The National Book Festival, held on Saturday in Washington, D.C., went off without a hitch despite a nearby protest against the National Guard’s presence in the capital and the Trump administration’s ongoing assault on the Library of Congress. Students in Louisville, Ky., are checking out library books at record rates after their public school district instituted a cellphone ban, reports Wave News. Patreon has revamped its newsletter functionality in an attempt to woo popular writers away from Substack, per Adweek. New York magazine questions whether media outlets even want to publish cultural criticism anymore amid an ever-shrinking market for the genre. For Lit Hub, Viking veteran Paul Slovak rounds up some of the imprint’s most surprising titles on the eve of its centenary. Over at the New Yorker, Carmen Maria Machado revisits Jacqueline Harpman’s I Who Have Never Known Men, the 1995 dystopian novel that’s gotten a second life on BookTok. The Nation sits down with Rebecca Solnit to talk writing and reading in an anti-book political moment. And BookPage founder Michael Alan Zibart has died at 78.
Authors and publishers hope the agreement will send a signal to AI companies to respect copyright and to pay for the use of copyrighted materials in training their large language models. Some 500,000 works are covered by the settlement, with each work eligible to receive about $3,000. more »
On Friday, authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Apple accusing the company of illegally using their books to train its AI. The filing coincided with the announcement of Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement in a similar case. more »
The Library of Congress’s 25th annual event on Saturday enlightened and entertained tens of thousands of book lovers, perhaps distracting momentarily from the political pressures facing the world’s largest library. more »
Written for nine- to twelve-year-olds—and relevant whether or not they already have smartphones or social media accounts—this engaging guide is packed with surprising facts, a graphic novel, interactive challenges, secrets that tech leaders don't want kids to know, and real-life anecdotes from young adults. (Sponsored) More »
In the last two years, global illiteracy rates have increased by an average of 2.2%, with 773 million people worldwide unable to read a single word, according to the World Literacy Foundation. more »
Memoirs from three comedians land at Tiny Reparations, Random House, and Black Privilege; three publishing professionals past or present ink agreements; and more in this week’s book deals. more »
Babel author R.F. Kuang tops our hardcover fiction list with the deluxe edition of Katabasis. Plus Naptime Kitchen blogger Kate Strickler debuts with I Just Wish I Had a Bigger Kitchen, and Logan Karlie’s self-published YA gothic romantasy Dream by the Shadows makes its traditional pub debut. more »
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See what we published in this week’s print issue of Publishers Weekly, including our spotlight on middle grade publishing and more. »
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The Shanghai Illustration & Pop Show, launched by BolognaFiere’s Chinese subsidiary and inspired by the Bologna Children’s Book Fair’s flagship Illustrators Exhibition, will open in May 2026. It will host some 300 exhibitors from 10 countries and regions. more »
We spoke with Sibert Award–winning author Nicholas Day about the genesis and aim of his latest work of narrative nonfiction, A World Without Summer, and how the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815 inspired such artistic masterpieces as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. more »
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Job Moves
- Mackenzie Bronk has been promoted to sales director for national accounts at Hachette.
- Grace Towery has been promoted to editor at Hanover Square Press.
- Lismarie Cuevas has been promoted to assistant manager of international sales at Sourcebooks.
- Chelsey Moler Ford has been promoted to managing editor for children’s at Sourcebooks.
- Lauren Klouda has joined Sourcebooks as director of retail marketing and creative services.
- Marion Jenkins, formerly strategic partner manager at Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing, is joining Candlewick Press, Holiday House, and Peachtree as senior national account manager to Amazon.
- Thomas Gengozian, formerly key account sales manager at Industry Print, is joining Candlewick Press, Holiday House, and Peachtree as national account manager to Readerlink.
- Elizabeth Pham Janowski is being promoted to assistant editor at Viking.
Awards News
- BPL Prize Winners: Emet North’s In Universes and Mosab Abu Toha’s Forest of Noise have won the 2025 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize for Fiction and Nonfiction, respectively.
Bookstore News
- Kids’ Bookshop to Open in Massachusetts: Turtle Books will open this October in Brookline Village.
- New Bookstore Lands in Kentucky: Birdwhistell Books will open in Elizabethtown this week.
- Powell’s Faces AI Controversy: The Portland bookstore drew backlash online after selling merchandise that appeared to have been created with the help of AI.
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Our Latest Starred ReviewsCheck out all the books to receive starred reviews in PW that are hitting bookstore shelves this week. more »
Katabasis (deluxe ed.) by R.F. Kuang is the #1 title on our adult hardcover fiction bestseller list. See the full list »
‘Beasts of the Sea’ by Iida Turpeinen, trans. from the Finnish by David Hackston“Turpeinen’s fantastic debut interweaves the fate of an extinct aquatic species with the stories of the people who discovered and destroyed it.... This tour de force of science and storytelling is not to be missed.” more »
Picture of the Day
The inaugural K-Book Market was held in Manhattan last week, from September 4–5. During the two-day, in-person event, 15 of Korea’s top publishers and a number of Korean literary agents gathered at the NYC Seminar and Conference Center Event Hall for one-on-one meetings and networking.
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