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Tor Publishing Group and Abrams Books have each announced plans to launch their first-ever commercial fiction imprints, both set to debut in January 2027. The Trump administration is looking to appeal the permanent injunction that has thus far halted the destruction of the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences. Spotify is testing a new feature that will allow audiobook listeners to pick up where they left off in a physical book, according to the Verge. San Diego Comic-Con has reversed its policy allowing some forms of AI-generated art on the convention floor after backlash from artists, reports 404 Media. ThriftBooks is launching a “500 Billion Page Challenge” to encourage adults to read, per People. For the Guardian, author Erin Somers argues that a new wave of books by millennial authors are depicting infidelity with more nuance than ever before. And literary agent Georges Borchardt and children’s author Robert Burleigh have died at 97 and 90, respectively.