Off the Market

Faber said it can no longer publish Sally Rooney’s books in the U.K. due to legislation that would preclude the Irish author from receiving royalties on account of her support for the group Palestine Action. Fraser Tanner, CEO of the bookstore and publisher payment platform Batch for Books, will depart at the end of this month. After six years with Simon & Schuster, Chloe Gong is heading to Penguin Random House for her next adult novel, slated for July 2027. Total publishing sales in August, though up over 2025, cooled off following double-digit increases earlier in the summer. And we rounded up this month’s biggest book club picks. In other news, following allegations of AI use and plagiarism, Haitian-Canadian writer Thélyson Orélien has admitted to plagiarizing but denied using AI to write his acclaimed novel It Was Either That or Die, reports the New York Times. Meanwhile, also in the Times, Cambridge professor Doyle D. Calhoun argues that it’s not a coincidence that recent AI authorship scandals all involve Black and brown writers. For the Dial, Snigdha Poonam delves into the lucrative world of literary scams. Netflix—which just laid off about 6% of its workforce—has released the trailer for Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew. And for Lit Hub, Josefine Kals, associate publisher and director of publicity at Summit Books, reflects on the life and work of Stephen Dixon.