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📚 Newly unsealed files are putting AI and copyright back in the spotlight. ⚖️ Documents cited in the Authors Guild’s cop...
09/25/2026

📚 Newly unsealed files are putting AI and copyright back in the spotlight. ⚖️

Documents cited in the Authors Guild’s copyright case against OpenAI and Microsoft contain internal comments about the use of copyrighted books to train AI systems, concerns about authors being displaced, and the potential impact of AI-generated books on publishing jobs.

The filings also point to OpenAI’s use of LibGen, while raising bigger questions about copyright, authorship, creative labor, and the future of publishing.

The legal battle is ongoing, but these newly public documents are adding another layer to the industry’s AI reckoning. 👀

Read the full story from Publishers Weekly here: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyright/article/101300-unsealed-files-show-open-ai-microsoft-knew-copying-was-illegal-and-could-hurt-authors.html

Newly unsealed comments made in briefs filed by Open AI and Microsoft reveal that executives knew they were illegally training their products on copyrighted books and that AI generated books would likely displace human-authored books in the market.

09/24/2026

Publishing is having its AI reckoning.

🤖 Four years after ChatGPT entered the public conversation, AI has moved from industry buzzword to everyday publishing tool, helping with everything from metadata and proofreading to royalty statements, formatting, and customer service. 📈

But the bigger questions are still wide open: Where should publishers draw the line around creative work? How can they navigate AI-generated submissions? And what does copyright and licensing look like in an AI-powered publishing ecosystem?

The industry may not have all the answers yet. But one thing is clear: the conversation is far from over.

Read the full story from Publishers Weekly here: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/101215-publishing-s-ai-reckoning.html

The industry is learning to live with the disruptive technology, for better and for worse.

What happens to books that don’t sell?✨Today on Podcast Episodes We Love, 404 Media reporters follow up on their investi...
09/23/2026

What happens to books that don’t sell?

✨Today on Podcast Episodes We Love, 404 Media reporters follow up on their investigation into Amazon’s book-destruction practices and speak with a former warehouse worker who says they were involved in destroying books that were being scanned in connection with Amazon’s AI efforts. ✨

The conversation digs into books, AI training, digitization, and what happens to physical works when technology changes how we use them.

For the publishing industry, it raises a fascinating—and uncomfortable—question: What happens when the physical book becomes data?

Listen to the full episode from 404 Media here: https://www.404media.co/podcast-we-spoke-to-an-amazon-worker-destroying-books-for-ai/

A follow up to the Amazon destroying books for AI story, why a bunch of names keep appearing in AI-generated papers, and ICE's latest spending spree.

What if your ebook could talk back?🤖 Google has launched Expert Intelligence (EI), a new AI feature for ebooks purchased...
09/22/2026

What if your ebook could talk back?

🤖 Google has launched Expert Intelligence (EI), a new AI feature for ebooks purchased through Google Play Books. 👀

Readers can ask questions about a book, generate quizzes, infographics, and slide decks, and get answers grounded specifically in the text they purchased—not information pulled from an AI model’s broader training data.

The launch includes 100,000+ English-language books, with participating publishers including Macmillan, Penguin Random House, Bloomsbury, Johns Hopkins University Press, and O’Reilly Media.

For publishers and authors, the bigger conversation may be copyright + AI + reader engagement. Could interactive AI become the next evolution of the ebook?

Read the full story from Publishers Weekly: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/101136-google-launches-expert-intelligence-adding-interactivity-to-e-books.html

Expert Intelligence lets readers query e-books bought from the Google Play store, along with other features, and includes more than 100,000 titles, mostly trade nonfiction, from such publishers as Penguin Random House, Macmillan, and Bloomsbury.

📚 Who is the American book buyer in 2026?A new consumer study aims to find out.David Walter, formerly of Nielsen, NPD Gr...
09/21/2026

📚 Who is the American book buyer in 2026?

A new consumer study aims to find out.

David Walter, formerly of Nielsen, NPD Group, and Circana, has launched BookInsights.ai and its first product, Consumer Compass, a survey of 5,000 book buyers designed to take a closer look at how readers discover, buy, and consume books today.

The study will explore everything from BookTok and social discovery to print, ebooks, audio, subscriptions, teen readers, and AI-generated content. 🤖

With the publishing landscape changing fast, the big question is: what does the book buyer actually look like now? Full results are expected in early November.

Read the full interview with Publishers Weekly here: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/101204-david-walter-launches-study-of-american-book-buyers.html

The Circana BookScan veteran’s new company, Bookinsights.ai, is rolling out Consumer Compass, a comprehensive survey of 5,000 consumers’ buying habits, modes of discovery, genre preferences, and more, with results expected in early November.

✨ Dolly Parton wanted to be remembered as the “book lady.” And she made sure the books kept coming. 💗Through Imagination...
09/18/2026

✨ Dolly Parton wanted to be remembered as the “book lady.” And she made sure the books kept coming. 💗

Through Imagination Library, launched in 1995, more than 330 million books have been placed in the hands of children across the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia, and Ireland. By September, that number is expected to surpass 336 million.
The program sends children a free book every month from birth through age 5, giving kids something that can feel surprisingly powerful: a book with their own name on it.

And perhaps the most fitting part of her legacy? Dolly didn't build something that simply needed to be remembered. She built something designed to keep reaching readers.

That's a legacy worth passing on!

For publishing, it’s a powerful reminder: sometimes the most lasting impact of a book is the reader it creates.

🔗 Read the full Los Angeles Times story: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2026-08-26/dolly-partons-contributions-to-literacy-will-outlive-star

Dolly Parton spent decades gifting books to millions of children. Following her death at 80, the Dollywood Foundation plans to carry her mission with Imagination Library forward.

📚 Are students reading fewer books in school?A new Washington Post report looks at the growing shift from full-length no...
09/17/2026

📚 Are students reading fewer books in school?

A new Washington Post report looks at the growing shift from full-length novels to excerpts and shorter texts in middle and high school English classrooms.

The reasons aren't exactly simple: standardized testing, budget constraints, limited classroom time, and different student reading levels are all part of the picture. And researchers say there's not enough evidence to definitively declare one approach better than the other.

But here's the fascinating part for anyone who cares about books and literacy: One researcher argues that reading whole books can help students develop reading stamina, confidence, and the ability to form and defend ideas—while excerpts can expose students to more texts and provide useful opportunities for comparison and analysis.

So the real question may be: How do we make room for both?

🔗 Read the full story from The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026/08/26/schools-are-assigning-fewer-novels-are-excerpts-just-good/

Standardized testing, budget cuts and time constraints factor into decisions over whether students read more books or more excerpts.

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