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Publishers sue Google over pirate sites

Jun 06 2024: In publishers' ongoing fight to shutdown pirate sites, Cengage, Elsevier, Macmillan Learning, and McGraw Hill filed a lawsuit on June 5 accusing Google of promoting pirated copies of their textbooks. In the suit, the publishers are seeking unspecified monetary damages ...

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Romance Writers of America files for bankruptcy amid bitter racism battle

May 30 2024: For decades, the Romance Writers of America (RWA) served as a champion for the mostly female authors of one of the country’s most popular – and denigrated – genres of fiction.

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Russian strike on Kharkiv printing house cripples Ukrainian book industry

May 24 2024: The Russian missile strike on Kharkiv's Vivat printing house will significantly impact Ukraine's book publishing industry, reducing its overall capacity by 30-40%, Factor-Druk printing plant owner Serhiy Polituchyi told Radio Liberty on May 24.

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Sights and insights from the 2024 U.S. book show

May 24 2024: The publishing CEOs who joined PW at the U.S. Book Show had a lot to say about artificial intelligence, from a number of perspectives. S&S CEO Jonathan Karp had the most colorful take, rejecting the suggestion that the technology is currently the “elephant in the room” ...

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U.S. book show: book biz CEOs discuss navigating rapid changes

May 23 2024: On May 22, more than 800 people from across the many sectors of the book business joined Publishers Weekly and the Association of American Literary Agents at NYU's Kimmel Center in Manhattan for the 2024 U.S. Book Show, for a day's worth of professional programming. ...

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U.S. book show 2024: meet the speakers

May 20 2024: The 2024 U.S. Book Show will address issues impacting the publishing industry, including emerging technologies and AI, diversity, and the sales, marketing, and discoverability landscape. We’ll also be looking at growth opportunities and diving into bread-and-butter ...

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PEN America holds annual gala following months of turmoil

May 17 2024: Capping off a tumultuous spring, free expression nonprofit PEN America held its annual Literary Gala on May 16 at the American Museum of National History in Manhattan's Upper West Side.

The event, expected to raise roughly $2 million in funding by the end of ...

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Alice Munro, short story master and Nobel Laureate, dies at 92

May 14 2024: Canadian author Alice Munro died at her home in Port Hope, Ontario, on May 13. She was 92. Munro, who is best known for her many short story collections depicting the lives of those living in small town Ontario, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013, when ...

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