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Etsy sellers are turning free fanfiction into printed and bound physical books [against the wishes of the authors], and listing them for sale for more than $100 per book fiction.fan Article 1398 words 59 votes
The Norway model: How the Scandinavian country became a literary powerhouse literature Article 8178 words 8 votes
Scholastic to separate books on race, gender and sexuality for US book fairs Article 627 words 26 votes
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A publisher published a book on educational technology generated by AI. Authors of a cited source found plagiarism Article 690 words, published Sep 15 2023 10 votes
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The Talented Mr. Bernardini - A young Italian is accused of pulling off the book world’s most perplexing crime. Who is he? Article 3158 words, published Feb 4 2022 7 votes
How to save the novel - self-censorship and problematic language in modern fiction fiction Article 1288 words, published Jun 20 2021 4 votes
Printer jam: Serious supply issues disrupt the book industry’s 2020 fall season Article 1325 words, published Aug 27 2020 4 votes
Harlan Ellison's The Last Dangerous Visions may finally be published, after five-decade wait science fiction Article 685 words 7 votes
Brandon Sanderson: 'After a dozen rejected novels, you think maybe this isn’t for you' Article 1492 words, published Jul 23 2020 9 votes
Four major US publishers sue Internet Archive for copyright infringement, alleging that it has illegally offered more than a million scanned works to the public libraries Article 665 words 30 votes
Publisher drops Woody Allen's book after Ronan Farrow objects and employees walk out Article 805 words 7 votes
Nedim Yasar, a former gang leader who had turned his back on crime, was shot dead in Copenhagen just as a book about his life was published Article 577 words 6 votes
As a 28-year-old Latino, I'm shocked my new novel, Memoirs of a Middle-Aged White Lady, has been so poorly received Article 684 words, published Jan 31 2020 25 votes
E-books at libraries are a huge hit, leading to long waits, reader hacks and worried publishers libraries Article 1806 words 25 votes
How to be a professional author and not die screaming and starving in a lightless abyss Article 3265 words 15 votes
John W. Campbell Award is renamed after winner criticizes him science fiction Article 722 words 12 votes
“I did not die. I did not go to heaven.”: How the controversy around a Christian bestseller engulfed the evangelical publishing industry—and tore a family apart. Article 6205 words 10 votes
Kosoko Jackson’s book scandal suggests YA Twitter is getting uglier fiction.young adult Article 1140 words, published Mar 4 2019 12 votes
James Kelman on the Booker, class and literary elitism Article 1926 words, published Mar 13 2019 4 votes
Why Alexandre Dumas, author of The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers, considered his magnum opus to be a 1,150-page cookbook literature Article 879 words 4 votes
Must writers be moral? Their contracts may require it Article 1935 words, published Jan 4 2019 8 votes
Tiny books fit in one hand. Will they change the way we read? Article 1423 words, published Oct 29 2018 8 votes
How Tor.com went from website to publisher of sci-fi’s most innovative stories fiction science fiction Article 886 words 17 votes
This Buddhist Foundation prints and distributes Dharma books free of charge. If you know someone (or a library!) who would enjoy access to those books, feel free to take a look at the website. libraries Link 4 votes
Bad romance - To cash in on Kindle Unlimited, a cabal of authors gamed Amazon's algorithm fiction Article 6679 words, published Jul 16 2018 10 votes