AGP Executive Report
Last update: 3 minutes agoRomantasy Boom: Sarah J. Maas’s new ACOTAR novel hit number one, sending bookshops into a launch frenzy: one UK event drew 6,000 ticket attempts for just 220 places. Budget Watch: The UK Autumn Budget sets aside £15 million for children’s books, but offers no decision on copyright and AI. AI and Rights: Anthropic faces allegations it trained Claude on Stanford professors’ pirated books, while a publisher dropped a Goncourt contender over AI traces in its manuscript. Meta also delayed website-crawling terms after a publisher backlash. Publishing Under Pressure: A Russian strike on a Kharkiv publisher’s warehouse disrupted November releases; Catapult’s sale has left its spring 2027 books and staff in transition. Industry News: Five titles made the shortlist for the 2026 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize, and former Affirm Press colleagues launched Manuka Books.
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