AGP Executive Report
Last update: 6 hours agoPublishing and Free Expression: Faber has stopped supplying Sally Rooney’s books to UK shops, saying it cannot pay her royalties without risking a breach of laws linked to proscribed group Palestine Action. Irish officials are urging the UK government to address the case. Editorial Dispute: Penguin Random House has halted a children’s book on Palestinian history after authors Alana Hadid and Jinan Matari withdrew over disagreements about its wording on the Nakba and the October 7 attacks. Publisher Moves: Profile Books will become employee-owned as turnover reaches £19.2 million, while Pan Macmillan has acquired a stake in independent nonfiction publisher New River Books. AI and Copyright: Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion over pirated books, while Korean publishers are demanding consent and payment for AI training on books. New Release: Joni Mitchell will publish NEWS, a book of paintings she calls her “protest song,” on November 4.
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