AGP Executive Report
Last update: 12 hours agoAccessibility in Publishing: Bloomsbury will release a dyslexia-friendly edition of Stephen Graham and Orly Klein’s Letters to Our Sons on the same day as the standard book, using clearer larger type, more spacing, and cream paper; the program will expand to 13 more titles in 2026. Awards & Reading Culture: The Washington Center for the Book named 2026 Washington State Book Award winners across seven categories, including Sinkhole, and Other Inexplicable Voids (fiction) and Eve (general nonfiction/biography). New Books & Publishing Moves: HarperCollins will publish Quentin Tarantino’s The Adventures of Cliff Booth on Dec. 8, timed around the film release cycle; Blackstone Publishing will reissue Bobby Seale’s Seize the Time and publish his new memoir I, Bobby. Genocide Scholarship: Bloomsbury published The Concentration Camps of the Armenian Genocide, a 500-page edited collection focused on camp formation and major sites. AI & Money: A report on AI agents paying for real services finds only a small share of settlements look like genuine commerce, challenging hype about machine-to-machine spending. Local Book Events: Apalachicola’s Margaret Key Public Library hosts a Sept. 26 $5 fill-a-bag sale benefiting the library.
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