AGP Executive Report
Last update: 11 hours agoPublishing Trade: Sharjah’s international publishers’ programme brings 200 publishers from 17 countries together, with a conference running Nov. 1–3 focused on rights, marketing, translation and finding global audiences for Arabic content. Copyright & Pressures: Publishers are urging a U.S. court to reject OpenAI’s fair-use defence in a copyright case; a Russian strike on a Kharkiv publisher’s warehouse has also disrupted books due out in November. Book Market: Sarah J. Maas’s latest ACOTAR novel sold 1.7 million copies on release day, setting a series record. Waterstones has revealed its 20-title Book of the Year shortlist. Houdini at 100: A newly published essay and fresh books revisit the magician’s legacy and disputed death, marking the centenary of his passing.
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