AGP Executive Report
Last update: 9 hours agoManga Licensing Boom: Seven Seas Entertainment snapped up four new manga titles—Wandmaker of the Ruined World, Influencer Hero: After Saving Another World, I Got Rich Streaming Dungeons!, The Berserker NPC Unknowingly Destroys the World, and The Kaiju Autopsy—with English print dates stretching from February to May 2027. Print Market Signal: Japan’s Weekly Shonen Jump fell below 1 million print copies for the first time in JMPA’s tracking, underscoring how even top manga brands are feeling pressure. Publishing Under Fire: Ukrainian publisher BookChef says a Russian missile strike destroyed 100,000+ more books at a backup warehouse, forcing preorder delivery revisions and reprints. Book Awards Spotlight: Story Monsters’ Purple Dragonfly Awards named Linda Soules’ So You Want to Be A… series the 2026 $500 Grand Prize winner. AI & Books: Multiple reports this week keep circling the same alarm: tech firms are buying, shredding, and cutting up books to train AI—raising fresh questions for publishers and rights holders. Library Life: Indy Library Store’s August book sale and after-hours fundraiser highlight how libraries keep funding collections and programs through community shopping.
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