AGP Executive Report
Last update: 40 minutes agoNobel Prize: Canadian poet Anne Carson won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. The award spotlights a boundary-crossing body of work spanning poetry, essays, drama and translation, including Autobiography of Red. Frankfurt Book Fair: Publishers from Bulgaria, Azerbaijan and Korea are using the fair to showcase books and pursue international partnerships, even as the European Publishers Federation warns that declining reading is threatening the book trade, with turnover down 30%. AI and Copyright: A U.S. federal court ruled that AI training on copyrighted books is fair use, while a Japanese wholesaler’s admission that it sold books to Anthropic has fueled publisher backlash. Books Under Attack: A Russian strike destroyed a Kyiv publishing warehouse, reportedly putting tens of thousands of books at risk—another blow after the publisher had rebuilt following an earlier attack. Book Bans: U.S. school book removals have reached a record high, with more than 12,000 titles affected, intensifying concerns about access and censorship.
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