AGP Executive Report
Last update: 12 hours agoBook Fairs: Ahmedabad’s international festival opened with 700 stalls and 125 publishers. At Sharjah’s comics conference, creators shared lessons on bringing independent titles to global audiences. AI and Authorship: AI scrutiny is reshaping publishing: a French publisher dropped a Goncourt contender over suspected AI traces, while South African author Coral Hart defended publishing 370 AI-assisted books in 20 months. The Harry Potter publisher says AI-written books need not be inevitable, even as publishers admit detection is difficult. Industry Shifts: Catapult’s sale leaves staff facing layoffs and spring titles in limbo. Bloomsbury’s profits fell as it develops an AI strategy, and Meta delayed new website-crawling terms after publisher backlash. Awards and Access: East Anglian and An Post book award shortlists are out, while ACE and Inpress will fund 12 small publishers’ places at London Book Fair 2027.
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