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The messy copyright implications of A.I. slop (This week in books)

May 2, 2025 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! First up, I’m going to be taking a blog break for the rest of May to recharge and do some traveling. I’m still very much open for business for manuscript edits, query/synopsis critiques, and consultations, so please feel free to reach out to me about that in the meantime. On to the […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Holly Gramazio, Marc Andreesen, Meta, Taylor Lorenz

Book orgs call out HarperCollins silence (This week in books)

April 25, 2025 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! Murdoch-owned publisher HarperCollins was a very notable non-signer of a letter from major publishers speaking out against the Trump administration’s move to eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services, an institution that provides crucial support for the nation’s museums and libraries. Advocacy organization Authors Against Book Bans, the HarperCollins union, and […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Censorship, E-Readers, George R.R. Martin, HarperCollins, J.K. Rowling, Ross Anderson

Meta argues pirated books have no economic value (This week in books)

April 18, 2025 by Nathan Bransford 3 Comments

This week! Books! The U.S. Naval Academy’s library has banned books like I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou and The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, while Mein Kampf and white supremacist texts remain on the shelves. I wonder why. Twelve students and the ACLU have sued defense secretary Pete Hegseth […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: ACLU, Alia Hanna Habib, Angie Thomas, Book Banning, Censorship, Charlie Jane Anders, Ella Creamer, Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey, Lincoln Michel, Mark Zuckerberg, Maya Angelou, Richard Curtis, Science

Tariffs, tariffs, tariffs (This week in books)

April 11, 2025 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! Tariffs, tariffs, tariffs. In a week where the whole world struggled to digest the impact of America’s ever-changing tariff landscape, the American Booksellers Association has a helpful rundown on how this will impact the publishing industry and bookstores more holistically. Books themselves are exempt from tariffs, though the components of books (paper, […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: ABA, AWP, Boris Kachka, California, Charlie Jane Anders, Dan Blank, Kate McKean, Leo Tolstoy, Randee Dawn, Sarah McCarry, Tariffs, Thomas Kinkade

Copyright still requires human authorship, but read the fine print (This week in books)

April 4, 2025 by Nathan Bransford 3 Comments

This week! Books! The Trump tariffs are tanking your 401k at the moment (if you’re lucky enough to have one), but how will they affect publishers, whose books are often printed in Asia and Europe? According to Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg at the WSJ, they don’t really know either. The U.S. Copyright Office, apparently one of […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., A.O. Scott, Amazon, Copyright, Donald Trump, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hayao Miyazaki, Libraries, Neko Case, Penguin Random House, Tariffs, TikTok, Whiskey

A Mr. Beast book is coming… (This week in books)

March 28, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! The wonderful organization We Need Diverse Books is launching the inaugural We Need Diverse Books Day next Thursday, April 3, and they have a range of suggested activities, from posting/sharing diverse books to making a donation to the organization. I’ll be returning to this subject next week, but for reasons that are […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Cat Zhang, Hachette, James Patterson, Maris Kreizman, Meta, Mr. Beast, Sean Manning, Tahereh Mafi, We Need Diverse Books

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