Nathan Bransford | Writing, Book Editing, Publishing
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This week! Books! Lots of links saved up over the past few weeks, let’s get to them! Anthropic Scores a Landmark AI Copyright Win—but Will Face Trial Over Piracy Claims – Kate Knibbs, Wired – In a huge ruling on A.I. and copyright, a federal judge agreed that using books to train A.I. is fair […]
Like many people I am aghast at the recent events in Israel and Gaza and my heart is with everyone affected. In a social media environment where people now feel pressed to make their own statements as if we all have our own personal PR departments and where silence is viewed by some as complicity, […]
Last Wednesday, I suggested that there was no golden era where everyone was reading complex literary fiction. Is that actually true? Did past readers have more refined taste in fiction than we do now? Here’s a list of the bestselling novel by year from 1900 to the present (source), along with the books published that […]
Over at the Rumpus, Rob Roberge ponders whether we as a society are losing our taste for complexity in fiction. He riffs off of an argument author Jane Smiley made that if society is largely governed by affluent men whose reading of fiction is declining, we are on track for becoming a more selfish and […]
Writing in Slate, Jacob Silverman argues that literary culture, driven by Twitter and blogging, has gotten too nice: if you spend time in the literary Twitter- or blogospheres, you’ll be positively besieged by amiability, by a relentless enthusiasm that might have you believing that all new books are wonderful and that every writer is every […]
“Ancient of Days” – William Blake Self-publishing is often denigrated in some circles as a dominion of poor quality, but even among people who don’t sneer at it, what springs to mind when they think of self-publishing is usually genre fiction. People just don’t often think of self-publishing and literary fiction going hand in hand. […]
Helping authors achieve their dreams
