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The best book covers of 2025 (This week in books)

December 13, 2025 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! A day late! The 173 Best Book Covers of 2025 – Emily Temple, Lit Hub – Always one of my favorite features of the year! The winner is an absolute stunner. Sophie Kinsella, ‘Confessions of a Shopaholic’ Author, Dies at 55 – Sopan Deb, New York Times – The tremendously influential Madeleine […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Allison K Williams, Bethanne Patrick, Book covers, Carolyn Kellogg, Emily Temple, Entangled, Jonathan Slotkin, Kate McKean, Katy Hershberger, KPop Demon Hunters, Mark Athitakis, Nicholas G. Miller, Oxford University Press, Sam Spratford, Scholastic, Sopan Deb, Sophie Kinsella

OpenAI does not want you to know why it deleted its pirated books database (This week in books)

December 5, 2025 by Nathan Bransford 2 Comments

This week! Books! First up, in case you missed it: Really sad news arrived this week as longtime publishing industry man about town Porter Anderson passed away. I’m sure many of you will remember Porter from the comments section here, his work with Jane Friedman on The Hot Sheet, his work editing Publishing Perspectives, or […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., A24, Alia Hanna Habib, Jeff Giles, Jennifer Szalai, Kevin Lozano, Leigh Stein, Lily Meyer, Lincoln Michel, Malcolm Cowley, Melina Spanoudi, National Book Awards, OpenAI, Porter Anderson, Sally Rooney, Sam Kriss, Sam Spratford, Sophie Newman

Anthropic settlement class now searchable (This week in books)

October 3, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! Anthropic Copyright Settlement Website – If your book was pirated by Anthropic and you or your publisher registered your copyright within five years, you may be in the settlement class that’s eligible for $3,000 per book. You can search here, and the Authors Guild has more information on how to file a […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Alexandra Alter, Angel Saunders, Anthropic, Authors Guild, Donald Maass, Elizabeth A. Harris, Jason Sanford, Jennifer L. Armentrout, Kathleen Schmidt, Lincoln Michel, Michael John Goodman, Mychel Threets, OpenAI, Rachel Raposas, Robert B. Barnett, Sam Spratford, Steven Lee Myers, Stuart A. Thompson, Tajia Isen, Tiffany Hsu, William Morris

Is “crossover” becoming a real thing? (This week in books)

July 11, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

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 […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Bookstores, Caitlin Welsh, Carlos Lozada, Chloe Veltman, Constance Grady, David Brooks, James Hill, Jen Kinney, John Jakes, Kalhan Rosenblatt, Kate Knibbs, Katy Hershberger, Lincoln Michel, Literary Fiction, Lucy Knight, Merve Emre, Meta, Michael Cader, Sam Spratford, Sarah Brouillette, Selah Jordan, TikTok, Victoria Ivie, Victoria Strauss

A devastating censorship ruling (This week in books)

May 30, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

The last few weeks! Books! I’m back! Though I’m quite busy catching up, and extraordinarily jet-lagged. Today’s collection of links will be presented mainly in list format, but there are lots of good ones. Enjoy! Appeals Court Reverses Ruling in Texas Book Ban Case – Nathalie op de Beeck, Publishers Weekly – An extremely disappointing […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Amelia Nierenberg, Benjamin Davis, Chanda A. Bell, Charlie Warzel, Damon Beres, Drew Broussard, James D. Walsh, Kate McKean, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ken Whyte, Kyle Chayka, Leigh Stein, Lincoln Michel, Lucy Feldman, Michiko Kakutani, Nathalie op de Beeck, Pulitzer Prize, Sam Spratford, Sarah Chauncey, Sophia Stewart, Taylor Lorenz, Victor Tangermann

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