AGP Executive Report
Last update: 7 hours agoAI Copyright Fallout: A San Francisco judge has given final approval to Anthropic’s $1.5B settlement with authors and publishers over alleged training on pirated books, with payouts of about $3,000 per work across roughly 500,000 titles—while other AI copyright fights continue. Book Retail as Experience: Books Kinokuniya is opening its first Melbourne store at Melbourne Central, signaling how bookstores are leaning into in-person experiences as shopping centers expand. Local Bookshop Resilience: Bound Booksellers in Franklin, N.J. reopened after a water-line mishap damaged hundreds of books, turning the disaster into a community event and discount sale. Publishing & Community Events: Pendleton Public Library is hosting mystery author Mary B. Hansen for “Blood in the Archives,” and local author Meaghan Kent is promoting a novel drawing on survivors’ experiences of intimate partner violence. Literary Spotlight: Rosanne Dingli’s “Chance and Necessity: A novel of Narrogin and Williams” is shortlisted for the WA Premier’s Book Awards. Children’s Reading: “Wanted: Your House” highlights middle-grade hopes and housing insecurity through a new story aimed at summer readers.
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