Henry Holt will publish a new Michael Wolff book, THE FALL: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty, on September 26. The publisher writes that the book is about “the effects of Fox’s all-powerful controlling shareholder’s age (92), the desperate rivalries and contradictory desires of his children regarding the future of the network (the flesh and blood version of HBO’s Succession), the irresolvable contradiction of Rupert Murdoch’s antipathy to Trump, and to Fox’s own stars,” and more. Wolff previously wrote a biography of Murdoch called The Man Who Owns the News and most recently published a trilogy about […]
Archives for August 2023
People 8/22
Mandy Earles has joined Scholastic as trade publicist. Earles was previously publicist at VIZ Media.
People 8/21
ArtHouse Literary Agency is partnering with talent agency IAG, with the latter handling media and subsidiary rights for ArtHouse clients.
Your Books Trained Those Large Language Models
As is already being contested in a number of lawsuits seeking class action status, the core datasets on which all of the major large language models have been trained rely on stolen, copyrighted books. As a new Atlantic magazine article by Alex Reisner puts it, “Pirated books are being used as inputs for computer programs that are changing how we read, learn, and communicate. The future promised by AI is written with stolen words.” BookCorpus was stolen from Smashwords authors. Books3 is a body of between 150,000 and 190,000 books from established publishers and authors. The Atlantic piece extracts the […]
Jeff Smith Cancels Book Tour
Jeff Smith, creator of the Bone comics series, canceled the remaining dates of his book tour to promote his new book TUKI after experiencing cardiac arrest on August 13. In a post on their website, publisher Cartoon Books wrote, “There will be a long road to recovery, so regrettably we must cancel the remainder of his book tour this year. Our apologies to his fans who were coming to see him at: Rob Con (VA), CXC (OH), Bedrock Comic Con (TX) and NYCC (NY). We hope this is just a bump in the road and that Jeff will see you […]