Beginning with the 2025 awards, which opens for submissions in spring 2024, the Pulitzer Prize board has changed the eligibility requirements for the books, drama and music awards to include “US citizens, permanent residents of the United States,” and authors for whom “the United States has been their longtime primary home.” Previously, only US citizens were eligible for the awards, with the exception of authors of history books, who could be of any nationality if their book was about US history. “For the sake of consistency,” the prize board said, history books must be written by US authors according to […]
Archives for September 2023
Internet Archive Appeals Their Big Loss
Following US District Court Judge John Koeltl’s clear, unequivocal and overwhelming finding the Internet Archive guilty of “wholesale copying and unauthorized lending” of publishers’ books, the IA filed notice of appeal on the inauspicious day of Monday, September 11. Judge Koeltl’s ruling was deeply rooted in Second Circuit precedent, including multiple cases already adjudicated by the Second Circuit of Appeals, which has made crystal clear that there is no digital first sale doctrine. Internet Archive director of library services Chris Freeland admits in a posted statement, “We know this won’t be easy.” And he reasserts one of their core arguments […]
People 9/11
Daphne Durham has joined Putnam as an executive editor. She was previously at MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
National Book Awards Host Drew Barrymore Will Resume Taping Her Show Despite WGA Strike
On Instagram on Sunday, Drew Barrymore announced that she will resume production on her talk show despite the Writers Guild of America strike that began May 2. She wrote, “To be clear, our talk show actually wrapped on April 20th so we never had to shut down the show. However, I am also making the choice to come back for the first time in this strike for our show, that may have my name on it but this is bigger than just me.” WGA East members picketed her show Monday morning. Barrymore claimed, “I want to be there to provide […]
Authors Guild Helps Authors Demand Takedown from IA
Though the Internet Archive was found guilty of copyright infringement and forced to remove books from its website, the injunction itself only applies to books published by the plaintiffs–Hachette, Harper Collins, Wiley, and Penguin Random House–and there is a provision designed to include any other AAP member publishers who wish to do so. The injunction also only covers titles that are available in ebook editions, leaving out some print books that may have been self-published, published by small presses, or had their rights reverted (or even books where big houses have rights only to the print editions). In a blog […]
CorreX In Real Time
The pre-publication rollout of Walter Isaacson’s Tuesday release ELON MUSK took an unexpected turn after a sensational disclosure in one excerpt in the Washington Post was refuted by Musk himself and then corrected by Isaacson. Isaacson billed the excerpt as “the inside story of how Musk used Starlink to help Ukraine, then pulled back one tense Friday night.” In the incident in question, “The Ukrainian military was attempting a sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet based at Sevastopol in Crimea by sending six small drone submarines packed with explosives, and it was using Starlink to guide them to the […]