While awaiting the slow gears of litigation and legislation, over 10,000 creators and organizational partners from around the world have signed on to a simple statement of protest, declaring: “The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted.” Among the supporting organizations is the Association of American Publishers (AAP). CEO Maria Pallante said in a press release, “What is true is that creators operate in service to a well-read, informed, and inspired global public, not the unsanctioned, unregulated profits of […]
Archives for October 2024
Forthcoming: Maria Shriver’s I AM MARIA, John Green’s EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS
On April 1, Maria Shriver‘s The Open Field imprint will publish her own book, I AM MARIA: My Poems and Reflections on Healing, Heartbreak, and Hope. According to a release, the book “combines Shriver’s hard-earned wisdom with her own deeply personal poetry and reminds readers there is strength, love, and hope on the other side of our hardest days.” Penguin Life, Viking, and Penguin Books president and publisher Brian Tart said, “Maria Shriver has written a book that will inspire readers everywhere to look beyond others’ expectations and labels to find their true selves. After years of searching, she accomplished […]
New Books Publishing October 22
This week’s fiction releases include new novels by Jeff VanderMeer, V. C. Andrews, and Susanna Clarke, while Alexei Navalny, André Aciman, and Jenny Slate publish nonfiction, along with Seth Godin in one of the first releases from Authors Equity. Also out this week are new books by Kari Leibowitz and Anna Montague, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Fall/Winter sampler, and Beth Reekles and Deanna Faison, featured in our Buzz Books 2024: Romance collection. 17 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-october-22 19 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-october-22 From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We consult […]
People 10/22
Barnes & Noble Discover Prize
Now Available: PM Gift Memberships
Answering longstanding requests — and just in time for gift season — we have added the ability to purchase gift memberships to PublishersMarketplace, at any periodicity from one month up to a year. After purchase, you receive a Publishers Marketplace Gift Certificate by email that you can forward to your recipient. On the same theme, remember our hefty 6.7 pound gift idea for your publishing friends, too: Our definitive book on THE TRIAL: The DOJ’s Suit to Block Penguin Random House’s Acquisition of Simon & Schuster remains an amazing document for any publishing library. (We’ve sold more copies this year […]