A case management update filed with the court by the attorneys in the Anthropic settlement provides new data on participation in the process. The court recently extended the deadline to opt out of the settlement — reserving the right to pursue individual action against Anthropic — from January 14 to January 29. As of January 14, the attorneys report, “there are presently 86 opt outs accounting for 208 works.” As for claims received for the pool of nearly 500,000 registered, infringed works, “the Settlement Administrator has received a total of 56,798 claims for 161,691 works. The present claims rate—nearly 20%—already […]
Raab to Leave Macmillan
Macmillan publisher-at-large Jamie Raab is leaving the company, the company announced to staff on Tuesday. She writes: “I have loved my years working at Macmillan. It was a joy to launch Celadon, see its wonderful team come together, and watch the division flourish and become a force in the publishing world. And it was an honor to stand in as Holt’s interim publisher, getting to know the remarkable people who make the division special and who welcomed me so warmly into their fold. Most of all, I am grateful to the many talented colleagues I have had the pleasure of working […]
Regnery Reschedules María Corina Machado’s Short Book to Add New Material
Regnery Publishing has rescheduled a short book by Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado, THE FREEDOM MANIFESTO, in order to “add new material addressing the recent political upheaval,” Tony Lyons indicated to the NYT. Planned for February 2 publication, it is now listed for release on March 17, though Lyons says the publisher is “rushing” to have an updated version ready for release “perhaps as early as next month.”
2025: The Year In Deals
A strong fourth quarter for domestic deals (+4.4 percent overall), driven by an 18 percent increase in fiction deals, lifted the year’s results to another new record total for PM deal reports. Publisher investment grew even more, setting new records overall and new records for major and significant deals. In particular: – US deals overall were up 1.9 percent, a new record total. – Adult Fiction gained again, for the seventh straight year, up 9.3 percent (on top of 2024’s gain of 10 percent). Nonfiction sales ebbed, down 1.6 percent. – Children’s deals finally broke their three-year decline, finishing flat for the year. […]
Catching Up
Welcome to 2026. There was plenty of news over the past two weeks, and as promised we were covering live at our site and through a couple of catch-up newsletters. In case you missed them, here’s a quick review: January Picks Amazon Has Constrained “Ask This Book,” Though Authors Guild Believes It’s An Infringing Derivative Use Speculating on Barnes & Noble’s Sales “Public Domain Day” Features Faulkner, Nancy Drew and More Audible Tests In-App Promo Videos 2025: The Year In Stories Anthropic settlement: Before retiring, Judge Alsup lambasted the proposed fees for additional attorneys Meet the New Judge in the […]
Meet the New Judge in the Anthropic Case
With the retirement of Judge William Alsup, Northern California District Court Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin will oversee the Anthropic copyright settlement from here. Appointed to the bench in 2023 by President Joe Biden, she is considered “one of the nation’s leading immigration attorneys, having spent her entire career advocating for rights of immigrant workers.” In paperwork filed December 30 as ordered by Judge Alsup, the plaintiffs’ attorneys admitted that they had agreed to the split of legal fees proposed to the court in an early December filing way back on August 7 in a written agreement. No doubt Judge Alsup would […]