New Books Publishing November 5
This week’s fiction releases include new stories by Joyce Carol Oates, while nonfiction includes work from Oliver Sacks and Sy Montgomery. November’s children’s releases include new books by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Isabel Ibañez, and Katharine McGee. Also publishing this week are The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong and Love Advice from the Great Duke of Hell by Unfins, both excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Fall/Winter sampler. 17 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-november-5 9 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-november-5 20 children’s titles https://bookshop.org/lists/november-2024-children-s-releases From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ […]
VBK To Test AI Translation Into English
Dutch publisher VBK, acquired earlier this year by Simon & Schuster, will test out AI translation of their books into English, the Bookseller reports. According to the Bookseller, a small number of books are being translated, and only in cases when the English rights haven’t been sold. A VBK spokesperson said, “We are working on a limited experiment with some Dutch authors, for their books to be translated into English language using AI. There will be one editing phase, and authors have been asked to give permission for this. “We are not creating books with AI, it all starts and […]
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Dreamscape Institutes Layoffs Following RB Media Acquisition
As part of the acquisition by RBmedia, this week Dreamscape laid off several people, indicated by one anonymous employee to be more than 10 positions. Dreamscape offered the following statement: “As part of integrating Dreamscape with RBmedia, it became clear that RBmedia had capacity and infrastructure that could be leveraged by Dreamscape while still enabling us to deliver the same high-level of service to authors, publishers, distributors and the narrator community. Unfortunately, this resulted in a portion of the team being given notice.”