Veronica Roth announced at BookCon last weekend that she will publish two new novels in her bestselling “Divergent” series. The first, THE SIXTH FACTION, will come out on October 6 from Harper Collins Children’s. It is “not a prequel, not a sequel, not a spinoff, not a different POV but an alternate universe of Divergent where Tris chooses a different faction,” the author told USA Today. “THE SIXTH FACTION started as an experiment…something that would allow me to explore the series that launched my career,” Roth said in a release. “I feel very fortunate that the team at Harper was […]
Nearly All Works Claimed in Anthropic Suit
In a status report filed on Friday, plaintiffs in the Anthropic suit announced that rightsholders for more than 91 percent of the works have filed claims in the class action settlement for the company’s pirating of books to train their LLM. Attorneys received 119,876 claims by the March 30 deadline, according to the court filing. Those account for 440,490 of the 482,460 works on the works list. The claims rate increased significantly from March 19, when claims covered 54 percent of the works list. Those claim rates are far higher than what is typical: According to a 2019 report by the […]
Denver Book Society in Legal Fight Over Name
The Denver Book Society, the two-month old bookstore that parted ways with its cofounder in March, is now going to court to claim it didn’t infringe on another store’s trademark. The Denver bookstore, owned by Rich Garvin, is suing a Berkley, CA bookstore and wine bar called Book Society, which has been fighting with Garvin over their shared name. Book Society, which was founded in 2023, filed a trademark application for the term “book society” in August 2025 and contacted Garvin with concerns about their similar names the same month, according to the filing. The trademark application is still pending. […]
Avid Bookshop to Close
Athens, GA independent store Avid Bookshop will close its doors on April 26, “six months shy of our fifteenth anniversary,” founder and owner Janet Geddis announced in a Facebook post. The store opened in 2011. “My health is at the heart of this decision: I am burned out and have been for years,” Geddis writes. “Even on my best days, I live with undercurrents of stress and anxiety that drag me down. Until fairly recently, I could muster through, pulling out all the stops to complete even the most dreaded work tasks. That talent has left me. “I. am. exhausted.” […]