Just before the August 19 deadline for any appeals of the final settlement in the Anthropic copyright infringement case, Edelson and Oppenheim + Zebrak, the two firms brought in by publishers as “Publishers’ Coordination Counsel,” filed a notice of appeal to the Ninth Circuit’s Court of Appeals. The firms say they “intend to focus their appeal on issues related to the Order Granting in Part Motion for Attorneys’ Fees, Reimbursement of Expenses,” but the notice is phrased as an appeal of “the Judgment entered on July 20, 2026, including all prior orders encompassed in that decision.” That leaves opaque for […]
People 8/20
Barkan Book Removed From Retail Sites After Plagiarism Backlash
Political columnist Ross Barkan’s THE REVOLUTIONARY: Zohran Mamdani and the Remaking of American Politics, which was scheduled to publish from Random House on October 6, has disappeared from most retailer sites. Last week, New York magazine announced that an internal review found improper “attribution of language, information and/or sourcing” in 67 of Barkan’s pieces and dropped him as a contributor, the magazine said in a statement. The book is no longer listed on the Penguin Random House website or Edelweiss, or major retailer sites including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Target, and Walmart, the Washington Post reports. The book remains on […]
People 8/19
New Books Publishing August 18
This week’s fiction releases include new novels by William Kent Krueger, Richard Russo, LaToya Watkins, and Freida McFadden, while nonfiction includes work by Gil Durán and Joby Warrick. 29 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-august-18 20 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-august-18 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming months on Bookshop. Check out August‘s 105 fiction releases, 20 works of nonfiction, and 25 children’s titles, September‘s 132 fiction releases, 118 works of nonfiction, and 24 children’s titles, and October‘s 130 fiction releases, 102 […]
Distribution: Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet will be sold and distributed by Macmillan in the US starting March 1, 2027. They have been distributed by Hachette Book Group USA. Lonely Planet continues to be distributed by Hachette in the UK and Penguin Random House in Australia.