Scribner will publish HOPE IN ACTION: A Memoir about the Courage to Lead, by former Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin on November 4, 2025. The publisher writes that the book is a “personal account of the pivotal events that defined Sanna Marin’s groundbreaking career as the youngest prime minister on the world stage when taking office at the age of thirty-four.” Kara Watson acquired North American and audio rights from Margaret Riley King and Laura Bonner at WME.
Distribution: University of New Mexico Press
Simon & Schuster will sell and distribute the University of New Mexico Press in the US and Canadian beginning July 1, 2025.
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Meta Documents Suggest Licensing Books Would Preclude Them From Pirating Them
According to newly unsealed filing in the case of several authors against Meta for copyright infringement, plaintiffs note that Meta’s documents show that the tech company knowingly used pirated material to train their AI tool Llama, even after employees raised flags that it was unethical and looked into paying for licenses. According to the filing, in one document, a Meta employee stated that she’d “been helping with buying content” from a redacted textbook publisher. Other internal messages “openly discuss licensing efforts and weigh the tradeoffs of using pirated textbooks and other copyrighted works from LibGen instead, including a statement that […]
Forthcoming: ‘What We Can Know’ by Ian McEwan
Knopf will publish Ian McEwan‘s new novel WHAT WE CAN KNOW on September 16, 2025. Jordan Pavlin, Knopf evp, publisher and editor in chief calls the book a “literary love story, a murder mystery” and says “the plot pivots on a legendary dinner party, and the recitation of a poem that is heard once and then lost for all time.” Rights were acquired from Georges Borchardt, with Knopf executive editor John Freeman editing.