Recent automatic updates to e-book editions of works by Roald Dahl, R.L. Stine and Agatha Christie are a reminder of who really owns your digital media. Read more
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The National Book Foundation Announces its ‘5 Under 35’ Winners
5 Under 35 honorees are writers from around the world, under the age of 35, who have published their first and only book of fiction—either a short story collection or a novel—within the last five years. Read more
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Parent Says the Bible Contains Porn and Should be Removed from School Libraries
The parent writes that the book should be considered indecent under Utah’s new book banning law, after seeing the other titles that have been pulled. Read more
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2023 Whiting Awards Recognize 10 Emerging Writers
The recipients of the $50,000 prize, which were announced on Wednesday evening, show an exceeding amount of talent and promise, according to the prize’s judges. The Whiting Awards aim to “recognize excellence and promise in a spectrum of emerging talent, giving most winners their first chance to devote themselves full time to their own writing, or to take bold new risks in their work…” Read more
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‘The Big Door Prize’ Premieres On Apple TV+
A small town is forever changed when a mysterious machine appears, promising to reveal everyone’s true potential; soon, residents start changing jobs, rethinking relationships and questioning long-held beliefs. Watch trailer
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French Writer Houellebecq Loses Bid to Ban Dutch Porn Film
The plot could have come from one of controversial French author Michel Houellebecq’s own dark novels — an ageing writer features in a porn film, only to regret it later. Read more
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Is This Ghostwriter the ‘Biggest Serial Plagiarist of All Time’?
For over a decade, Kristin Loberg has quietly co-authored a long list of bestselling books for medical superstars like David Agus and Sanjay Gupta. Now she’s embroiled in a growing plagiarism scandal that has her celebrity clients worried sick. Read more
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Rathbones Folio Prize Names Its 2023 Winners
…England’s Rathbones Folio Prize in February announced three categories of competition–fiction, nonfiction, and poetry–for the winners being announced at a program tonight in London (March 27). Not only the three category winners but an overall “book of the year” prize drawn from those three has been announced in that British Library soiree. Read more
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The Largest Open Air Bookshop in the World Is Threatened
Paris’ bookstalls are a centuries-old tradition. Read more
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Judge Eviscerates Internet Archive’s Scanning and Lending Program
In an emphatic 47-page opinion, federal judge John G. Koeltl found the Internet Archive infringed the copyrights of four plaintiff publishers by scanning and lending their books under a legally contested practice known as CDL (controlled digital lending). And after three years of contentious legal wrangling, the case wasn’t even close.
“At bottom, IA’s fair use defense rests on the notion that lawfully acquiring a copyrighted print book entitles the recipient to make an unauthorized copy and distribute it in place of the print book, so long as it does not simultaneously lend the print book,” Koeltl wrote in a March 24 opinion granting the publisher plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment and denying the Internet Archive’s cross-motion. “But no case or legal principle supports that notion. Every authority points in the other direction.” Read more
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