Book Industry News: Ai Translation, Meta Lawsuit, And Library Innovati

Jun 30 2025: The American Collection Association’s 2025 Yearly Conference, kept in Philly from June 26– 30, discovered attendees at the same time distressed concerning the future and in a battling state of mind, with several speakers explaining curators as the “frontlines” and the “lifelines” of …

Meta Lawsuit: Authors Claim Copyright Infringement

Jun 26 2025: United State District Court Vince Chhabria granted summary judgment to Meta in a situation brought by 13 authors, including Ta-Nehisi Coates, Sarah Silverman, and Pulitzer Prize champions Junot Díaz and Andrew Sean Greer, who declared the business unlawfully utilized their books to train its …

Ukrainian Publishing House Damaged in Russian Attack

Jun 24 2025: A Russian rocket and drone assault on Kyiv on June 17 damaged a Ukrainian posting home and damaged several other book-related companies, the Ukrainian posting sector information service Chytomo has reported. Ukrainian Concern Posting was entirely ruined …

Jul 02 2025: Participants at the American Library Organization’s Yearly Conference in Philadelphia last week experienced the profession’s digital innovations in addition to hands-on developments offered in collection areas. From breakout conference room to the Collection Industry, which this …

Jul 04 2025: A brag by a Reform UK councillor that he guaranteed the elimination of “trans-ideological product and publications” from the youngsters’s area of his county’s collections has actually fallen flat after it emerged that no such product ever before existed there.

Jun 18 2025: Five years after “retiring” BookCon and BookExpo, ReedPop has actually announced– to the shock of many in guide service– that it plans to revitalize BookCon. The new iteration of the consumer-facing program is slated for April 18-19, 2026, returning to its former home in New york city …

AI Translation Service Launched for Authors

Jul 08 2025: An AI fiction translation solution aimed at both self-published writers and standard publishers has actually been launched in the UK. GlobeScribe.ai is currently charging $100 per publication, per language for use of its translation solutions.