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Whats new: 18 December 2024 - What's new 18 December 2024
  • ‘I saw this eccentric Dickens place and thought, why not? If I had not made that capricious decision, fundamentally based on oysters, Dickens would never have answered this question. There would have been no Demon Copperhead, I promise you. When people think they make their own...

Pop the champagne and tuck into the "black gold" fit for tsars (and charlied-up City boys at the tail end of 15-hour benders), for voters have narrowly plumped for an eco-tome on caviar consumption and the increasingly endangered sturgeon as the winner of 2024's The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for...

Publishing is one of many fields poised for disruption by tech companies and artificial intelligence (AI). New platforms and approaches, like a book imprint by Microsoft and a self-publishing tech startup that uses AI, promise to make publishing faster and more accessible than ever.

Many celebrities' books are actually written by others, the UK writers' union says, and it's time they were acknowledged

Writers have been coming out against companies that fund awards, with serious implications for the books industry

Link: Is BookTok Past Its Peak? 16 December 2024

Are we finally at the end of BookTok's chapter?

An established YA author experiments with indie publishing

John Brandon on Coming to Terms with Contemporary Settings, How Technology Shapes Plots, and America's Current Malaise

Link: Revising Makes Your Work Shine 16 December 2024

An indie author discusses the joys of revising.

Debut authors: How they did it, what they learned, and why you can do it, too.

Launching on Monday 16th December, the new coalition of rights holders, which includes publishers and authors, has outlined three key principles for copyright and generative AI policy and made a statement supported by all member organisations, which include trade bodies such as the Publishers...

Parliamentarians and authors including Kate Mosse have raised significant concerns about the alleged theft of copyright on a mass scale by Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) firms, ahead of a debate next week.

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The Nine Dots Prize 2024/25 to 27 January 2025
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