AGP Executive Report
Last update: an hour agoAudiobooks: Spotify is expanding audiobook access to more than 180 markets, reporting over a million Audiobooks+ subscribers, even as publishers accuse its bundled pricing of short-changing rights holders. New Fiction: Faber and Sourcebooks won the auction for HarperVoyager publisher Natasha Bardon’s debut novel, due in 2028. AI and Copyright: Japanese publishers are protesting Anthropic’s bulk book purchases for AI training; a U.S. federal court separately ruled that training AI on copyrighted books can qualify as fair use. War’s Toll on Books: A Russian strike destroyed Knygolove’s publishing warehouse in Kyiv, where books reprinted after an earlier attack were stored. Industry and Authors: Frankfurt Book Fair opened with a strong Chinese presence, while publishers debated AI narration and licensing. Bestselling novelist Jeffrey Archer died at 86, a day before his final novel was released.
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