AGP Executive Report
Last update: 6 hours agoAI and Authorship: Quebec publisher Les Éditions du Boréal is cutting ties with Thélyson Orélien, saying metadata analysis indicated AI was used to write his debut novel; Orélien has denied using AI. Memoir Watch: Former Disney CEO Bob Iger will publish One Last Time, about his turbulent return to the top job and reported clashes with successor Bob Chapek. Censorship Dispute: More than 150 writers, artists and actors—including Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones—are urging the UK government to change laws that led Faber to stop selling Sally Rooney’s books in Britain over her support for Palestine Action. War’s Toll on Books: Ukraine’s culture minister says Russian attacks destroyed about 13 million books this summer, as the government considers support for publishers. AI and Copyright: South Korea’s Kyobo Book Centre rejected an order for 100,000 different books after it could not establish who would receive them or how they would be used, amid fears of unauthorized AI training.
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