AGP Executive Report
Last update: 7 hours agoLibrary Procurement Scandal: Researchers say 257 suspicious, high-priced English-language books remain on shelves at Coimbatore’s Periyar Arivulagam. The discovery adds to a Tamil Nadu probe into alleged fake and AI-generated titles, with a court seeking publisher-by-publisher purchase records. David Walliams Fallout: The children’s author denies allegations of sexual misconduct and grooming; Irish bookshops have pulled his titles, and a planned film adaptation has been dropped. Memoir Scrutiny: Sonia Gandhi’s Belonging faces questions over 55 alleged factual and contextual errors, including claims about Parliament, Godhra and Kargil, raising questions about Penguin’s fact-checking. Publishing Standards: Library and Archives Canada now requires publishers and self-publishing authors to declare that books submitted for ISBNs were written by humans. Booker Milestone: An 81-year-old British author has won the 2026 Booker Prize for a novel imagining the world’s collapse, becoming the award’s oldest recipient.
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