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Hachette Book Group’s acquisition of Union Square and a bevy of bestsellers helped the publisher boost Q3 sales by 12.5%. President Donald Trump has refiled his disparagement lawsuit against Penguin Random House and the New York Times, after his first filing was swiftly dismissed by a federal judge. In our latest dispatch from Frankfurt, we look at how BookTok has become a prime source of page-to-screen IP. Plus, we checked in with the Bay Area’s Kepler’s Books on the occasion of its 70th anniversary, and gathered photos and stories from this year’s Heartland Fall Forum in Indianapolis. In AI news, Vice reports that more than half of new articles online are AI-generated, while Meta is set to ink a $30 billion deal for a new AI data center in Louisiana, per Reuters. Wyoming lawmakers have introduced a bill that would ban books with “sexually explicit content” from being seen by children in school and public libraries, per KHOL. A “gender-critical” essay collection has been returned to the National Library of Scotland’s centenary display after an independent review found that its removal was based on “inadequate evidence,” reports BBC. James Webster of Fort Worth’s Recluse Books chats with Dirt about how the store is bringing literary curation and community to Texas. And Korean author Baek Sehee, whose memoir I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki became a global phenomenon, has died at 35.