Last week, a group of publishers including Hachette Book Group, as well as author Scott Turow, have
filed a class action lawsuit against Google, alleging that the tech giant unlawfully used titles that publishers had provided for its Google Books feature to also train its Gemini large language models. Bloomsbury is
anticipating record profits this fiscal year, with revenue expected to top $474 million thanks in part to two new titles in Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses series. Marvel’s comics division is
leaving New York City—its home base for 80 years—to join the rest of the company in Burbank, Calif., where, simultaneously, longtime comics editor Stephen Wacker is taking over as editor-in-chief. Novelist Dinaw Mengestu
has resigned as president of PEN America over the publication of a report on cultural boycotts and Israeli writers. And California publisher
Don Ellis and Pennsylvania bookseller
Betsy Rider have died at 84 and 91, respectively