AGP Executive Report
Last update: 11 hours agoBelarus Publishing: Homer’s Odyssey is getting a first-ever complete Belarusian translation, with hexameter work and reader commentaries from Połackija Łabirynty. Tech & Reading Culture: Google is pushing deeper into books with AI features that can analyze ebooks and help with travel planning, while China tightens rules that can mean confiscated power banks at airports. Publishing Business Watch: MrBeast and James Patterson’s The Most Dangerous Games faces reported weak preorders, and Guantánamo’s book fair returns with new local titles and a Fidel Castro-focused program. Books as Big Ideas: A new horror slate for September leans hard into the season’s biggest scares, and Supernatural Machines from Naga Archives traces two centuries of spirit-communication devices. Author News: Wendell Berry dies at 92, and the Odyssey retranslation news spotlights Emily Wilson’s new approach. Social Impact: A review calls for a national mentoring standard for care leavers after deaths tied to isolation, and Connecticut orders parts of a Waterbury captivity case internal review disclosed to the victim’s lawyers.
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