AGP Executive Report
Last update: 10 hours agoSally Rooney Row: Rooney’s UK sales jumped nearly 300% in a week after publisher Faber stopped supplying her books over her support for Palestine Action. Shops have sold out, while more than 150 authors and actors Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones backed calls to keep her work available. AI and Authorship: Quebec publisher Éditions du Boréal cut ties with Thélyson Orélien and won’t reprint his award-winning novel after concluding AI was used in its writing. France, meanwhile, has launched a literary prize open to AI-written books. Publishing Access: Canadian Science Publishing launched a free French-language science collection on Érudit, with 14 articles and plans to invite French submissions. Prizes and Fairs: The 2027 Women’s Prize judging panels are out, and New York City’s International Book Fair has opened with 160 events. Book-to-Screen: Esther McGregor and Emilio Sakraya will lead the TV adaptation of Rebecca Yarros’s bestselling Fourth Wing. Memoir Watch: Bob Iger has announced One Last Time, a candid account of his return as Disney CEO, following Bob Chapek’s own memoir.
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