How To Find A New Book

In Publishing News this week Publishers Weekly had a story about Bookshop.org beginning to sell eBooks in the UK. If you haven’t heard of Bookshop.org they are an independent online book seller that sells into the US and UK. They donate their profits to your local independent bookseller. Their…
https://www.maureencrisp.com/2025/10/how-to-find-new-book.html

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Who Has The Power?

In Publishing News this week, The first of the AI lawsuits has been decided with a Californian Federal Judge handing down a pre-trial ruling that the Anthropic company was using fair use to train its AI using copyrighted material. However, the fact that they used pirated material was a problem. Read the…
https://www.maureencrisp.com/2025/06/who-has-power.html

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Is it Good Literature?

In Publishing News this week, If you are a comic book publisher by now you must be suffering severe stress at the uncertainty of the Diamond Comics distributor woes. They have a buyer. They haven’t a buyer. Their potential buyer is now suing them. Publishers Weekly tries to keep everyone up to date.
https://www.maureencrisp.com/2025/05/is-it-good-literature.html

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Speaking Up for Reading

In Publishing News This Week Another week, another news story on the Institute of Museum and Library Services, this time it’s an open letter to Harper Collins. Everyone else has made the campaign to save the Institute a priority- why haven’t they? In the UK, a new survey on reading finds…
https://www.maureencrisp.com/2025/04/speaking-up-for-reading.html

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