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Government charges three people in publishing scam

Jan 16 2025: After a long investigation and hundreds of complaints, a grand jury in San Diego has charged three people involved in a publishing scam that the government contends defrauded elderly authors across the U.S. of almost $44 million.

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Diamond Comic Distributors files for bankruptcy

Jan 15 2025: Diamond Comic Distributors, a linchpin in the distribution of comics to comics shops since it was founded in 1982, has made a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland.

According to the filing, Diamond has received $41 ...

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British novelists criticise government over AI ‘theft’

Jan 14 2025: Kate Mosse and Richard Osman have hit back at Labour’s plan to give artificial intelligence companies broad freedoms to mine artistic works for data, saying it could destroy growth in creative fields and amount to theft.

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Colin Barrett’s Wild Houses among winners of Nero book awards

Jan 14 2025: Booker longlisted author Colin Barrett has won the Nero book award for debut fiction for his novel Wild Houses.

Meanwhile Adam S Leslie has won in the fiction category for Lost in the Garden, while Guardian Long Reads contributor Sophie Elmhirst’s Maurice and Maralyn...

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Brush fires, severe weather threaten L.A. bookstores and publishers

Jan 09 2025: Bookstores and publishers located in the Los Angeles metro area were among those closed or evacuated on January 8 due to uncontained brush fires, power outages, and extreme winds that have devastated the region.

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Park & Fine, Brower merge

Jan 07 2025: Park & Fine Literary and Media and Brower Literary & Management have merged to form Park, Fine & Brower Literary Management. The new agency represents more than 300 authors of all genres and in all stages of their careers, with Park & Fine cofounder Celeste Fine and ...

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Louisiana supreme court revives librarian Amanda Jones’s defamation suit

Dec 31 2024: Louisiana librarian and freedom to read advocate Amanda Jones is ending 2024 with a major legal victory. On December 27, the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that Jones’s 2022 defamation case against two local men who accused her of pushing pornography to children can ...

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Freedom to read advocates celebrate a major legal victory in Arkansas

Dec 23 2024: In a highly anticipated decision, a federal judge in Arkansas has permanently struck down two key provisions of Arkansas’s controversial “harmful to minors” law, known as Act 372, finding the law to be unconstitutional.

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