AGP Executive Report
Last update: 11 hours agoBestseller Buzz: Sarah J. Maas’s new A Court of Thorns and Roses installment sparked midnight queues and intense fan interest, underlining romance readers’ growing influence on publishing. War Hits Publishing: A Russian strike on a publisher’s warehouse in Kharkiv disrupted preparations for November book releases, highlighting the direct toll of the war on Ukraine’s publishing industry. AI and Authorship: South African author Coral Hart defended producing hundreds of AI-assisted books in 20 months, as Bloomsbury said it does not want AI-written books and a publisher dropped a prize contender over suspected AI traces. Book Access: IISER Pune removed activist Umar Khalid’s book from its library after objections, citing concern about “misunderstanding or unrest”; meanwhile, authors pledged royalties to Sally Rooney amid UK book-ban disputes. Literary Recognition: Poet Victoria Chang was named a National Book Award finalist, and the 2026 Canadian Children’s Book Centre awards recognized middle-grade fiction by Kim Spencer.
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