and more.
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HarperCollins Partners with ‘AI-Powered’ Animation House Toonstar
The publisher will co-produce animated YouTube series based on select titles through a “creator-led” process that employs Toonstar’s proprietary AI production technology, beginning with Lisa Greenwald’s popular middle grade series Friendship List.
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Globe Pequot Acquires Linden Publishing
In its latest acquisition, Globe Pequot has purchased the Fresno, Calif.–based press and its 275-title backlist, which includes titles on woodworking and arts & crafts as well as general nonfiction and some fiction.
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New World Editions Series Spans the Globe
Read the World A to Z will feature translated novels by authors from one country for every letter of the alphabet. The series debuts with a trio of books from Argentina, Belgium, and China, slated for October 6.
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Harlequin to Co-Produce AI-Generated ‘Microdramas’
The romance publisher is partnering with Dashverse, an AI video company based in Bengaluru, India, to adapt 40 of its titles into animated shortform video series, beginning in April with Catherine Mann’s A Fairy-Tail Ending.
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How ‘Afternoon Hours of a Hermit’ by Patrick Cottrell Got Made
An inside look at the publication process for the author’s latest novel.
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Book Deals: Week of March 30, 2026
Algonquin scores bilingual rights to Caro De Robertis’s novel about Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Harper takes a memoir from late filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, and more.
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SCOTUS’s Cox Ruling Could Impact Publishers’ Fight Against AI
In a case brought against Cox Communications by Sony and other music labels, the Supreme Court’s verdict hinged on whether the company intended for its service to be used for copyright infringement. Publishers might now ask the same questions of AI companies’ large language models.
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As AI Discourse Rages, Publishing Has More Questions Than Answers
In the week since Hachette canceled the publication of Mia Ballard’s Shy Girl amid allegations about the author’s use of AI, the industry is struggling to openly address the ethical and material questions raised by the incident.
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Callaway Arts & Entertainment Files for Bankruptcy
The publisher and entertainment company, founded in 1980 by Nicholas Callaway, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the Southern District of New York. Among its largest creditors is its distributor, Hachette, which it owes $1.7 million.
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Albert Whitman Files New Reorganization Plan
The plan would pay authors and illustrators about half of what they are owed by the children’s publisher over the next five years. The company filed for bankruptcy nearly two years ago and owes unsecured creditors about $2 million.
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