AGP Executive Report
Last update: 9 hours agoAudiobooks: Kodansha’s English-language audiobook of Kōji Suzuki’s horror classic Ring arrives Oct. 27, with Spiral and Loop due later this year. Authors’ Careers: In Steven Galloway’s defamation case, his agent testified that unproven sexual-assault allegations made it impossible to sell new work; Galloway denies the claims and was never charged. Publishing: Chatto & Windus won a nine-way auction for Preti Taneja’s novel Kindness. Meanwhile, AI authorship is testing publishers’ safeguards: a French publisher dropped a prize contender over suspected AI traces, while South African author Coral Hart defended publishing hundreds of AI-written books. Book Challenges: A Maryland judge upheld the decision to restore the YA novel Flamer to a school library, another significant ruling in the fight over book bans. Remembering: Japanese novelist Ryū Murakami, known for Audition and Almost Transparent Blue, has died at 74.
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