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In the News: June 2025
Can Kindle unlimited survive AI? â–ş BookRiot â–ş 6/30/25
Meta is being incredibly sketchy about training its AI on your private photos â–ş Futurism â–ş 6/30/25
Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature â–ş Nature â–ş 6/30/25
I’m getting real tired of not being able to trust that a video game doesn’t have AI crap in it ► Aftermath ► 6/30/25
9 things that make English particularly “weird” among the world’s languages ► Upworthy ► 6/30/25
A Harvard professor breaks down the real rules of writing â–ş No Film School 6/30/25
In Mexico, buses-turned-bookshops improve access to reading â–ş Courthouse News Service â–ş 6/30/25
Want to narrate an audiobook? The job is tougher than you think â–ş KCRW â–ş 6/30/25
AI-generated “experts” writing for online magazines ► The Times ► 6/29/25
Julia Whelan is the voice of the summer: Meet the narrator of your favorite bestsellers ► USA Today ► 6/29/25How to overcome writer’s block – for good this time ► Vice ► 6/29/25
Marginalia can sometimes add great value to a book â–ş The Telegraph â–ş 6/29/25
Readers flock to fantasy and dark romance love stories â–ş NPR â–ş 6/29/25
The AI backlash keeps growing stronger â–ş Wired â–ş 6/28/25
“AI” director Steven Spielberg opposed to using AI in front of the camera ► Economic Times ► 6/28/25
“We need to reclaim these words”: Inside England’s first romance-only bookshop catering to record levels of popularity ► The Guardian ► 6/28/25
Meta and Anthropic cases make AI copyright even more complicated â–ş The Verge â–ş 6/28/25
AI might undermine one of the better alternatives to the Kindle â–ş Engadget â–ş 6/28/25
Is the decline of reading poisoning our politics? ► Your brain isn’t what it used to be ► Vox ► 6/27/25
Why oppressive fictional societies suppress reading – and how they mirror our current culture ► Book Riot ► 6/27/25
Leila Mottley wonders if you can truly write a place you’ve never been ► LitHub ► 6/27/25
Two San Francisco bookstores are taking Harry Potter off the shelves â–ş LitHub â–ş 6/27/25
Against AI: An open letter from writers to publishers â–ş LitHub â–ş 6/27/25
The courts just made our libraries sitting ducks for AI plundering â–ş LitHub â–ş 6/27/25
Record number of bookshops take part in Independent Bookshop Week as indies see surge in sales â–ş The Bookseller â–ş 6/27/25
Meta wins AI copyright case, but judge writes roadmap for authors’ revenge ► Publishers Weekly ► 6/26/25
Book authors made the wrong arguments in Meta AI training case, judge says â–ş ArsTechnica â–ş 6/26/25
Judge tosses authors’ AI training copyright lawsuit against Meta ► PBS ► 6/26/25
Independent publishers are fed up with Barnes & Noble â–ş Publishers Weekly â–ş 6/26/25
Two judges, same district, opposite conclusions: the messy reality of AI training copyright cases â–ş TechDirt â–ş 6/26/25
AI can measure our cultural history. But is it accurate? â–ş Science News â–ş 6/26/25
Is “funner” a word? Let’s settle the debate ► MSN ► 6/26/25
Children are much better at learning language than AI â–ş Earth â–ş 6/26/25
A real issue: video game developers are being accused of using AI – even when they aren’t ► The Guardian ► 6/26/26
Does using artificial intelligence ruin your actual intelligence? Scientists investigated â–ş Sciene Alert â–ş 6/26/25
In a first-of-its-kind decision, an AI company wins a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by authors â–ş NPR â–ş 6/25/25
Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models â–ş Ars Technica â–ş 6/25/25
The end of publishing as we know it: Inside Silicon Valley’s assault on the media ► The Atlantic ► 6/25/25
Meet Booktrovert, the new bookish platform looking to slay both the BookTok algorithm and Goodreads â–ş The Popverse â–ş 6/25/25
Why a new Texas law worries anime and manga fans in the state â–ş Marketplace â–ş 6/25/25
How generative AI is changing the way we write and speak â–ş The Week â–ş 6/25/25
Portland Tribune to stop publishing print edition, trim staff â–ş OPB â–ş 6/25/25
AI will make you a dumber writer, says science. LitHub â–ş 6/24/25
AI fatigue is real, and it’s costing brands more than engagement ► Martech ► 6/23/25
Reading skills – and struggles – manifest earlier than thought ► The Harvard Gazette ► 6/23/25
Authors hit by bad reviews on Goodreads before review copies are even circulated â–ş The Bookseller â–ş 6/24/25
John Oliver on AI slop: “Some of this stuff is potentially very dangerous ► The Guardian ► 6/23/25
“One kid at a time”: how children’s books on male friendship could combat toxic masculinity ► The Guardian ► 6/23/25
Has AI come for romantasy novels already? â–ş Jezebel â–ş 6/23/25
Recalculating the costs and benefits of Gen AI â–ş Harvard Business Review â–ş 6/23/25
Not reading or writing would be unthinkable â–ş The Times â–ş 6/23/25
Fanfiction writers battle AI, one scrape at a time â–ş The Verge â–ş 6/23/25
Is AI a con? A new book punctures the hype and proposes some ways to resist â–ş The Conversation â–ş 6/23/25
7 security risks you need to know when using AI for work â–ş Mashable â–ş 6/23/25
LinkedIn CEO says AI writing assistant is not as popular as expected â–ş TechCrunch â–ş 6/22/25
AI hallucinates more frequently as it gets more advances – is they any way to stop it from happening, and should we even try? ► Live Science ► 6/21/25
The music industry is building the tech to hunt down AI songs â–ş The Verge â–ş 6/21/25
The internet of agents is rising fat, and publishers are nowhere near ready â–ş Fast Company â–ş 6/23/25
BBC threatens AI firm Perplexity with legal action over unauthorized use of news content â–ş Business Matters â–ş 6/23/25
The perfect man exists. He’s called a “book boyfriend.” ► The Washington Post ► 6/21/25
Silent Book Club is an introvert’s paradise – celebrating 10 years of the popular reading community ► People ► 6/21/25
Handsome princes and horny dragons: the rise of romantasy â–ş The Observer â–ş 6/21/25
“Not just smut”: Why it’s happily ever after for romance books ► BBC ► 6/20/25
Pep talks that I give authors that I will now give to myself â–ş LitHub â–ş 6/20/25
Researchers scanned the brains of ChatGPT users and found something deeply alarming â–ş Neoscope â–ş 6/20/25
ChatGPT use linked to cognitive decline, research reveals â–ş The Independent â–ş 6/20/25
New data reveals AI use has doubled in the last two years, Gallup â–ş HR Brew â–ş 6/20/25
Are we actually that good at detecting AI-generated content? â–ş Verdict â–ş 6/20/25
Pope: Intelligence is seeking life’s true meaning, not having reams of data ► United States Conference of Catholic Bishops ► 6/20/25
Pope Leo issues stark warning about AI’s effects on children ► The Independent ► 6/20/25
Kate McKean on the nuts and bolts of the query letter â–ş LitHub â–ş 6/20/25
Here’s why AI-generated images fool you – and how to spot them ► Honolulu Civil Beat ► 6/20/25
BT and Vodafone tech bosses troubled by dark side of AI â–ş Light Reading â–ş 6/20/25
Unbound Pages: Authors Against Book Bans fights for the freedom to read â–ş GBH â–ş 6/20/25
What happens if the AI copyright class actions settle? â–ş Authors Alliance â–ş 6/20/20
Bartz v. Anthropic: Class certification at issue for book authors in AI copyright litigation â–ş Authors Alliance â–ş 6/18/20
How will AI change the novel? â–ş The Bookseller â–ş 6/20/25
News corp bets big on AI tools but journalists voice concerns â–ş The Guardian â–ş 6/19/25
Do AI tools undermine our sense of creativity? New study says yes â–ş Psy Post â–ş 6/19/25
This is your brain on ChatGPT: lower neural interconnectivity and “soulless” work ► IFL Science ► 6/19/25
Brain activity much lower when using AI chatbots, MIT boffins find â–ş The Register â–ş 6/18/25
“It destroys the purpose of humanity”: Customers are saying no to AI ► The Washington Post ► 6/18/25
ChatGPT may be eroding critical thinking skills, according to a new MIT study â–ş Time â–ş 6/17/25
What’s happening to reading? For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end. ► The New Yorker ► 6/17/25
The launch of ChatGPT polluted the world forever, like the first atomic weapons tests â–ş The Register â–ş 6/15/25
The unmaking of the historical romance genre â–ş Book Riot â–ş 6/19/25
Books about books: why we write them and why we read them â–ş CrimeReads â–ş 6/19/25
Authors are posting TikToks to protest AU use in writing – and to prove they aren’t doing it ► Wired ► 6/18/25
Keeping kids engaged with summer reading â–ş Harvard Graduate School of Education â–ş 6/18/25
Could the semicolon die out? Recent analysis finds a decline in its usage in British literature and confusion among U.K. students â–ş Smithsonian Magazine â–ş 6/17/25
Why read: seven books about our passion and need for reading â–ş LitHub â–ş 6/18/25
Psychology says preferring books over people a subtle sign of these 7 personality characteristics â–ş VegOut â–ş 6/18/25
Study: ChatGPT’s creativity gap ► Axios ► 6/18/25
Forthcoming Supreme Court ruling could have chilling effect on public education and publishing â–ş School Library Journal â–ş 6/17/25
Amazon boss says AI will replace jobs at tech giant â–ş BBC â–ş 6/17/25
If we let AI tell our stories, we’ll be lost in the dark ► Time ► 6/17/25
Sustainable storytelling: This new children’s book is made from coffee cup waste ► ASI Central ► 6/17/25
Why romance fiction is booming and what keeps readers coming back for more â–ş NPR â–ş 6/17/25
Grammar Girl lays out new AP style rules for X, AI and more â–ş PR Daily â–ş 6/17/25
Grammarly looks to evolve into an always-on desktop AI agent â–ş Computerworld â–ş 6/17/25
Comic book artist says AI is “threat to livelihood” BBC ► 6/17/25
“It opened up something in me”: why people are turning to bibliotherapy ► BBC ► 6/17/25
What good is fiction? â–ş AEI â–ş 6/16/25
Children’s Institute 2025: “More important now than ever” ► Publishers Weekly ► 6/16/25
Why AI has a big branding problem â–ş Fast Company â–ş 6/16/25
Advanced AI suffers “complete accuracy collapse” in face of complex problems, study finds ► The Guardian ► 6/9/25
In praise of pulp fiction, bodice rippers, and beach reads ► Garden & Gun (don’t let the name put you off!) ► June/July 2025
10 things successful people always do in their free time, according to psychology â–ş Veg Out â–ş 6/16/25
Friction is the point: what AI will never understand about being human â–ş Forbes â–ş 6/15/25
The internet is sharing all the things AI has absolutely ruined, and we’re basically living in a “Black Mirror” episode ► Buzzfeed ► 6/14/25
Digital disconnect: Google’s AI overview is eating the news industry alive, one search at a time ► MSN ► 6/13/25
People don’t realize Meta’s AI app is publicly blasting their humiliating secrets to the world ► Futurism ► 6/14/25
Indonesia’s stunning micro-libraries attract young readers with fun-filled architecture ► Good News Network ► 6/13/25
Wikipedia pauses AI summary experiment after editors say it “would de immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source” ► PC Gamer ► 6/13/25
Is AI the reason for your layoff? New York becomes the first state to require companies to disclose if so â–ş Entrepreneur â–ş 6/13/25
Why AI is forcing music fans to confront uncomfortable truths â–ş The Indiependent â–ş 6/13/25
AI chatbots need more books to learn from. These libraries are opening their stacks â–ş AP â–ş 6/12/25
This MAGA-led California city council just lost its fight on banned books â–ş SFGate â–ş 6/12/25
Motion picture sound editors first Hollywood group to say no to awards for AI movies â–ş Hollywood Reporter â–ş 6/12/25
Judge denies preliminary injunction in ALA v. Sonderling IMLS case â–ş Publishers Weekly â–ş 6/9/25
Ellen Oh reflects on 10 years of We Need Diverse Books â–ş Publishers Weekly â–ş 6/12/25
A satirical article said Cape Breton has its own time zone. Google and Meta AI repeated it as fact â–ş CBC â–ş 6/12/25
How voice actors talk â–ş SBS â–ş 6/12/25
The seven deadly tells of AI writing â–ş Forbes â–ş 6/12/25
Made by humans: the next badge of trust for brands â–ş The AI Journal â–ş 6/11/25
A classroom full of typewriters gets the ultimate reward – letters from Tom Hanks ► CBS News ► 6/11/25
“This is coming for everyone”: a new kind of AI bot takes over the web ► The Washington Post ► 6/11/25
Artists are using poisoned pixel cloaks to protect their art from AI â–ş Scilogs Spektrum â–ş 6/11/25
Pupils at small Fife school launch an outdoor reading café to inspire love of books ► Fife Today ► 6/11/25
Why do kids love reading the same book over and over? Child development experts explain â–ş Popular Science â–ş 6/11/25
AI summaries replace clicks leaving news sites with fewer readers and less income â–ş Digital Information World â–ş 6/11/25
From “Google Zero” to AI theft: how artificial intelligence is gutting the news industry ► Editor and Publisher ► 6/11/25
Disney and Universal team up to sue AI photo generator Midjourney, claiming copyright infringement â–ş CNN â–ş 6/11/25
How the Disney-Midjourney lawsuit could reshape the battle over AI and copyright â–ş Time â–ş 6/11/25
How Disney’s AI lawsuit could shift the future of entertainment ► The Washington Post ► 6/11/25
The Stage and The Bookseller launch audio storytelling award The Speakies â–ş The Stage â–ş 6/11/25
AI refusal in libraries: a starter guide â–ş ACRLog â–ş 6/11/25
Is “immersive reading” the ideal new way to experience books? ► The Globe and Mail ► 6/10/25
Toward a realpolitik for AI â–ş Public Books â–ş 6/10/25
Will the fear of being confused for AI mean that we will now write differently? â–ş 3 Quarks Daily â–ş 6/10/25
AI may be quicker, but it is no replacement for the creative process â–ş FT Adviser â–ş 6/11/25
BookTok increases reading, brings community to Generation Z â–ş The Daily Tar Heel â–ş 6/11/25
From page to popularity: BookTok’s role in shaping literary culture ► The Indiependent ► 6/10/25
Meta’s AI memorized books verbatim – that could cost it billions ► New Scientist ► 6/10/25
These bookstores exclusively sell romance novels in Toronto â–ş Your City Within â–ş 6/10/25
Getty Images faces off against Stability in court as first major AI copyright trial begins â–ş PetaPixel â–ş 6/10/25
Protests against artificial intelligence use in the industry planned at Annecy Animation Festival â–ş Animation Magazine â–ş 6/10/25
Who owns what? When copyright becomes the battleground of creativity â–ş Access Partnership â–ş 6/10/25
Oregon “freedom to read” library bill heads to governor’s desk ► Oregon Capital Chronicle ► 6/9/25
My top 3 distraction-free writing apps that helped me write dozens of novels â–ş ZDNet â–ş 6/9/25
Anthropic’s AI-generated blog dies an early death ► TechCrunch ► 6/9/25
Animals can’t talk like humans do – here’s why the hunt for their languages has left us empty-handed ► The Conversation ► 6/9/25
Japan government outlines plan to revitalize bookstores â–ş Asia News Network â–ş 6/10/25
The broken midlist: why it’s harder than ever to be a “moderately successful” author ► Arts Hub ► 6/10/25
Academic publishers sign AI deals as Trump cuts research funding â–ş Mint â–ş 6/10/25
What makes a perfect beach read? Your brain knows the answer â–ş NBC Right Now â–ş 6/9/25
The world’s first literacy-themed gas stations launch a summer reading adventure for kids ► CBS 42 ► 6/9/25
AI companies used 130,000 film and TV scripts to train generative models â–ş PetaPixel â–ş 6/9/25
Outsourcing intelligence: the silent cost of seamless AI â–ş Forbes â–ş 6/9/25
The inability to read for leisure disease â–ş The Oxford Blue â–ş 6/9/25
AI versus first jobbers: Here are six tips for bright young students as AI threatens entry-level jobs â–ş The Economic Times â–ş 6/8/25
The best apps for reading, tracking and listening to books â–ş Engadget â–ş 6/8/25
How does ChatGPT know so much about everything? Here’s where AI gets its knowledge from ► Tech Radar ► 6/7/25
Navigating AI-generated literature â–ş Pen City Current â–ş 6/9/25
AI industry alert: Geoffrey Hinton denounces fraudulent “Modern AI Revolution” book on Amazon ► Blockchain News ► 6/8/25
Politico’s AI tool spits out made-up slop, union says ► Semafor ► 6/8/25
AI is making friends with out children and it’s terrifying ► The Independent ► 6/8/25
Books.by launches self-publishing platform offering authors 100% royalties and complete sales transparency â–ş Big News Network â–ş 6/7/25
A novelist interviews his AI replacement â–ş The Dallas Morning News â–ş 6/7/25
Copyright and generative AI â–ş The Regulatory Review â–ş 6/7/25
A British publisher has stopped paying its writers royalties, and one author is responding by telling fans to stop buying her books â–ş The Popverse â–ş 6/7/25
Why we won’t use generative AI at Northern Express ► Northern Express ► 6/7/25
Between innovation and imitation: rethinking creativity with AI â–ş London Daily News â–ş 6/7/25
The U.S. Copyright Office used to be fairy low-drama. Not anymore â–ş NPR â–ş 6/6/25
What is Agentic AI? Everything to know about artificial intelligence agents â–ş CNET â–ş 6/6/25
AI disrupting entry-level job market for college graduates: report â–ş News Nation â–ş 6/6/25
Grab a drink at a silent book club speakeasy with Detroit bookstore Alcott’s Attic ► USA Today ► 6/6/25
International Coalition of Worker Unions declares emergency over AI use in animation â–ş Cartoon Brew â–ş 6/6/25
Librarians, teachers and others plan day of action to fight book bans and preserve history â–ş USA Today â–ş 6/6/25
UK government signals it will not force tech firms to disclose how they train AI â–ş The Guardian â–ş 6/6/25
The fine art of bad writing â–ş LA Review of Books â–ş 6/5/25
Writing as play: engaging elementary students â–ş Literacy Worldwide â–ş 6/5/25
How AI could reshape the path to professional masteryÂÂÂÂÂÂ â–ş No Jitter â–ş 6/5/25
Holding the pen in the age of prompts â–ş The Pioneer â–ş 6/6/25
Book bans erode empathy, something we desperately need more of â–ş Maine Morning Star â–ş 6/6/25
A neuroscientist explains why it’s impossible for AI to “understand” language ► The Conversation ► 6/5/25
AI firms say they can’t respect copyright. These researchers tried ► The Washington Post ► 6/5/25
New York, the world’s most linguistically diverse metropolis ► Columbia News ► 6/5/25
It’s peak A-level season, but AI is stealing young people’s futures before they have even started ► The Independent ► 6/5/25
Enjoy “AI slop” summer. What’s coming next is worse ► Fast Company ► 6/5/25
English-speaking countries more nervous about rise of AI, polls suggest â–ş The Guardian â–ş 6/5/25
Circana cites “dark romance” growing in US market ► Publishing Perspectives ► 6/5/25
Experts debate the use of AI in the music industry â–ş The Weekly Journal â–ş 6/5/25
Artists who use AI betray their peers and, ultimately, themselves â–ş The Daily â–ş 6/5/25
Strategic silencing: how censorship is reshaping scholarly discourse â–ş Times Higher Education â–ş 6/5/25
There are too many books: What happened to publishing’s summer break? ► 6/5/25
Ask a book editor â–ş 1A WAMU â–ş 6/4/25
U.S. Book Show 2025: the state of book businesses past, present, and future â–ş Publishers Weekly â–ş 6/4/25
U.S. Book Show: AI looms large across publishing sectors â–ş Publishers Weekly â–ş 6/4/25
Duolingo users are in turmoil over the app’s AI lessons ► Polygon ► 6/4/25
This is what happens when you ask an AI slop factory to write like me â–ş Toronto Star â–ş 6/4/25
The Washington Post is secretly planning to start publishing articles created using AI â–ş Futurism â–ş 6/4/25
In defense of Shakespeare â–ş Trill â–ş 6/4/25
Books as medicine â–ş Psychology Today â–ş 6/4/25
Bentonville school district Book Bus hits the road to keep students reading â–ş 4029 TV â–ş 6/4/25
A new health advisory calls on AI developers to protect young people â–ş NPR â–ş 6/4/25
Famous chef boasts that he’s using AI to invent new recipes ► Futurism ► 6/4/25
Is it sex education or porn? Huntington Beach comes to blows over library books â–ş Cal Matters â–ş 6/3/25
Why re-imagining classic literature as modern graphic novels is so important for young and reluctant readers â–ş Publishers Weekly â–ş 6/3/25
The FDA rolls out its own AI to speed up clinical reviews and scientific evaluations â–ş Engadget â–ş 6/3/25
Washington Post planning to bring in “nonprofessional writers” coached by an AI editor with a “story strength checker” ► Media ITE ► 6/3/25
Will AI wipe out the first rung of the career ladder? â–ş The Guardian â–ş 6/3/25
Time well spent: beyond success and failure in Romancelandia and academia â–ş Public Books â–ş 6/3/25
AI pioneer announces non-profit to develop “honest” artificial intelligence ► The Guardian ► 6/3/25
More than 50% of Americans have listened to an audiobook: Latest data on audiobook trends â–ş Book Riot â–ş 6/3/25
Digital audiobook piracy has grown in 2025 â–ş Good Ereader â–ş 6/3/25
“Incredibly useful” or “hallucinatory and racist”: How book professional have found using AI at work ► The Bookseller ► 6/3/25
Reading retreats: the ultimate getaway for book lovers â–ş Success â–ş 6/3/25
Texas teen takes literacy advocacy to new heights with Bookworm Global â–ş New Channel Nebraska â–ş 6/3/25
Inside Hollywood’s AI power struggle: Where does human creativity go from here? ► CNET ► 6/3/25
Meta’s plans for AI ads: How automation dismantles culture ► Forbes ► 6/3/25
AI slop and the rise of slop culture â–ş Search Engine People â–ş 6/3/25
Can we put a stop to internet slop? â–ş Psychology Today â–ş 6/3/25
Anthropic’s AI is writing its own blog – with human oversight ► TechCrunch ► 6/3/25
What the AI revolution means for the future of energy â–ş City Journal â–ş 6/2/25
“Nobody wants a robot to read them a story!” The creatives and academics rejecting AI – at work and at home ► The Guardian ► 6/3/25
Is AI sparking a cognitive revolution that will lead to mediocrity and conformity? â–ş The Conversation â–ş 6/2/25
6 brands taking a stand against AI content â–ş MarTech â–ş 6/2/25
Society of Authors creates toolkit to “empower” authors ► The Bookseller ► 6/2/25
“It’s so boring”: GenZ parents don’t like reading to their kids – and educators are worried ► The Guardian ► 6/2/25
Why some books are “life ruiners” ► Psychology Today ► 6/2/25
“I had to go all-in”: advice from a first-time novelist on writing, editing and promoting – and why he recorded his own audiobook ► Entrepreneur ► 6/2/25
Audiobook sales rose 13% in 2024, to $2.2 billion â–ş Publishers Weekly â–ş 6/2/25
Niche bookstores across Arkansas offer patrons more than just reading material â–ş Arkansas Democrat Gazette â–ş 6/1/25
When fiction feels like fact: How stories shape beliefs â–ş Psychology Today â–ş 6/1/25
Wonder machine: Will AI reshape our ability to experience awe? â–ş Forbes â–ş 6/1/25