Commented - Literature

'It’s totally unhinged’: is the book world turning against Goodreads? ( www.theguardian.com )

Hopefully. Join Bookwyrm!

I Would Rather See My Books Get Pirated Than This (Or: Why Goodreads and Amazon Are Becoming Dumpster Fires) | Jane Friedman ( janefriedman.com )

tl;dr Books, most likely generated by an LLM, were being sold on Amazon under Jane Friedman’s name. The same books were added to her Goodreads profile. Amazon initially refused to remove the books. If it’s happening to her, it’s definitely happening to other authors.

Peter Pan and the Copyright that Never Grew Up - Plagiarism Today ( www.plagiarismtoday.com )

When most people discuss perpetual copyrights, they’re usually its at least somewhat hyperbolic....

Let's talk about Goodreads: Publishing obsesses over Goodreads, but does Goodreads actually sell books? ( misshelved.substack.com )

No one buys books ( www.elysian.press )

Not sure I like the "Netflix of books" suggestion(libraries exist!), but I thought this was interesting.

The Great Fiction of AI: The strange world of high-speed semi-automated genre fiction ( www.theverge.com )

Latinx authors are renowned in sci-fi and fantasy. Why aren’t more of their books being published? ( 19thnews.org )

Here are 19 books our critics are excited for this summer (NPR) ( www.npr.org )

Some of these look really interesting! Definitely want to check out Silver Nitrate since I’ve enjoyed her work in the past. Anything catch your eye?

Lemmy Exclusive Book Giveaway: Ghost Trigger ( beehaw.org )

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Amazon Kindle e-book updates need a public changelog ( goodereader.com )

Transfer Orbit: 17 new sci-fi and fantasy books to read in September 2023 ( transfer-orbit.ghost.io )

this is one of the main newsletters i use to keep up with new sci-fi and speculative fiction releases. it’s pretty good!

Report finds YouTube more popular than TikTok for young book buyers ( www.theguardian.com )

Sci-fi books are rare in school even though they help kids better understand science ( theconversation.com )

‘Times change’: what authors think about rewriting older books ( www.theguardian.com )

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Oddly current events related: Dead Wake (Erik Larson) - On the sinking of the Lusitania and the US’ entrance into WWI ( eriklarsonbooks.com )

I had picked this up at a used book store a long ways back after reading nothing but rock bios for a while - thought a little historical non-fiction could beef my brain up....

This bookshop in Fort Collins is paying people to sit down and read quietly ( coloradosun.com )

Perelandra Bookshop’s reader-in-residence commits to reading at the store for two hours per week in exchange for a small coffee and book stipend

How Much Does It Cost to Open a Bookstore? | Book Riot ( bookriot.com )

Jacqueline Wilson says rewriting children’s books can be justified ( www.theguardian.com )

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English-Language Books Are Filling Europe’s Bookstores. Mon Dieu! ( www.nytimes.com )

Publishers are complaining that people prefer to read the novels in English instead of their native tongues.

What Orwell Really Feared ( www.theatlantic.com )

Against Disruption: On the Bulletpointization of Books ( lithub.com )

I’m not saying that all self-help is bad. There’s always been an audience for short and snappy self-improvement books (there’s a reason why there are only 7 Habits, not 70), and that’s just fine. But I do worry about a larger phenomenon that I’ll call the bulletpointification of books and media....