Publishing News
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Happy 2025 everyone. We are officially a quarter-way through the 21st century. Frankly, I am just grateful humanity has made it this far… But jokes aside, I’m glad it’s a new year. I can’t wait to dive into new projects and see more published works out on the market. This past year had a lot…
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I know, I know, Taylor Swift has been in headlines about everything in 2024. Music, football, politics; she’s everywhere, and this time, she’s subverted the publishing world, and we may have to talk about it. Taylor Swift is undeniably a massive influence; her concert tickets for the Eras tour alone sold so much that Europe…
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HarperCollins recently inked a deal with artificial intelligence (AI) technology companies to allow backlisted books (or, published works that have been out for more than one year) to be used for AI training purposes, with the author’s express permission. The details of the deal are still a bit unclear, but so far it appears that…
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There was a bizarre story that erupted in the publishing industry earlier this year about Filippo Bernardini, an Italian citizen and former publishing employee who “stole” over 1,000 unpublished manuscripts by impersonating real publishing editors. This wasn’t just smaller, unknown authors either – although he did rouse them as well – but even big-time authors…
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By now, you’ve probably heard of ChatGPT, the OpenAI bot that does long-form question-answering by gathering data and is essentially regurgitated machine-learning. I was hoping to get this article out back when ChatGPT was new and unheard of, but I’m a tad late to that party. The whole chatbot concept isn’t anything new or groundbreaking.…
Donovan Levine | Agent, Writer, Copyeditor 