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Today’s Book News Monday, 1st December 2025 (London date) The 2025 PW Salary & Jobs Report Publishers Weekly’s annual survey found the industry’s workforce growing more diverse, with fewer respondents identifying as white and more early‑career...

Today’s Book News Sunday, 30th November 2025 (London date) The 2025 PW Salary & Jobs Report Publishers Weekly’s survey of more than six hundred publishing professionals found that the industry’s workforce is becoming slightly more diverse, with...

Today’s Book News Saturday, 29th November 2025 (London date) The 2025 PW Salary & Jobs Report The 2025 salary and jobs survey of 726 publishing professionals found the industry is diversifying, with 76% of respondents identifying as white (down...

Today’s Book News Friday, 28th November 2025 (London date) European Commission vote to amend EUDR welcomed by publishing sector The European Commission voted to amend the EU Deforestation Regulation so that books and other printed products are...

Today’s Book News Thursday, 27th November 2025 (London date) Antisemitism Draws Attention at AAR/SBL At the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature’s joint conferences, multiple sessions addressed antisemitism and urged...

So much nonsensical purple AI prose and overwriting! great game :)

Once upon a time in Litopia… our writers gathered for a weekly Huddle and turned familiar stories upside-down… This coming Saturday at 5:00 PM (UK time), we invite you to join your fellow Litopians for a playful yet professional creative...

Which is another problem... And then we have the over 50's going on 2 and governing countries.

They can do both. One of my 10 year old trampolinists who I coach was reading Diary of a Wimpy Kid one day and Stephen Fry's Mythos another day.

Amen to all that. A lot of kids are 8 going on 45 anyway.

I know, I feel the same. Reading is / should be a transgressive experience... read above your age range, for God's sake! :)

I really decry that idea of age appropriateness in libraries for any reason. I've now learned that if you read above the "appropriate" level you are considered "autistic." This idea that educators decide what is appropriate for children would...

Today’s Book News Wednesday, 26th November 2025 (London date) B&N and A24 partner on in‑store film‑themed shops Barnes & Noble announced a partnership with independent film company A24 to create A24‑branded shop sections and events within its...

Today’s Book News Tuesday, 25th November 2025 (London date) Lakeside Book Company buys B&T distribution arm Lakeside Book Company has acquired the distribution arm of Baker & Taylor Publisher Services, including a print‑on‑demand facility in...

Today’s Book News Monday, 24th November 2025 N.Y.C. Presses Come Together for the ‘Labor of Poetry’ Five New York City small presses—Belladonna* Collaborative, Futurepoem, Litmus Press, Winter Editions and World Poetry—formed Poetry Corp., an...