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Yes, I agree. It feels very much as if this is testing the water… Let’s see if authors / translators / readers complain about it, and if not, then we’ve saved ourselves a bunch of dosh. Nor will it stop there, of course. @Aethalope I have yet...

The shift to AI as a translator, though. Yes it's 'only' romance and 'only' English to French, but if it turns out to viable, it won't stop there. Will AI be able to capture the nuance of the original? No, but then human translators didn't...

It’s fun, it’s mildly eccentric, and it’s all yours… unless you attended last year’s final Huddle, in which case, you may recognize some of the questions :) Boast about your score achievements here. I’m sure you’ll be honest :)

Is it just me, or is this a bit more upbeat than what I've been hearing elsewhere?

DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News HarperCollins replaces its romance translators with AI Harlequin, the romance imprint of HarperCollins, laid off its in‑house French translators and is now using Fluent Planet’s AI tools to translate its...

Daily Book News Monday, 28th December 2025 Copymight Coalition Forms to Tackle AI Copyright Challenges A group dubbed the Copymight Coalition launched to pursue litigation and collective licensing deals against generative‑AI firms that scrape...

Today’s Book News Saturday, 27th December 2025 PublisHer and Sharjah Publishing City unite to advance women publishers PublisHer signed a memorandum of understanding with Sharjah Publishing City Free Zone to support women‑owned publishing...

Today’s Book News Friday, 26th December 2025 News Summary: The News in 2025, Part 2 — Romantasy, Audiobooks, and the Rise of Bookshop.org Romantasy dominated 2025’s reading charts across print, e‑book and audiobook formats, with authors like...

What an utter load of horseshit. And it reads like it was written by AI… all fluff, no actual reasonable content. "Our tool shifts the balance of power back to the writers," said cofounder Steve El-Sharawy. "For me, the most exciting part of...

Today’s Book News Wednesday, 24th December 2025 Chaos in Washington, Distribution Turmoil Made for a Tumultuous 2025 A Publishers Weekly review of 2025 said the U.S. administration targeted cultural agencies while libraries and comics...

It’s total shit :) Based on a fundamentally-flawed understanding of, well, everything to do with writing and reading. Make no mistake. This is very obviously the next “step” towards total manuscript automation, which has been a wet dream for a...

The Walliams story is one of the biggest of the year. He was a huge money-earner for HC. This together with yet more revelations about “The Salt Path” and its apparently-fraudulent author - Raynor Winn – raises very serious issues about due...

The stories about David Williams are interesting for a number of reasons. I know nothing of the allegations nor the facts, so can't judge. I have neither fondness nor antipathy towards this celebrity writer. But that the author himself apparently...

Today’s Book News Tuesday, 23rd December 2025 Book industry M&A in 2025: key deals and trends A Publishers Weekly report on mergers and acquisitions noted that 2025 saw significant deals such as Lakeside Book Company’s purchase of Baker &...

Today’s Book News Monday, 22nd December 2025 Mary Anne Carter returns to lead the National Endowment for the Arts The U.S. Senate confirmed Mary Anne Carter to a second term as chair of the National Endowment for the Arts. Carter previously...