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The Times recounted a true‑crime story involving a young man’s obsession with a notorious “school Nazi,” leading to tragic consequences. Fucking Times firewall. Fucking cowardly turncoat Grey Lady. Conclusion: small town libraries are again...

Daily Book News Friday, 9th January 2026 Publishing Industry News Marble Press Acquires CamCat Publishing Assets from B&T Marble Press purchased CamCat Publishing’s catalogue and intellectual property from Baker & Taylor, obtaining 124 adult...

Daily Book News Thursday, 8th January 2026 Publishing Industry News B&T Liquidation Firm Holds Closeout Sale The GA Group is selling more than 465,000 books left from Baker & Taylor’s liquidation, with the stock valued at roughly $7.8 million...

Apologies, the main litopia.com site is unexpectedly down due to, ahem, some code mismanagement. Working on it now.

Daily Book News Wednesday, 7th January 2026 DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News Religion publishers snap up suspense, midlife and parenting books HarperCollins Christian Publishing acquired a romantic‑suspense trilogy, WaterBrook signed a...

Daily Book News Tuesday, 6th January 2026 Publishing Industry News Book Deals: Week of January 5, 2026 The latest deal round‑up sees Ibram X. Kendi’s nonfiction manifesto Chain of Ideas picked up by One World, Emma Donoghue’s dystopian Blaze...

Daily Book News Monday, 5th January 2026 DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News Book Deals: Week of January 5, 2026 One World bought Ibram X. Kendi’s “Chain of Ideas” on the spread of Great Replacement theory, Summit pre‑empted Emma...

How much nuance does the typical romance have? Or the typical Amish mystery? BTW ... during my recent trip to London, I visited several bookstores and didn't see anything that resembled American-style romances. For that matter, I didn't see much...

@AgentPete In technical writing, it's become pretty much flawless. That's due to the nature of technical writing: staid, voiceless, template stuff, which is perfect for machine translation. Firms still have humans checking because of the...

Daily Book News Sunday, 4th January 2026 DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News Post-B&T, Vendors Jostle for the Library Market After wholesaler Baker & Taylor’s closure left libraries scrambling, vendors like Amazon Business, Barnes & Noble...

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...