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Just finished a pretty comprehensive Help Guide to the Author Platform – please take a look.

We've just added two new forums to help you share your feedback on the Author Platform: a Bug Report forum and a Feature Request forum. If something isn't working the way it should — whether it's an error message, a broken button, or something that just looks off — the bug report form is the...

DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News Grammarly Removes AI 'Expert Review' Feature That Mimicked Writers Grammarly has removed its AI-powered Expert Review feature following a backlash from authors who discovered it was impersonating their writing styles. The feature generated AI-produced...

If you would take your first tentative steps into the new Author Platform! Log in to Litopia.com You’ll then see the new home page. Browse around! At the top of the page, you’ll see your name. Click on it. Now you’re seeing your very own author home page. Everyone has their own exclusive...

The new author platform – which you can now access on Litopia.com as long as you’re logged in there – features an antidote to this. Each blog post you make comes with the option to upload your own reading of the post itself. Like you, I’m deeply allergic to AI voices (I have to turn them off...

DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News Authors Release Blank Book at London Book Fair to Protest AI Copyright Concerns Authors staged a protest at the London Book Fair by releasing a blank book, drawing attention to concerns over AI companies training on copyrighted works without permission...

DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News London Book Fair 2026: PRH U.K. CEO Tom Weldon Talks Book Fairs, AI, and 'Red Lines' Penguin Random House UK chief executive Tom Weldon delivered a wide-ranging opening keynote at the London Book Fair, addressing topics from artificial intelligence to...

DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News Amazon Veteran to Lead Simon & Schuster Greg Greeley, who spent nearly two decades at Amazon overseeing its books and media business, has been named chief executive of Simon & Schuster, succeeding Jonathan Karp. Greeley's Amazon background includes...

DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News Greg Greeley, Former Amazon Exec, Named CEO of Simon & Schuster Greg Greeley, who spent nearly two decades at Amazon overseeing its acquisition of Brilliance Audio and its expansion into print-on-demand, self-publishing, and international markets, has...

DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News The British Book Awards 2026 Book of the Year shortlists revealed The Bookseller has announced the shortlists for the 2026 British Book Awards Book of the Year across all categories. Bloomsbury to publish two new Sarah J. Maas books Bloomsbury...

DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News New Maas Books Boost Bloomsbury's Financial Expectations The announcement of the next two novels in Sarah J. Maas's A Court of Thorns and Roses series, scheduled for October 2026 and January 2027, has led Bloomsbury to raise its profit projections for...

(This is still not quite there... coverage will expand soon!) DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News Authors Guild expands 'Human Authored' certification programme The Authors Guild has opened its Human Authored certification programme, which verifies titles as written by humans and not AI...

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Daily News - 4 March 2026 'Publishing can support the UK becoming an AI content superpower' says PA New report shows that the AI licensing marketing is well established so calls for a copyright exception for tech giants for AI are... Read more... Picador wins 'heated' auction for American...

I hope you’re finding the daily news summary we’ve been posting here useful and interesting… it’s always beneficial for authors to take the pulse of the global, English-language book publishing industry. Our coverage consists, at the moment, of over 35 news sources, and I don’t believe there’s...