The audiobook streamer and the nonprofit, which helps self-published romance authors create their first audiobook, will fund eight underrepresented authors’ audiobooks and provide them with end-to-end...

Ahead of Little Free Library Week, held May 17–23, the nonprofit is designating a new focal point for the weeklong celebration, and encouraging neighborhood involvement with a mobile app, bingo game, ...

The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Grant for Children’s and Young Adult Novelists awards $5,000 to an author of children’s or young adult fiction.

Dear Readers… We have a winner for The Editor's 30-Year Celebration giveaway of a FREE Substantive Edit of a full picture book manuscript (up to 900 words) or the first 20 pages of a chapter book, Mid...

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Copyright holders recently secured preliminary approval of a $1.5 billion class settlement in the Bartz v. Anthropic case, in which authors Andrea Bartz, Kirk Johnson, and Charles Graeber led a class-...

Today, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems—the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history. The parties in Bartz v Anthropic...

Settlement could be pivotal after authors claimed company took pirated copies of their work to train chatbots

Earlier this summer, a federal court in California issued a major ruling in Bartz v. Anthropic, one of the copyright class action lawsuits involving AI. The court held that a trial should occur over w...