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Amazon has revised its Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) guidelines to require users to acknowledge AI-generated content, however the new section distinguishes between AI-generated content and AI-assisted content and does not compel disclosure of the latter.

Designer Steve Leard has launched a new book cover design podcast, “Cover Meeting”, with the first episode dropping on 12th September 2023. 

Ben Miller has signed a deal for another three titles for S&S UK.

The August assessment of Circana BookScan's Kristen McLean shows romance leading a drop in United States print book sales. The post Circana BookScan: US Print Book Market ‘Slowing a Bit’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

The international network of women in publishing, PublisHer, has its first gathering in Rio during this month's 21st Bienal do Livro. The post PublisHer Holds a First Rio Event During the Bienal do Livro appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Foyles has address claims that its Bristol shop has removed its fiction section. 

Bookselling Ireland, the committee of Booksellers Association members representing bookshops from across Ireland, together with Publishing Ireland, have announced plans for Irish Book Week 2023.

As submissions ramp up following the summer break, publishers and agents report seeing speculative fiction, alternative histories and “genre-bending”, stories, with “a paranormal renaissance” anticipated by one. 

Ben O’Donnell has succeeded Andrea Reece as FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival’s Director of the Children’s and Young People’s programme

Authors Frederick Forsyth, Mark Billingham, Claire Mackintosh and Ruth Ware are among a raft of crime authors confirmed as part of the programme for the first ever Chiltern Kills crime writing festival in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire.