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Rozie Kelly wins £5k NorthBound Book Award
April 10, 2024 at 3:02 pm

Rozie Kelly has been announced as the winner of the £5,000 NorthBound Book Award for her manuscript Kingfisher, which will be published by Saraband as part of the prize.

German Book Prize: 180 Novels Submitted by 106 Publishers
April 10, 2024 at 1:03 pm

180 titles have been submitted for this year's German Book Prize, established to 'draw attention beyond national borders' to German fiction. The post German Book Prize: 180 Novels Submitted by 106 Publishers appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Meta ‘discussed buying publisher Simon & Schuster to train AI’
April 9, 2024 at 11:36 am

Audio shared with the New York Times appears to record executives discussing purchase of the US books giant to feed into its large language modelsStaff at technology company Meta discussed buying publishing house Simon & Schuster last year in order to procure books to train the company’s artificial intelligence tools, it has been reported.According to…