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Link: Red Flags for Indie Authors 12 May 2025

Here are some tips for avoiding getting scammed

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Whats new: 12 May 2025 - What's new 12 May 2025

'I did something which I haven't done before, which was really just play. I went into the British Library, looked at a whole load of books about subjects I was interested in, and just waited to see anything that jumped out at me.

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Link: An open letter to the thieves who used AI to copy my book 12 May 2025

Kate Thompson was horrified to discover that her book, The Sunday Times bestseller, A Mother's Promise, had been plagiarised and rewritten by AI - just days after publication. And then it happened again.

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Link: Copyright Chief Fired Amid AI Debate 12 May 2025

On Saturday, the Trump administration fired Shira Perlmutter, the register of copyrights and director of the U.S. Copyright OfficeThe US copyright office has information on its website about how...

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Link: Publishers Prepare for Battle with Big Tech Over AI 12 May 2025

Protection of copyright has always been a top priority for the Association of American PublishersThe national trade association of the American book publishing industry; AAP has more than 300...

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Link: 'Two ways' of pursuing legal case against Meta, says former Waitrose boss Mark Price 12 May 2025

Mark Price has said he has been advised that there are "two grounds on which a legal case could realistically be pursued" against Meta in the UK for the company's use of pirated books to train artificial intelligence (AI) models.

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Link: Peter Buckman on his latest adventure in publishing 12 May 2025

Literary agent and writer Peter Buckman has embarked upon a voyage into the world of self-publishing

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Link: Avoiding Rookie Errors 12 May 2025

A writer shares five things she wishes she'd known before publishing her first book

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Link: PW Select - BookLife April 28, 2025 - Red Flags for Indie Authors 12 May 2025

Here are some tips for avoiding getting scammed

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Link: Q&A: The Wildelings author Lisa Harding 12 May 2025

Lisa Harding tells BookBrunch about her new novel, creating complex protagonists, and her inspirations

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Link: Promoting Merlin 12 May 2025

Promoting a new book is almost as much a full-time occupation for an author these days as is the job of actually writing of it, says Mark Ellis

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Link: Highly Anticipated Final Volume of Philip Pullman’s Book of Dust Trilogy Slated for October 12 May 2025

When readers first met her in The Golden Compass (first published in the U.K. in 1995 as Northern LightsHandy site which provides links to 7,500 US publishers' sites and online catalogues. www....

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