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AI writing tools may erase cultural nuances ► Neuroscience News ► 4/29/25

The great language flattening ► The Atlantic ► 4/29/25

Will AI replace writers? One author’s perspective ► Lit Reactor ► 4/29/25

Academic publisher Wiley calls for “ethical and legal data sourcing practices within AI” ► The Bookseller ► 4/29/25

Publishers Association launches parliamentary report into boosting children’s reading for pleasure ► The Bookseller ► 4/29/25

Reading behind bars, and beyond barriers ► LA Review of Books ► 4/29/25

Industry salaries have risen since 2018, ACP salary survey shows ► Quill & Quire ► 4/28/25

Americans largely foresee AI having negative effects on news, journalists ► Pew Research ► 4/28/25

Opinion: How can anyone bear to make art anymore? ► The Scarlet & Black ► 4/28/25

AI suggestions make writing more generic, Western ► Cornell Chronicle ► 4/28/25

Waiting for the paperback Good luck ► Tovima ► 4/27/25

Opinion: AI will ruin art, and it will ruin the sparkle in our lives ► The Globe and Mail ► 4/27/25

Experts concerned that AI is making us stupider ► Futurism ► 4/27/25

The Pronoun Wars ► The Washington Free Beacon ► 4/27/25

Amazon’s big book sale just happens to overlap with Independent Bookstore Day ► Tech Crunch ► 4/26/25

Mapped: The most popular book genre in each U.S. state ► Visual Capitalist ► 4/26/25

Protect Europe’s creative soul! – Open letter Creators for Europe United ► European Writers’ Council ► 4/26/25

AI art trends keep going viral. Illustrators don’t want people to just roll over ► Rolling Stone ► 4/26/25

The future of AI art regulation ► The Regulatory Review ► 4/26/25

AI has no stake in relaying accurate information to readers ► The Marietta Times ► 4/26/25

Is anything real anymore? AI making Americans suspicious of everything online ► Study Finds ► 4/25/25

Big Tech’s free use of copyrighted work to train AI devalues creators, crowns a new techno-elite ► Economic Times ► 4/25/25

Opinion: You should judge a book by its cover ► The Student Life ► 4/25/25

Los Angeles Times Book Prizes ► Los Angeles Times ► 4/25/25

Trump administration pressures Europe to ditch AI rulebook ► Financial Post ► 4/25/25

Art is a form of communication between human beings. AI won’t change that ► The Globe and Mail ► 4/25/25

In the age of AI, we must protect human creativity as a natural resource ► Ars Technica ► 4/25/25

Lauren Billings and Christina Hobbs: “We write romance for ourselves, for each other, and for readers” ► PEN America ► 4/25/25

Trump signs executive order to ramp up K-12 AI education ► Government Technology ► 4/24/25

Adobe’s new app helps credit creators and fight AI fakery ► The Verge ► 4/24/25

Adobe releases “created without generative AI” tag to label human-generated art ► Fast Company ► 4/24/25

Science sleuths flag hundreds of papers that use AI without disclosing it ► Nature ► 4/24/25

AI stole my words – then accused me of plagiarism ► The Bay State Banner ► 4/23/25

Collective license to ensure UK authors get paid for works used to train AI ► The Guardian ► 4/23/25

A call for transparency regarding AI generated books – joint statement ► European Writers’ Council ► 4/23/25

Get ready to write your book: 5 tips on becoming an author ► Poynter ► 4/23/25

Isabel Allende’s editor corrects “offensive” outdated references for new YA editions ► The Bookseller ► 4/23/25

Penguin Random House leads amicus brief in LGBTQ+ books case ► Publishing Perspectives ► 4/22/25

I found an entire book that was written about … me. It only got weirder from there ► Slate ► 4/22/25

Britain vs. America: a centuries-old grammatical battle ► Aunt Minnie Europe ► 4/22/25

Announcing the winners of the 2025 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction ► LitHub ► 4/21/25

The power of BookTok: Why TikTok’s book community is driving a new era in publishing ► Forbes ► 4/21/25

Circana’s Q1 US print report: romance, romantasy lead adult fiction ► Publishing Perspectives ► 4/21/25

AI regurgitating ideas, not telling something new: comic book writer-creator Jim Zub ► The Economic Times ► 4/21/25

With “AI slop” distorting our reality, the world is sleepwalking into disaster ► The Guardian ► 4/21/25

How musicians are sabotaging AI with inaudible tricks ► 4CA ► 4/21/25

The Studio Ghibli AI art trend might be fun – but it’s also a privacy nightmare ► On Focus ► 4/20/25

Artists push back against AI dolls with their own creations ► BBC ► 4/19/25

Fact-checking if AI ruins your writing ability► Calgary Journal ► 4/19/25

What’s so independent about these Minnesota bookstores? Plenty. ► The Minnesota Star Tribune ► 4/19/25

“Don’t ask what AI can do for us, ask what it is doing to us”: are ChatGPT and co harming human intelligence? ► The Guardian ► 4/19/25

Books, burnout and the business of reading ► The Daily Californian ► 4/18/25

The irresistible allure of books about bookstores ► Publishers Weekly ► 4/18/2

If you use AI to write me that note, don’t expect me to read it. ► Fast Company ► 4/18/25

News/Media Alliance hails court ruling on Google Ad tech monopoly ► News/Media Alliance ► 4/17/25

Amazon’s AI recommends: Antisemitism ► ADL ► 4/17/25

Meta says books used to train its LLMs are “worthless” ► BookRiot ► 4/16/25

Creators are losing the AI copyright battle. We have to keep fighting. ► The Hollywood Reporter ► 4/16/25

AI threatens creators’ livelihoods, experts say ► Publishers Weekly ► 4/16/25

Challenging “publish or perish” culture – researchers call for overhaul of academic publishing ► Phys.org ► 4.16.25

6 things I learned from un-trunking my novels and getting them published ► Writers Digest ► 4/9/25 (yes, out of order, but I don’t want folks to miss this one - I proofed her book!)

Taking humor writing seriously ► SFWA ► 4/15/25

Publishing platform Medium says it’s sticking with DEI ► TechCrunch ► 4/15/25

AI action figures flood social media (accessories included) ► The New York Times ► 4/15/25

A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers—and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data ► The Conversation ► 4/15/25

AI is dead ► Texas Observer ► 4/15/25

Meta AI lawsuit: US publishers file amicus brief ► Publishing Perspectives ► 4/14/25

AI is dead ► Texas Observer ► 4/15/25

Tribes, North Dakota partner to update 30-year-old textbooks on Native history ► North Dakota Monitor ► 4/14/25

How can you make time for book writing? ► Poynter ► 4/14/25

Tariffs aren’t targeting books, but economic chaos is having a chilling effect on N.L. publishers ► CBC ► 4/14/25

AI-generated action figures were all over social media. Then, artists took over with hand-drawn versions. ► NBC News ► 4/13/25

Poll finds Americans are largely disgusted by AI-generated news ► Futurism ► 4/13/25

How AI’s latest advancements could reshape creative professions ► The New Zealand Herald ► 4/13/25

The Loft Literary Center offers Indigenous, diverse-focused writing classes for zero cost ► Minnesota Daily ► 4/13/25

How a philosopher who criticized Trump and Musk turned out to be an AI experiment ► Decrypt ► 4/12/25

Studio Ghibli AI filter trend is “an insult to life itself,” yet another example of how human-made art is under attack ► North Texas Daily ► 4/13/25

Paying artists for AI art would be “cool,” says OpenAI CEO Sam Altman ► The Decoder ► 4/13/25

“You can’t make a living writing books in Poland”: Royalty row erupts over bestseller’s earnings ► EuroNews ► 4/12/25

Saving the story of print, one Linotype at a time: Inside the Museum of Printing ► Editor & Publisher ► 4/12/25

AI can now create Ghibli art: a threat to creativity of just the next step? ► Japan Forward ► 4/12/25

AI and human creativity can totally coexist – if AI doesn’t end up eating the thing keeping it alive ► Hackernoon ► 4/12/25

A.I. my A.S. ► Ricochet ► 4/12/25

AI-generated images can exploit how your mind works – and here’s why they fool you and how to spot them ► The Telegraph ► 4/11/25

AI translations still inadequate ► The observer ► 4/11/25

Law professors side with authors battling Meta in AI copyright case ► TechCrunch ► 4/11/25

California creatives rally behind state AI rules to save their artwork ► SF Public Press ► 4/11/25

The publishing industry has a serious waste problem, and it needs to stop now ► LitHub ► 4/9/25

Politicians Assert U.S. Constitution mandates protecting creativity ► Publishers Weekly ► 4/9/25

Why publishers are pivoting to community as a new source of growth ► Digiday ► 4/8/25

The 10 most-challenged books in U.S. libraries have faced complaints in Canada, too ► CBC ► 4/8/25

Why CEOs should think twice before using AI to write messages ► Harvard Business Review ► 4/2025

Is AI truly creative? Study shows how visibility of process shapes perception ► Techxplore ► 4/7/25

“An overwhelmingly negative and deomoralizing force”: what it’s like working for a company that’s forcing AI on its developers ► Aftermath ► 4/7/25

Inventing truths: What Toni Morrison’s fiction taught me about writing memoir ► LitHub ► 4/7/25

News Media Publishers run coordinated ad campaign urging Washington to protext content from big tech and AI ► News Media Alliance ► 4/7/25

Digital artist share what it’s like to have his work “ruined by AI” ► My Modern Met ► 4/6/25

To use AI wisely, humans must summon morality ► Deccan Herald ► 4/5/25

Sask. mushroom pickers sound alarm on dangerously misleading AI-generated books ► CBC ► 4/5/25

Writers vs. AI: The current state of AI in content marketing ► InsideNova ► 4/4/25

Generative AI and copyrightability: report from the US Copyright Office ► Writer Beware ► 4/4/25

The artifact isn’t the art: Rethinking creativity in the age of AI ► Freethink ► 4/4/25

How will Trump’s tariffs affect books? ► BookRiot ► 4/4/25

Studio Ghibli-style controversy: Why the internet is divided over AI-generated art and what’s at stake ► Live Mint ► 4/4/25

Oxford experts warn of AI’s impact on human creativity ► Oxford Mail ► 4/4/25

Chimp relatives use humanlike grammar, study finds ► The Hill ► 4/3/25

Amazon Kindle’s new feature uses AI to generate recaps for books in a series ► TechCrunch ► 4/3/25

What AI anime memes tell us about the future of art and humanity ► The Verge ► 4/3/25

Generating your AI grave? Canva sheds technical writing staff after directing them to use artificial intelligence ► Startup Daily ► 4/3/25

Like reading? Reductress Book Club is here to make fun of you. ► LitHub ► 4/3/25

Using AI reduces your critical thinking skills, Microsoft study warns ► Live Science ► 4/3/25

“Romance novels teach empathy”: Abby Jimenez cooks up love stories ► PEN ► 4/3/25

“Meta has stolen books”: authors to protest in London against AI trained using “shadow library” ► The Guardian ► 4/3/25

How I realized AI was making me stupid – and what I do now ► Wall Street Journal ► 4/3/25

Creativity: protecting digital IP rights in the AI era ► Modern Diplomacy ► 4/3/25

When AI is the editor, consumer complaints are more likely to succeed ► Yale Insights ► 4/2/25

Scandal-hit creative writing website NaNoWriMo to close after 20 years ► The Guardian ► 4/2/25

Here’s how AI evolved from basic grammar rules to today’s generative AI fluency ► Forbes ► 4/2/25

AI in audiobooks: another slippery slope ► The Boar ► 4/2/25

Tim O’Reilly says Open AI stole his company’s paywalled book content ► Thurrott ► 4/2/25

Longtime writing community NaNoWriMo shuts down after AI drama ► Gizmodo ► 4/1/25

Can writers ever remember how to read for fun? ► LitHub ► 4/1/25

NaNoWriMo is shutting down ► LitHub ► 4/1/25

Sam Altman says 1 million people signed up for ChatGPT in just 60 minutes after the company launched its viral image-generation feature ► Fortune ► 4/1/25

How to navigate the publishing industry with social anxiety ► Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association ► 4/1/25