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Small press · Urban fantasy · Dark fantasy
Baton Rouge fantasy writer and MFA graduate preparing his debut novel, Gods and Monsters, with a boutique small press.
The academic press joins Rockefeller University Press and Springer in routing its catalog through a licensing platform built to keep scholarly work out of LLM training sets while still supporting retrieval-augmented AI tools.
The Federal Trade Commission’s regulations targeting consumer and book review fraud carry penalties of up to $51,744 per violation for operations buying fake reviews.
New registration guidance clarifies the threshold of human authorship required for copyright registration when authors use AI writing assistants.
Revised print costs for paperback and hardcover titles prompt independent authors to re-evaluate retail list prices across international marketplaces.
Major print-on-demand distributor lowers barriers for self-publishers, offering free title uploads and revision submissions.
Following its acquisition of Smashwords, Draft2Digital completes backend integration, expanding author promotional tools.
New registration option simplifies copyright filing for web novelists and authors publishing serialized online chapters.
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Regulatory review focuses on open access processing fees and bundled institutional journal subscription contracts.
Review Board upholds decision denying copyright registration to text generated entirely by AI prompts without human editing.
Court decision clarifies public domain and licensing rules for historical audiobooks and archival spoken-word recordings.
Revised postal rates for educational and literary print media prompt authors and indie presses to adjust shipping fees.
