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7 August 2026 · Newsletter

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It’s been a quiet week for AI in publishing, though the authenticity questions I wrote about last week are rumbling on. Thanks to Thad Mc...

5 August 2026 · Post

How I Use AI

With a book coming out later this year and (at the time of writing) nearly 100,000 words of posts and newsletters on this website, I am g...

31 July 2026 · Newsletter

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Provenance and authenticity are the story this week: hyped books facing questions about authorship, alongside new research and regulation...

24 July 2026 · Newsletter

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To quote a classic film: show me the money… This week, the approval of the Bartz v. Anthropic settlement made that a promise for many pub...

23 July 2026 · Post

Books and Low-Background Steel

In 1919, in the natural harbour of Scapa Flow in Orkney, the German High Seas Fleet, interned there since the end of the First World War,...

17 July 2026 · Newsletter

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It’s been hard to ignore significant legal and policy developments for AI and publishing in recent days, with a major new class action la...

10 July 2026 · Newsletter

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It’s been a long, hot week on the road, seeing publishers in Dublin, Cambridge and London. Lots of the conversations were about choosing ...