AGP Executive Report
Last update: 12 hours agoChildren’s Publishing: Schools are seeking government guidance on whether to keep David Walliams’s books after sexual misconduct and grooming allegations were reported; Walliams denies wrongdoing, and some schools have begun removing his titles. Literary Prizes: Zak Jones’s Fancy Gap and Robert Moor’s In the Shadow of the Mountain led this year’s Writers’ Trust of Canada awards, among eight prizes worth more than $400,000. Booker Prize: M. John Harrison celebrated his win for The End of Everything at a Clarence House reception, becoming the prize’s oldest winner at 81. AI and Publishing: Canada now requires a human-authorship declaration for new ISBNs, while India’s Madras High Court has ordered an FIR over suspected fake, AI-generated books bought for public libraries. Publishing Business: Wilton Square has paid former Unbound authors £76,000 and is returning 202 titles to market.
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