This week's news is full of questions, and we're diving deep.
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Heard of the Icelandic Book Flood? Here's a deep dive: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/icelands-christmas-book-flood-is-a-force-of-nature-180981293/
Book ban update: foundations giving more money to help libraries buy books: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/91016-we-need-diverse-books-launches-bookssavelives-initiative-against-censorship.html
Social Book clubs: still a thing: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/12/legally-bookish-reese-witherspoon-and-the-boom-in-celebrity-book-clubs
E-book price fixing lawsuit is back, for how long? https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/91089-amazon-publishers-seek-to-knock-out-revived-e-book-price-fixing-suit.html
Shadow Libraries Fought the law, but the law won: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2022/december/in-the-shadow-library
The TikTok rumor mill blames influencers for the FBI's attention, but that seems unlikely: https://www.vulture.com/2022/12/booktoks-busy-year-plagiarism-period-drama-and-more.html
A great overview of the AI conversation as it stands today: https://countercraft.substack.com/p/the-only-sure-thing-with-ai-is-writing
Another wrinkle in the AI question, who owns the content it creates? https://www.forbes.com/sites/joemckendrick/2022/12/21/who-ultimately-owns-content-generated-by-chatgpt-and-other-ai-platforms/
And in poetry: Are poems in the eyes of the beholder? https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/can-ai-write-authentic-poetry/
