Many readers (especially on Reddit) think that the regular use of em dashes and relatively unusual vocabulary (“delves” or “crucial”) is a big sign flashing “Chat-GPT”. But it isn’t — experienced writers use those things, too. So, are there better ways to distinguish text produced by humans from text produced by AI? - The Conversation
Briet invites publishers to sell their e-books to libraries outright, providing universal, perpetual access. Several independent publishers including PM Press, Punctum, Sideshow, and Silver Sprocket are on board. - Publishers Weekly
“While sales of such seemingly prescient novels as 1984 by George Orwell (1949) and Parable of the Sower by Olivia Butler (1993) (have) surged …, backlist nonfiction titles that explore and explain authoritarianism and fascism are also drawing readers to their local independent bookstores, despite a general downturn in nonfiction book sales.” - Publishers Weekly
For instance, The Philadelphia Inquirer includes access to the NYT Cooking app with its premium subscription, while The Minnesota Star Tribune does something similar with NYT Games. - Nieman Lab
A favorite tactic of Alden Global Capital is, when someone else is about to buy a newspaper, to jump in with a higher bid that’s difficult for the sellers to resist. That’s just what happened when Hearst agreed to buy the DMN. In this case, though, the key seller resisted. - Nieman Lab
Books are removed, and replaced with coffee bars and spaces for socializing. In case people don’t get the message, librarians now put up signs discouraging quiet study. - The Honest Broker
“A poet, photographer and bandleader, (he) explored race, music, politics, academia and family in dazzling, erudite and often funkified verse — ‘percussive prosody,’ he once called it — and was a founder of the Dark Room Collective, a noted community of Black poets.” - The New York Times
Sales of adult books dropped 9.6% in the month, with fiction sales off 8.3% and nonfiction falling 11.3%. For the first five months of 2025 adult book sales were down 4%, with fiction falling 4.9% and nonfiction down 2.7%. - Publishers Weekly
While younger generations, at least, have said in recent years that they want to see more platonic friendship and less sex on screen, reading appetites appear to be going in the other direction, with a huge boom in romance and “romantasy” – the romance-fantasy hybrid driven by TikTok. - The Guardian
There is social capital to be gained by simply looking as if you are a cultured person who listens to music on vinyl and reads lots of books. And creating an aesthetically pleasing bookshelf is now easier than ever, thanks to an increase in booksellers who trade in “books by the metre”. - The Guardian
Poetry has always been political. The writer and civil-rights activist Audre Lorde argued it produces “a revelatory distillation of experience”. In other words, by distilling aspects of an experience, poetry can reveal powerful truths about reality. - The Conversation
Edge-painted books are now so widespread that you can find them at Walmart. The feature has spread from romance and fantasy to horror, thrillers and even literary fiction; it’s spread from works by famous authors with ravenous followings to those by debut novelists hoping to make a splash. - Washington Post
The researchers tested two models each from ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, and found that journalism was by far the most common source for composing answers to queries (with the four outlets in the headline among the most frequently cited) — and that blocking journalistic sources often led to outdated or inaccurate answers. - Nieman Lab
