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News Summary: TikTok Launches Microdrama App; Video Integration Reshapes Reading Culture

Serial stories with short but gripping episodes have been a staple of the cultural world ever since the oil lamps burned down and the children needed to wait until the following night to find out what happened to the monsters.

January 20, 2026
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News Summary: HarperCollins France Adopts AI Translation; Manga Industry Turns to Machine Learning

The uncomfortable relationship between AI and translation has been in the news again this week. HarperCollins in France has hired the services of Fluent Planet to help it save money by reducing the labor-intensiveness of the translation process. Fluent Planet will, it seems, be using machine learning to achieve this. The reaction has been exactly what, in short, you would imagine.

January 17, 2026
Dan Holloway
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News Summary: ALLi’s Indie Author Lab Returns to London in March

I am always thrilled to report on ALLi-related news, and today I bring especially exciting tidings. Tickets have just gone…

January 15, 2026
Howard Lovy
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News Summary: Audio Platforms Embrace Video, Audible and Spotify Expand Visual Features

This week begins with a decided sense of déjà vu. I was just entering secondary school when the cultural world turned on its axis and entered a new phase, as MTV launched and Buggles proclaimed that video killed the radio star.

January 13, 2026
Dan Holloway
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News Summary: Kirkus Acquires AudioFile, New Leadership at Publishing Perspectives

Reviews are one of the most important factors in enhancing the visibility and appeal of our books. And while one side of the coin is acquiring the numbers of Amazon reviews necessary for whatever the algorithm has decided to do that morning, or meeting the requirements of the likes of BookBub, the other side is securing a few high-profile, highly respected reviews. And for that, writers turn to one source more than any other: Kirkus.

January 10, 2026
Dan Holloway
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News Summary: Nebula Awards’ AI Policy Sparks Debate on Authorship and Process

The use of AI in competitions and beloved public literary events has become its own subgenre in a crowded news field. The two highest-profile instances have been the announcement by the Grammys that they would allow the use of AI in eligible tracks and albums and NaNoWriMo's statement that it would allow AI and criticizing those who would oppose such an approach.

January 8, 2026
Dan Holloway
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News Summary: Authors Guild Pushes Back on Amazon’s ‘Ask This Book’ AI Feature

The news starts 2026 as it ended 2025, with Amazon's new Ask This Book feature for Kindle books. When I first reported on this, I had yet to see the response from authors. Thanks to a link in Jane Friedman's newsletter, I have now been able to read and digest a very robust response indeed from the Authors Guild.

January 6, 2026
Dan Holloway
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News Summary: TikTok Secures Its US Future, Social Media Rules Shift for 2026

As I write, it is deep into the “off season” of the literary world, and news outlets in most places are slumbering in a post-Christmas haze. But not me (in part the result of finally recovering from a long bout of flu). Amid the midwinter quiet, I have dug my way to a couple of interesting stories about the shape that social media might take for us in 2026.

January 3, 2026
Dan Holloway
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News Summary: New Works Enter the Public Domain, Opening Creative Possibilities for Writers

One of the most exciting things about a new year in the literary world is the entry of a slew of new works into the public domain. Which means, in essence, that fan fiction, “homage” fiction, or simply using those characters in your own work is now a free-for-all and can be used for commercial purposes.

January 1, 2026
Dan Holloway
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News Summary: Authors Reject $3,000 AI Settlement, Seek Higher Damages in New Lawsuits

If the literary year 2025 could be summed up in a single figure, that figure would be $3,000. The amount, of course, scheduled to be paid for each eligible title in the Anthropic AI piracy settlement.

December 30, 2025
Dan Holloway
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News Summary: Copymight Coalition Forms to Tackle AI Copyright Challenges

Thank you to a fellow ALLi team member for passing along what will be the penultimate story of 2025. One of the things that has been so notable about the news this year has been the sheer number and diversity of copyright issues and lawsuits I’ve covered.

December 27, 2025
Dan Holloway
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News Summary: The News in 2025, Part 2 — Romantasy, Audiobooks, and the Rise of Bookshop.org

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate. Many of you will no doubt be marking the occasion by cracking the real or virtual spine of a new book. And as my reflection on the year moves away from AI, that’s the perfect segue into thinking about what kind of book most people are likely to be receiving from Santa.

December 25, 2025
Dan Holloway
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