Author Notes #8 (April 2024)

Publishing insights, the latest on AI, new research on crime writing, a way of supporting local bookstores, and some great author interviews

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There’s been lots of discussion this month about an article doing the rounds called, No one buys books by Elle Griffin, which looks at traditional publishing in the light of the Department of Justice v. Penguin Random House antitrust case in the US (when the government intervened to stop PRH merging with Simon & Schuster). If you haven’t read the arti…