Round Two

Fresh off their victory against Anna’s Archive last month, a coalition of publishers, including the Big Five, are suing yet another pirate website, WeLib, for copyright infringement. In the months since the closure of wholesaler Baker & Taylor, library vendors such as Brodart, Follett, and Amazon are vying for market dominance by innovating new solutions for frontlist preorders and fulfillment. And Wiley saw its profits jump more than 160% in fiscal 2026, thanks in large part to AI licensing deals with a growing roster of tech firms and corporate customers. In other news, Netflix has ordered a series adaptation of Hannah Grace’s hockey romance Icebreaker, with Gossip Girl’s Amanda Lasher serving as showrunner, via TVLine. Picture book Our World Is a Family, published by Sourcebooks in 2022, is getting a reprint after a BookTok influencer sent it to the top of bestseller lists earlier this year, per the L.A. Times. The Tell author Amy Griffin is suing the former classmate who alleged Griffin appropriated her personal experiences of sexual abuse for her bestselling memoir, and Knopf will publish a new novel by Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro—a spy caper set in 1930s England—next spring, reports the AP. Like their stateside counterparts, U.K. publishers are increasingly betting on existing IP amid economic tumult, according to the Bookseller. And R.F. Kuang sits down with Vogue Australia to offer her book recommendations for “living a good life.”