Dead to Rights

Five of the country’s largest publishers—including Hachette, Macmillan, and McGraw Hill—have filed a class action lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg for copyright infringement, alleging that millions of pirated works were used to train the company’s AI at Zuckerberg’s behest. Daniel Kraus’s Angel Down is the winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction, with Jill Lepore and Yiyun Li also taking home two of the nonfiction prizes. The Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, The Hunger Games, and The Giver were some of the most popular titles checked out by K-12 students on OverDrive’s reading platform Sora last year, per its latest report on student reading habits. And HarperCollins has inked a four-book deal with The Pumpkin Spice Café author Laurie Gilmore. In other news, Hachette’s French division, Hachette Livre, has launched a book-to-screen joint venture with French production company StudioCanal, Deadline reports. Results from BookNet Canada’s 2025 survey showed that a high proportion of Canadians report reading at least one book in the past year, with half reporting weekly reading. Common Edge examines the dearth of publishing outlets for architecture books, and author Maria Semple offers some unconventional novel-writing advice in Lit Hub. Science writer Susan D’Agostino argues for the merits of signing with an agent who’s critical of one’s work, via Inside Higher Ed. And Universal Pictures dropped the trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, set to hit theaters July 17.