Coral Wire — Fri, Sep 25 2026

The Coral Index closed at 42/100 — Headwinds. 13 graded stories fed that reading.

• Amazon cuts KDP weekly upload cap to two titles per formatPlatform · Breaking — It's not Amazon's first squeeze on volume publishing — a similar limit reportedly dates back to 2023
• Unsealed filings tie OpenAI training data to LibGenLegal — Court documents describe the pirated book repository in blunt internal terms, not corporate euphemism
• Florida orders schools to pre-ban books before parents complainLegal — Commissioner Henry Mack's seven-page letter gives districts a 90-day plan to weed titles proactively, backed by threats to funding
• HarperCollins pulls David Walliams titles from its backlistMarket — The publisher has dropped his backlist rather than quietly letting it ride
• Print sales hit $745 million as trade posts second record monthMarket — Adult nonfiction led the surge, up 23 percent, while a separate e-book tally shows digital revenue sliding 3.4 percent.
• Copyright Alliance says piracy claims no fair use passLegal — The group argues pirated training data needs a compelling justification courts are unlikely to find, since legitimate copies are widely available.
• Granta's book sales fall 9% as rights income climbsMarket — The publisher's 2025 numbers show rights revenue growing by a quarter even as print and book sales slid
• Union Square launches Singularity, a 10-12 title novella lineMarket — The new imprint's first slate lands Fall 2026, including a fresh edition of Harlan Ellison's I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
• Amazon ID checks and Meta bans expose rented platform riskPlatform — Authors are being pushed to own their customer data after watching KDP verification demands and Facebook account lockouts cut off access with little warning
• Survey of 490 sapphic authors finds 71% now go indieCommunity — The three-week poll also found 47% of respondents have published three novels or fewer, even as veteran authors with a decade or more in the genre make up 30% of the group.

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