Coral Wire — Sun, Sep 27 2026

The Coral Index closed at 55/100 — Mixed signals. 13 graded stories fed that reading.

• Amazon slashes KDP weekly upload cap to two titlesPlatform — The new limit, effective September 21, replaces last year's cap of ten titles per format per week
• Goncourt-nominated novelist faces plagiarism claims after AI accusationLegal — Thélyson Orélien's novel sold in 20 countries including to Scribner, and now faces two separate credibility challenges at once
• Anthropic moves to dismiss authors' copyright suit on timingLegal — Anthropic says the plaintiffs' own complaint cites public disclosures old enough to sink their claims on statute-of-limitations grounds
• Kobo warns beta testers not to downgrade after data lossWire — Libby borrowing, clock display, and loading screens are all broken for users on the Kobo 6.0 beta
• Judge McMahon scolds Freeman's lawyers over delay tacticsLegal — McMahon says she won't be "jerked around" as fee-related filings drag out the Freeman-Wolff copyright case
• Ex-DK Learning executives start rival education publisherMarket — The move adds a new independent player to the education publishing market DK Learning once served.
• Big5 nonfiction books ship with zero advance reviews this yearMarket — An agent tells a veteran author that six-figure advance titles are now landing with no promotion and legal-gutted drafts
• Free calculator shows the real gap between KDP and printWire — A $4.99 ebook can net $3.12 a sale while a $14.99 paperback nets $5.14 once printing costs are counted in.
• OpenAI accuses plaintiffs' firm of buying its own evidenceLegal — The disputed research, a market-dilution study co-authored by copyright scholar Jane Ginsburg, is now accused of being commissioned by the very lawyers who used it.

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