Coral Wire — Sat, Oct 3 2026

The Coral Index closed at 62/100 — Tailwinds building. 10 graded stories fed that reading.

• Amazon slashes KDP upload limit from ten titles to twoPlatform — The cap, effective Monday September 21, applies per format per week with no exceptions for reverted rights or backlists
• Appeals court hands Thomson Reuters first federal AI copyright winLegal — The 3rd Circuit rejected Ross Intelligence's fair use defense but said its reasoning may not stretch to generative AI tools like Claude or ChatGPT
• Two authors sue LA library over canceled Palestinian eventLegal — A petition drew 7,000 letters and 100-plus LAPL staff signed a protest letter before Matari and Murad filed suit
• AI company settles copyright suit against MicrosoftLegal — The case ends in a deal rather than a ruling, so the legal questions at its core go untested
• Tariffs and plant closure push books past pub dateMarket — Josh Silver's Fruit Fly and Marlon James's The Disappearers are among the titles caught in a fall supply squeeze.
• InkShares founder explains crowdfund-to-Hollywood pipelineMarket — Adam Gomolin points to The God in the Shed topping 100,000 units as proof the preorder model can find writers traditional houses pass on
• Massachusetts signs book-ban firewall after year-long author pushLegal — The law leans on Rhode Island's year-old S.0238 as its blueprint and limits challenges to school staff, caregivers, and students
• Sold becomes the most challenged book amid bansLegal — Author Patricia McCormick's publisher has built a revised educator guide and 20th-anniversary video to keep the title in classrooms.
• Audible adds AI chat features starting with Dracula spinoffPlatform — The beta starts with Audible Originals, letting listeners talk to a generative-AI version of Renfield from a Dracula adaptation this fall.
• DOJ tells OpenAI court that training on books is fair useLegal — The brief landed without input from the Copyright Office or Patent Office, breaking from DOJ's usual practice of consulting both.
• Audible's human-only rule locks out AI narratorsAI — Spotify, Apple Books, Google Play and Kobo all accept disclosed AI narration, but Audible's roughly 60% of the US market still won't touch it.

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