Coral Wire — Fri, Oct 23 2026

The Coral Index closed at 57/100 — Mixed signals. 14 graded stories fed that reading.

• Kindle Unlimited renamed Kindle+ as audiobook royalties open upPlatform · Breaking — Amazon will pay KDP Select authors through the Global Fund for audiobook listening as well as ebook reading, starting with US subscribers
• Boréal drops Orélien after AI tags found in draft metadataLegal · Breaking — The Quebec publisher says an outside analysis found AI tags in the metadata of some of Orélien's draft documents.
• Nearly 300 authors skip class action to sue Meta soloLegal — Attorney Kyle Roche says his firm represents more than 2,200 authors and plans up to 1,000 individual claims by year's end
• Catapult shuts down, sells assets by October 30Market — The sale leaves 16 spring 2027 frontlist titles across four imprints in limbo with no buyer named.
• Florida School Board Lacks ‘Legislative Privilege’ for Unexplained Book Removals, Court SaysLegal — Judges ruled the Escambia County board acted as administrators, not legislators, when it pulled books from library shelves
• OpenAI gets Chakrabarty dilution paper dropped from suitLegal — Plaintiffs did not oppose the motion, and the widely cited paper on AI market dilution is out of the evidence record
• School budget cuts shrink author visit bookings nationwideMarket — Phil Bildner of the Author Village says most of his roster has far fewer public school visits scheduled for 2026-2027
• Martin's launches Tytora, a puzzle and games imprintMarket — The new imprint plans 24-30 books a year, with the first titles due in fall 2027.
• Reservoir sues Suno and Anthropic over AI music trainingLegal — The indie publisher's attorney says Suno let users generate songs for $10 a month off "illicit copies" of catalog including Madonna and Johnny Cash.

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