Coral Wire — Sat, Oct 24 2026
The Coral Index closed at 43/100 — Headwinds. 20 graded stories fed that reading.
Catapult Book Group sold, operations end October 30Market · Breaking — Sixteen spring 2027 titles across Catapult's four imprints have no confirmed publisher now that the sale is set.
Pangram's plagiarism checker flags a pirated manuscript on NotabilityWire — The flagged copy was a full pirated manuscript hosted on Notability, an app meant for private note-taking and annotation.
Amazon lets AI audiobooks join Kindle+ free and automaticallyPlatform — Narrator-read audiobooks face more conditions to join, and royalty-share deals common among indie authors can't join yet
Air Mail's Wolfe Prizes pay two debut authors $10,000 eachMarket — Sarah Anderson and Carlos Barragan won the second annual Tom Wolfe Literary Prizes for satire and long-form reportage, Publishers Weekly reported.
PRH lands Messi animated series as publishing partnerMarket — The fall 2027 U.S. launch list runs three titles: a rules guide, a sticker-activity book, and a coloring book
Audible lets listeners talk to Dracula as copyright fees loomCommunity — ALLi's Dan Holloway also reports plaintiffs have dropped a key market dilution study from an OpenAI copyright case.
Bloomsbury profit falls 30% as it bets big on MaasMarket — The publisher is counting on two new Sarah J. Maas titles this fiscal year to drive the record results it's still forecasting.
Anthropic lyrics case goes to judge with no ruling yetLegal — Judge Eumi K. Lee heard cross-motions on 499 songs for hours on October 21 and took the case under submission without saying which way she leans