Coral Wire — Sat, Nov 14 2026
The Coral Index closed at 69/100 — Tailwinds building. 20 graded stories fed that reading.
Anthropic settlement portal to show November 2 submissionsLegal — Court documents say the portal updates November 13 to reflect all submissions received on or before November 2, including works set for the first distribution.
Amazon Ads swaps page-read royalty estimate for borrow-based figurePlatform — A Support Center update removes estimated KENP royalties from Amazon Ads reporting and replaces them with royalties estimated for qualified borrows, with no page threshold stated.
Book pirates pose as photographers on ZillowLegal — Fake real estate profiles list SEO-stuffed book titles instead of names, linking to filesharing sites to download ebooks.
Guardian podcast examines rise of fake film deals and agent scamsLegal — The Audio Long Read, based on reporting in The Dial, looks at who targets aspiring authors with bogus book deal offers.
Tamil Nadu pulls 70,674 library books in fake-publisher probeLegal — A Madras High Court order triggered a DVAC probe and statewide audit after researchers found fabricated authors and mismatched ISBNs tied to two untraceable publishers.
Publishing Scotland sets January 22 deadline for translation grantsMarket — Round two of the 2026-27 fund covers all genres and is open to publishers based outside the U.K.
Lakeside Book and Open Road strike distribution and marketing dealMarket — Open Road will move its print distribution to Lakeside Book, with the cutover from current distributor IPG scheduled for Summer 2027.
OpenAI loses bid to dismiss Canadian publishers' copyright suitLegal — The Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed OpenAI's jurisdictional challenge, letting the case proceed in that province.