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Welcome to 2026. There was plenty of news over the past two weeks, and as promised we were covering live at our site and through a couple of catch-up newsletters. In case you missed them, here’s a quick review: January Picks Amazon Has Constrained “Ask This Book,” Though Authors Guild Believes It’s An Infringing Derivative Use Speculating on Barnes & Noble’s Sales “Public Domain Day” Features Faulkner, Nancy Drew and More Audible Tests In-App Promo Videos 2025: The Year In Stories Anthropic settlement: Before retiring, Judge Alsup lambasted the proposed fees for additional attorneys Meet the New Judge in the …
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Journalist Tom Molanphy's THE FORGOTTEN ACTIVIST: MARIE HARRISON'S FIGHT AGAINST IMPLOSIONS AND INJUSTICE IN SAN FRANCISCO, the story of environmental activist Marie Harrison (1948-2019) of San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point and her three major battles: saving her home of Geneva Towers from implosion; advocating for the removal of polluting PG&E stacks; and protecting her community from contamination from one of the country's worst superfund … read more
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