AGP Executive Report
Last update: an hour agoSonia Gandhi memoir row: Congress leaders escalated their fight with Penguin Random House India over Belonging: A Journey of Love, alleging pressure to remove references to Modi, the RSS, and China-related border claims—while Penguin India insists it isn’t the publisher in India and denies backing out over editorial demands. Publishing under fire: Russian strikes hit warehouses storing Ukrainian publishers’ books, with Readeat and Vivat among those reporting major losses and disrupted supply chains. AI and books: UK second-hand shops are reportedly being targeted by tech firms for “destructive scanning,” raising fresh alarms about books being stripped for AI training and then destroyed. New releases to watch: Taschen announced a two-volume Lucas Museum of Narrative Art tied to the museum’s Sept. 22 opening, plus Faber’s Ghost Month and Granta’s snow-leopard advocacy The Ghost of the Mountains. Literary spotlight: Alka Saraogi’s Register Me as Kulbhushan review highlights identity and Partition-era survival, while Luke Harding’s Betrayal returns to the politics of war and media.
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