AGP Executive Report
Last update: 10 hours agoUNESCO & Florida Publishing: An Okefenokee Swamp “Wild & Natural” coffeetable book is being considered for a new print run after the ecosystem was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with the author taking names from interested readers to gauge demand. Local Book Retail: Leesburg’s new fiction-only shop, Likely Story, opened downtown and is already planning author signings and book fairs, plus trade-ins and sales across print, ebooks, and audiobooks. AI Copyright & Publishing: A major U.S. copyright fight is still reverberating in publishing after the $1.5B Anthropic AI settlement, with ongoing cases involving major publishers and platforms keeping pressure on how books are used to train models. Community & Workplace Culture: TalkingParents, a Florida-based co-parenting service, earned Florida Trend’s Best Companies To Work For nod for a third straight year. Civic Life for Readers: St. Pete Beach commissioners set a tentative property tax ceiling but asked for more resident input before deciding. Elections & Voter Talk: UNF students are weighing voter fraud claims and turnout as Florida’s primary approaches, with some voting for the first time.
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