AGP Executive Report
Last update: an hour agoAudiobook Discovery: AudiobookRush launched “Narrator Picks,” a new video series where audiobook narrators recommend standout titles they didn’t produce, aiming to mimic indie bookstore staff picks with human taste. AI & Publishing Liability: A Munich court ordered Google to stop serving an AI Overview that wrongly linked a publisher to scams, raising the stakes for how generative search features can be held responsible for what they generate. Model Price War: Anthropic unveiled Claude Opus 5.5 with steep discounts and performance claims, while OpenAI immediately undercut pricing—another reminder that AI costs (and competition) are moving fast. Rights & Valuation Tech: ValuePunks expanded its catalogue valuation platform into music publishing, using live consumption data to price composition income streams. Ukraine Books Under Fire: Reports highlight how Russian strikes are destroying Ukraine’s publishing infrastructure, threatening the country’s literary future. Local News Ecosystems: Puerto Rico’s legacy newspapers are moving digital-only as the industry sheds jobs, underscoring ongoing pressure on print.
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