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News Summary: Librarians Propose Fairer E-book Pricing Model; Commonwealth Prize Verifies Winners without AI Detectors

Following on from recent discussion in this column about what it costs libraries to buy the license for e-books, thanks to Jane Friedman for linking to this fascinating article which outlines exactly what libraries would like to see in this regard. What it attempts to describe is what librarians actually mean when they call for fairer pricing from big publishers.
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https://selfpublishingadvice.org/librarians-propose-fairer-e-book-pricing-model/

#AIallegations #AIdetection #CommonwealthShortStoryPrize #fairlicensing #Granta

"Granta stops publishing short story award winners over AI controversy."

#books #Granta

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/20/granta-magazine-commonwealth-short-story-prize-ai?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Granta stops publishing short story award winners over AI controversy https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/20/granta-magazine-commonwealth-short-story-prize-ai #Granta #Magazines #ShortStories #Books #Culture #AwardsAndPrizes #Fiction #AiArtificialIntelligence #Technology

News Summary: Commonwealth Short Story Prize Winner Accused of Using AI; Judges Face Impossible Dilemma

This week I feel we reached the peak "oh good grief, what now?" moment of the AI scandal hypercycle. And to be honest, I am genuinely not sure whether the whole thing feels more Woodward and Bernstein or Arthur Miller. In short, this week we saw serious shade cast on the Commonwealth Short Story Prize winner Jamir Nazir. Nazir's story, "The Serpent in the Grove," was straightaway called out by several highly qualified people for being AI-generated.
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https://selfpublishingadvice.org/commonwealth-short-story-prize-winner-accused-of-using-ai/

#AIdetection #AItells #AIgeneratedwriting #CommonwealthShortStoryPrize #Granta

the writer's barely-disguised fetish #granta

Granta publishes a story likely authored by AI and shrugs.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/19/commonwealth-short-story-prize-winner-doubts-ai-artificial-intelligence

#granta #grantamagazine #ai #literature

The Written Word Is Having A Rough Week

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://defector.com/the-written-word-is-having-a-rough-week

🤡 Ah, the pinnacle of #literary masterpieces: a deep dive into the world of... #slime. 🧽 The publisher #Granta must have consulted a top-tier focus group of 5-year-olds to decide on this gripping subject matter. 📚 Because who wouldn't want to read about gooey blobs instead of, you know, something interesting? 🙄
https://granta.com/slime/ #literature #publishing #absurdity #critiques #viral #trends #HackerNews #ngated

🎭 Behold the epic tale of V.S. Naipaul's misery and triumph, narrated with all the subtlety of a toddler's finger painting. Granta's latest masterpiece will have you questioning if the glory or the grief was surviving the article. 🔍 Boldly sifting through clichés, leaving no literary stone unturned, except the ones they forgot to check. 📚✨
https://granta.com/vs-naipaul-the-grief-and-the-glory/ #VNaipaul #Granta #LiteraryCritique #BookReview #TriumphAndMisery #HackerNews #ngated

V.S. Naipaul: The Grief and the Glory

https://granta.com/vs-naipaul-the-grief-and-the-glory/

#HackerNews #V.S. #Naipaul #Literature #Grief #Glory #AuthorInsights #Granta

🔥📖 "Burning Mao," or how to use overstuffed literary fluff to justify charging people for what could've been a tweet. #Granta juggles topics like a circus clown on a caffeine high, yet somehow still manages to put everyone to sleep. 🎪😴
https://granta.com/burning-mao/ #BurningMao #LiteraryFluff #Review #CircusClown #OverstuffedContent #HackerNews #ngated

Burning Mao

https://granta.com/burning-mao/

#HackerNews #BurningMao #Granta #Politics #History #China #CulturalCritique #SocialCommentary

Literair tijdschrift Granta heeft een nieuw China-nummer, en deze maand zijn een heleboel verhalen en poëzie gratis te lezen, zonder abonnement. Oa Zhang Yueran, Yu Hua, Shuang Xuetao en veel meer.
#China #literatuur #poëzie #Granta
https://granta.com/products/granta-169-china/

I became interested in #ChineseLiterature some time ago, but up till now I’ve only read some classics and Chinese speculative fiction & fantasy, so I found this #podcast on contemporary Chinese #literaryFiction interesting & helpful to get an idea about the field. There‘s some free to read short stories on the #Granta website: https://granta.com/products/granta-169-china/ .
#literature #china #shortstories #reading #bookstodon https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/sinica-podcast/id1121407665?i=1000676963552

Granta publishes its Best British Young Novelists list https://bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65256575

Each decade this list highlights interesting new talent; past lists included Pat Barker, Salman Rushdie & Iain Banks to name but three. I was lucky enough to chair an author from the 2013 list at the Edinburgh Book Fest, it's a great boost to writer's profiles

#books #livres #Granta #BestYoungBritishNovelists

Wow. Just. Wow. Biography or novel or autobiography? Dystopian political allegory? Artistic treatise? All these things in a compulsively readable book with a gasp inducing climax. #BiographyOfX #CatherineLacey #Granta @bookstodon

GRANTA: In Conversation
Pico Iyer & Caryl Phillips

‘The immigrant’s dream – that he or she can make a better life for the children – becomes a kind of tragedy when it comes true.’

Pico Iyer and Caryl Phillips discuss migration, V. S. Naipaul and the meaning of home.

#GRANTA #PicoIyer #CarylPhillips #Literature #Poetry #Art #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #English #VSNaipaul #Humanities #Immigrants #Magazines #Books

https://granta.com/in-conversation-pico-iyer-caryl-phillips/?fbclid=IwAR3K3EJEoYcQ6BwNGrVgtjjD4Mofs16A4CpAjZiCdP1ZgUr1czIebIT8RWE

Just read Taiye Selasi's story Betwixt and Betwin in #Granta. Beautiful work. https://granta.com/taiye-selasi-betwixt-and-betwin/ #Writing #Writer #Twins #Love #Motherhood #Sisters