Melina Spanoudi
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The careers education publisher Trotman Publishing will move to BookSource for distribution services, effective from June. The move follows the decision by Grantham Book Services (GBS) to stop operations for third-party clients by the end of the year. Trotman Publishing follows former GBS clients Bradt Guides and Heartwood Publishing to BookSource. All orders up to 30th May should be sent to GBS and to BookSource starting from 1st June.
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The Hereford Military History Festival, held from 26th to 28th September 2025, has announced the first five events in its autumn lineup, which features Sir Antony Beevor, Ben Macintyre, Daniel Finkelstein and Nicholas Soames, among others. Launching this year, the festival – sponsored by allpay – will include talks, panel discussions, school events, history trails and performance events exploring global military history.
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You are viewing your 1 free article this month. Login to read more articles. News Picador’s publishing director, Georgina Morley, known as George, is set to retire in August after 31 years at Pan Macmillan. Morley started her career in publishing at Thames & Hudson in 1983, moving to Penguin in 1984, and then to Bantam Press as commissioning editor.
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You are viewing your 1 free article this month. Login to read more articles. News Sarah O’Hara has been promoted to editor at Orion Fiction. Alongside publisher Emad Akhtar, O’Hara works across some of Orion Fiction’s prominent authors, including Jessa Hastings, Chris Whitaker, Quentin Tarantino, Ben Aaronovitch, Michael Connelly and Ian Rankin. She is also building a list of her own, which includes author Katherine Center and crime authors Chris Lloyd and RJ Ellory.
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Price is closely following the Getty Images case against Stability AI over the company’s alleged use of copyrighted images, which will go to trial in June 2025. The claimants have alleged that the content produced by the company’s AI model, Stable Diffusion, reproduced parts of the images that were used during the training to a significant extent.
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