Canada will not issue ISBNs for primarily AI-generated books
Library and Archives Canada now makes authors declare a human wrote the book. Grammar and formatting help is allowed. Generated text, art, or translation is not.
International
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SPS looks at the Italian market after Indieverse Milan
English-language indies are being told there is room in Italy — if they treat it as a market, not a translation experiment.
Kobo returns to Best Buy; ALLi reports Amazon destroying books for AI training
A retail foothold for Kobo in US big-box, and a grim rights story about physical copies being pulped to feed models.