Google opens purchased Play Books inside Gemini Notebook
Expert Intelligence lets a reader query a title they already bought. The launch catalogue is licensed trad-publisher stock, not the open KDP backlist.
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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.
Written Word Media: half of surveyed authors still expect to grow
The mid-year sample of nearly 600 authors is not a census, but it cuts against forum fatalism — and says exclusive-versus-wide did not separate the optimistic group.