by Tina | Apr 11, 2025 | Latest News, TRS Blog
Spotify Pledges €1 Million to Boost French and Dutch Audiobook Production—Human and AI Voices Alike Spotify is turning up the volume on non-English storytelling. This week, the streaming giant announced a €1 million investment to support audiobook production in French...
by Tina | Apr 11, 2025 | Latest News, TRS Blog
New Tariffs Could Raise Book Prices and Undercut U.S. Publishers Abroad Updated 4/11/25 On Wednesday, Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on most of the administration’s new tariffs, while simultaneously increasing tariffs on goods from China. In response, China has...
by Tina | Apr 8, 2025 | Latest News, TRS Blog
Abrams Books Employees Take Steps to Unionize for Fair Pay and Transparency Employees at acclaimed independent publisher Abrams Books are writing a new chapter—this time, for their own future. Staff across departments have officially taken the first step to unionize,...
by Tina | Apr 7, 2025 | Latest News, TRS Blog
Whispers of Resistance Inside Ukraine’s Secret Book Clubs Defying Russia’s War on Identity In a quiet flat somewhere in occupied Ukraine, a group of teenagers meets in secret according to The Guardian. There are no snacks, no name tags, no Instagram posts about the...
by Tina | Apr 4, 2025 | Latest News, TRS Blog
No Soul, No Rights: U.S. Copyright Office Reaffirms That Only Human Creativity Is Protected by Law In a digital age increasingly dominated by artificial intelligence, the U.S. Copyright Office has drawn a firm line in the sand: copyright is for humans—full stop. In...
by Tina | Apr 3, 2025 | Latest News, TRS Blog
How to Disable Microsoft Copilot—and Why Authors Should Seriously Consider It Microsoft’s new AI assistant, Copilot, is being rolled out across Windows 11, Microsoft 365, and Edge—offering everything from automated writing help to summarizing documents and...
