Aug 17, 2026 · 2 hr 3 min · 15 segments
Plus, new numbers in the industry, workbots to help with author work and a spicy zeitgeist take on how media is destroying women.
Thomas UmstattdHost
Jonathan ShuergerHost
Welcome to Author Update, your source of publishing news that actually matters to your career and cultural zeitgeist analysis you can't find anywhere else and that might make you a little angry.
This week, Barnes & Noble dropped a corporate memo that ends the easy front table book signing.
Can you meet the new standard? A copyright lawsuit stretched four years and finished with a $3.4 million fee against the plaintiff.
Plod is now stamping an invisible watermark on every text you paste in and it travels with every copy paste.
X released the actual production weights behind its ranking algorithm and one link share will beat 40 likes.
Read the full transcript.
Create an account to read the whole episode, search across every transcript, and follow the shows you care about.
