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The number of books published in 2025 hit an all-time high at four million, largely owing to an explosion of self-published titles—though traditional publishers also upped their output last year. IDW is expanding its genre comics offerings with a new crime-focused imprint launching in May. And Barnes & Noble is beefing up its services for libraries as companies continue to jockey for position in the post–Baker & Taylor library distribution landscape. In other news, Utah has banned yet another book from public schools statewide, bringing the total to 28 titles, per the Salt Lake Tribune. In the U.K., Pan Macmillan nonfiction publisher Mike Harpley spoke out about author Sarah Wynn-Williams’s ongoing legal battle with Meta over her 2025 memoir Careless People, published in the U.S. by Flatiron. The San Francisco Standard talked with author and Wired cofounder Kevin Kelly about his controversial suggestion that tech companies don’t owe authors compensation for using their books to train AI models. Smithsonian magazine traces the long history of literary typos. And British spy novelist Len Deighton has died at 97.