Publishing

Viewpoint: Why The Devil Wears Prada 2 will not be the cult fashion film that the first was

Anne Hathaway (left) and Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada 2.

Major publishers sue Meta for copyright infringement over AI training

The publishers alleged that Meta misused their books and journal articles to train its artificial intelligence model Llama.

France's Macron sympathises with authors who quit Bollore-owned publisher

French President Emmanuel Macron poses before a working lunch of bilateral talks with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer ahead of the multinational virtual summit at the Elysee Presidential Palace, in Paris, France, on April 17, 2026. Tom Nicholson/Pool via REUTERS

In Good Company

How Dow Jones thrives when news is seen as just another commodity

The Wall Street Journal publisher and Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour in an interview with the Straits Times on March 31.

News website Rice Media acquired by social media agency

Rice Media's office in Chinatown. It announced in a statement that it had been acquired by local social media content agency Hustle Studios.

Horror novel Shy Girl cancelled by publisher Hachette over suspected AI use

The cover of the self-published edition of Shy Girl by Mia Ballard.

SG Culture Pass can be used for 1,500 SingLit titles at 40 bookstores from March 1

From March 1, readers can use their $100 SG Culture Pass at 40 bookstores islandwide including independent bookstores like Book Bar, which stock over 350 approved titles.

Publishers in US seek to join lawsuit against Google over AI training

Google allegedly misused examples from publishers' textbooks to train its Gemini large language model.

New academic imprint ThinkNanyang aims to boost Chinese-language research, promote scholarly works

The first publication of ThinkNanyang, The Collected Works Of Lee Guan Kin (2025), is now available at leading bookstores and online.

Man Of The Hour: Wei Koh’s love letter to horology

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