AGP Executive Report
Last update: 9 hours agoAI & Publishing: Secondhand booksellers across Europe (including Spain) report a surge in large, unexplained orders for old and obscure titles, with patterns that raise suspicions that AI firms are buying physical books for training. Film & Literature (Spain): Good Films Studios Spain is bringing Geraldine Brooks’ novel People of the Book to the TIFF market, with filming wrapped in Valencia (Ciudad de la Luz) and in Italy; the story follows a sacred artifact across centuries, from Inquisition-era Spain to Nazi-occupied Bosnia and a modern Iraqi refugee escape. Literary History: On 17 August 1945, George Orwell’s Animal Farm is published—an anniversary piece revisits Orwell’s wartime context and Spanish Civil War background. Culture & Books: A Spanish writer and anthropologist’s book, He jugado con lobos, is spotlighted as the “wolf boy of Sierra Morena” story returns after Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja’s death at 80. Health & Research: A study reviews prognostic markers in nivolumab-treated pleural mesothelioma, underscoring the need for better biomarkers.
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