Hello and welcome back to Books on the Brain. On this week's episode, we are back with our Book Report's bringing two stories to you! Danielle's delivers the story that still haunts a lot of the book community, the history being Kathleen Hale, the author who became a stalker to one of her reviewers. Deirdre brings us some newer news on Apple's newest foray into AI narrated audiobooks. 

Sources:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/scaachikoul/kathleen-hale-goodreads-catfish-crazy-stalker

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelkramerbussel/2019/01/09/kathleen-hale-is-a-crazy-stalker-grove-press/amp/

https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/18/am-i-being-catfished-an-author-confronts-her-number-one-online-critic

https://www.bookbrowse.com/news/detail/index.cfm/news_item_number/3020/news/filippo-bernardini-italian-admits-stealing-unpublished-books

https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/04/apple-artificial-intelligence-ai-audiobooks

https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/05/apple-launches-ai-powered-book-narrations/

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/5/23540261/apple-text-to-speech-audiobooks-ebooks-artificial-intelligence-narrator-madison-jackson

https://authors.apple.com

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/audio-books/article/89547-audiobook-growth-continues.html

https://play.google.com/books/publish/autonarrated/#scroll-at-narration

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