News of note for readers: January 3, 2024

Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each story. Your choice!

• KM Peyton, a prolific children's author known for the Flambards series, has died at the age of ninety-four (The Guardian).

• Goodreads members are most excited about these sixty-three books coming out in 2024 (Book Riot).

• There's a Taylor Swift Little Golden Book, and it's the series’ biggest seller of all time (Simplemost).

• Apple is reportedly talking with news publishers about paying to use their content to train its artificial-intelligence tools (Business Today).