Agents withdraw Jerry Falade’s hotly anticipated debut after saying they can no longer authenticate ‘how the manuscript evolved’

A high-profile publishing deal for a debut crime novel has collapsed after doubts emerged over whether artificial intelligence played a role in writing it.

The hotly anticipated manuscript Call Me, I’ll Hide the Body, by Jerry Falade, was withdrawn from sale by its agent despite reportedly receiving an offer for more than $2m (£1.5m) from Minotaur, owned by Macmillan US, as part of a 14-way auction. The plan was to publish it in 2028.

On July 31, 2012, News Corp's "The Daily," the world's first iPad-only newspaper, axed almost a third of its staff of 170 employees.

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This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Antonia Seymour, who is chief executive of IOP Publishing.

Seymour has more than 30 years’ experience in a publishing industry that has evolved significantly from the days of paper journals to today’s sophisticated digital technologies.

In this interview we explore how scholarly publishers are responding to the rapid growth in research output, the rise of artificial intelligence and the increase in threats to research integrity.

A wholly owned subsidiary of the Institute of Physics, IOP Publishing produces more than 100 scholarly journals as well as Physics World.

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