Category: AI
Publishing Advisory – Publishers Weekly Special Edition on AI Startup Companies March 28
Recommended for all parties committed to moving our industry forward in the age of AI.
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Publishing Advisory: AI and Publishing: Building a Successful Strategy – webinar 22 January 2025
Recommended for those who think AI is going to steal their jobs. Adapt and thrive!
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Publishing Advisory: “Automate the Tedious, Amplify the Creative: Your AI Marketing Companion” – Online Workshop, 8 January
Learn how AI can enhance book marketing and support authors in our workshop. Join us on 8 January 2025 to discover AI tools for deeper reader connections and sustainable marketing.
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Squandered Opportunities – AI is not the publishing industry’s enemy. Rather, engaged with properly, it can be one of our greatest assets
We need to move forward in 2025, not try turn the clock back to 1995, and that means making and accepting compromises along the way, and at the same time being willing to experiment, innovate and seize new opportunities.
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Fantastic news (unless you’re an AI Luddite): Harvard Uni and 1 million public domain books for AI training
Harvard University has unveiled an extensive dataset of nearly one million public domain books, making it freely available for AI training purposes.”
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Not Everyone Who Opposes AI Is A Luddite, Sam Missingham. But Some Have Earned The Epithet
Luddites of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your brain cells. Oh, and the chance of thriving as the industry evolves.
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UK’s Society of Authors Shows Itself To Be Unfit For Purpose
The real risk is of UK authors being drowned out by the generic and derivative outputs of the Society of Authors, which is constantly behind the times when it comes to publishing.
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Adapt and Thrive: AI Translation is the Game-Changer’s Game-Changer
Imagine for one moment if, somehow, the Bertelsmann buy-out of Simon & Schuster had been successful and the ever-tuxedoed Count Dohle was still emerging from the grave each night to dictate PRH policy. There would have been no Spotify deal and no unprecedented surge in the fortunes of the audiobook industry.
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Perplexity AI expands its Publisher Programme. Lessons for Academic and Trade Book Publishing
The industry needs to take a step back from the knee-jerk “AI can never compete with human creativity” and the “AI will steal our jobs, destroy our culture and eat our children for breakfast” nonsense, and take a look at how AI can enhance human creativity and productivity.
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Beware the Future! It’s Already Here
“AI can never replace human creativity!” So why are you running about like a headless chicken because your job is at risk?
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Nigeria’s Copyright Commission chief urges publishers to “understand”, “value” and “own” AI
Dr. Asein believes AI will empower authors to become publishers and vice versa.
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Redundancies in UK Publishing: A Misleading Snapshot of 2024
Why is there so little analysis out there of what the Trump years may bring for our industry? Love him or loathe him, no-one is ever going to accuse Trump of being a booklover and a friend of the publishing industry.
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