Category: USA
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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Batten down the hatches: The implications of a Trump Presidency for the publishing industry
As Donald Trump prepares to take office once again, the publishing industry faces a unique set of challenges. With a compliant Department of Justice (DoJ) under his administration, the potential for increased scrutiny and influence over book publishing decisions is a significant concern.
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Paramount Posts $49M Streaming Profit Amid Subscriber Growth. Publishers using AI to develop content need to think subscription
With two Big 5 publishers now embracing AI for audio, and others ready to follow, a flood of new content will simultaneously offer consumers more choice at better prices while also competing for listening hours. Embracing subscription as an outlet for this new content is just common sense.
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Storytel US reports “a lot of tailwinds” from Spotify audiobooks move
Storytel US reports “a lot of tailwinds” from Spotify audiobooks move.
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No sign of Gordon Gekko at the 2024 Global 50 CEO (Simon & Schuster/KRR) Talk at Frankfurt
“Not opening the floodgates” (Richard Sarnoff, KKR) is a concession that AI content will flow regardless, and the right way forward is to learn to manage that flow, not try to dam it.
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Hollywood explores how AI is reshaping the future of entertainment. Trade publishers look the other way
“Much of the 14th China International Digital Publishing Expo – which had huge numbers of publishers and thinkers present – focused on AI. Not because it was an AI-Expo, but because China has simply got on and embraced the technology” – Nadim Sadek, Shimmr.
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Audible’s “first AI-powered search for audiobooks” fuel unfounded fears about the future of human narration
AI narration of audiobooks, while understandably initially perceived as a threat, can actually offer several benefits to human narrators, if they are willing to embrace the opportunity unfolding.
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Spotify helps HarperCollins bounce back after a challenging year. HC keeps quiet about AI
Given HarperCollins’ parent company News Corp is investing heavily in AI, we can therefore reasonably assume HarperCollins is going down that same route, but quietly.
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Spotify helps HarperCollins bounce back after a challenging year. HC keeps quiet about AI
Given HarperCollins’ parent company News Corp is investing heavily in AI, we can therefore reasonably assume HarperCollins is going down that same route, but quietly.
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Along Came A Spider-Manga – east meets west in a new comics collaboration
The Manga will be released simultaneously in English on Viz Media’s Viz Manga app starting August 13 (U.S. time) and in Japan by Shogakukan on August 14 (Japan time).
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Ingram’s 2000s version of AI bans Thad McIlroy book on 2020s AI in publishing
This twentieth-century sledge-hammer to crack a nut approach to policing its catalogue flies in the face of the company’s otherwise deserved image as being at the forefront of the publishing revolution.
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USA – Good news from the AAP that only gets better when the invisible trade is included
What we do know, by simply looking at the digital charts, is that APub shifts huge numbers of ebooks uncounted by the AAP, and we also know Amazon pays out serious money every month to self-publishers using its Kindle Unlimited ebook subscription service.
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