Publishing must learn to walk and chew AI gum at the same time
Trade bodies decry AI training while quietly cutting costs with it. A response to Javier Celaya’s growth-strategy challenge — and where it leads.
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Tag: AI and publishing
The Hand That Feeds: Publishing’s AI Hypocrisy Problem
Major publishers condemn AI as theft while deploying automation to cut narrator, translator, warehouse and operational jobs. TNPS examines the selective labour theory behind publishing’s AI moral framework.
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Shy Girl, Big Questions: What The Hachette-Ballard Affair Tells Us About Publishing’s Unpreparedness For The AI Age
Hachette has cancelled Mia Ballard’s contract for Shy Girl over alleged undeclared AI use. TNPS examines what the case reveals about acquisition failures, unreliable detection tools, and the contract gaps nobody has closed yet.
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TNPS 2025 Story of the Year Part 2: The Psychology of Creativity and Why Publishers Misunderstand It
How publishers misunderstand creativity—and why that matters for AI. Nadim Sadek’s psychological framework reveals publishing’s real competitive edge.
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AI and Publishing: Why the Industry Needs to Stop Playing the Victim Card
The publishing industry has never met a technological advancement it didn’t fear. AI is just...
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Beyond Fear: Why Publishing Must Embrace AI as a Tool, Not a Threat
Publishing must move beyond fear to engage thoughtfully with AI. It’s a tool, not a threat—and human choices, not technology, determine outcomes.
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The Publishing Industry’s Divergent Reactions to Amazon and AI Companies: A Study in Hypocrisy and Dependency
Joke of the Month: “The Trump-Vance FTC will never back down from taking on Big Tech” – US Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson.
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“I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work.” The robot rebellion is already well underway!
As AI further disrupts the creative industries, it will be those that upskill to stay ahead that will thrive, while those that take the lazy route AI offers will find they have nothing original to say and no unique voice to say it.
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Joint statement by Australian Creators shows the world how to sensibly deal with the AI challenge
“Generative AI represents an extraordinarily exciting time for artists as they continue to...
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As AI innovators line up against the AI Resistance at FutureBook, beware the future. It’s so much closer than we think
So let’s get this straight. You don’t own a quill or parchment. You haven’t got a typewriter....
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Amazon Q3 results are out. Nothing about publishing. But 33 mentions of AI that the industry needs to wake up to
As we clearly see in the Q3 report, Amazon understands and is going all out to exploit AI’s...
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Beware the future. It’s closer than you think. AI and Publishing
“Anyone who thinks AI won’t be able to write literature that’s as good as anything a human...
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