The Anthropic Settlement: A Pyrrhic Victory That May Have Backfired on Authors
Anthropic was not willing to gamble. And equally, nor was the Luddite Defence. Both sides opted to play safe, and the industry will live with the consequences.
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Tag: AI in publishing
Reimagining Book Publishing in the AI Era: From Resistance to Renaissance
An exploration of how the book publishing industry might embrace AI-driven transformation as an opportunity for renewal and growth
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AI as Creative Partner: What Publishing Can Learn from Gaming’s Embrace of Innovation
Discover how publishing can thrive by embracing AI as a creative partner, learning from the Turkish gaming industry’s innovative and collaborative approach.
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Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic in the News, but the Existential Threat Looming Over Publishing is the Trump Executive Order
Be careful what we wish for. The possibility of an executive order granting broad exemptions to AI companies from copyright claims poses an existential threat to the publishing industries as they currently operate.
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Consumers Prefer AI-Generated Images To The Real Thing: Implications for the Publishing Industry
To those on the Luddite Fringe, you have my sympathies. Keep standing on the beach, watching the tide come in all around you. King Canute would be proud!
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AI: A Powerful Tool for Uncovering Ancient Texts (When It’s Not Stealing Our Souls and Devouring Our Children)
For fiction writers, this opens up huge new areas of fictional speculation and storytelling, and savvy authors will be wanting to know more and do more, not hide behind the Luddite Fringe’s efforts to keep publishing in twentieth century chains.
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From Hefty Print Volumes to Full-On AI: The Evolution of Encyclopaedia Britannica and Its Lessons for Publishing
Ignore the Luddite Fringe. Embracing technological innovation, particularly AI, is not just an opportunity but a necessity in meeting the changing demands of learners, educators and trade consumers in the 21st century.
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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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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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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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