Tag: AI publishing
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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Wiley to pocket $44 million this year from AI deals but rightly says no to author opt-outs
Just who do authors think is in charge here? Traditionally, publishers do not give authors control over where their books are sold or in what format, or what else the publisher might do to maximise revenues. If we authors don’t like that, we can self-publish.
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Ghana prepares to embrace AI in publishing while western Luddites fight to hold back the industry
Much of the world has simply skipped the entire landline/PC/dialup era and almost overnight gone straight from never dreaming of owning a phone and never having seen a computer, to having a 5G smartphone in their hands.
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OpenAI’s admission it needs copyright material is a gift to the publishing industry
The opponents of AI are missing opportunities to do deals that will favour creatives, for the sake of a sound-tough soundbite.
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SAG-AFTRA and the US Writers Guild are ready to deal with AI companies. It’s time the publishing industry followed suit. The dam has broken
The dam has broken. Now to contain the floods and redirect the life-giving water to new pastures....
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Everyone in the publishing industry should be watching CES this month. Because AI is not about us. We’re just a sideshow
How many of us today are doing our job in the same way it was done late last century? More...
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OpenAI responds to New York Times law suit
This is going to be a big disappointment for the Luddite camp hoping the NYT lawsuit against...
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Gen Z vs Generation One Foot In The Grave. AI dominates the annual “predictions” rounds
“Not only does AI liberate time, it also replaces an old equation—that wisdom flows from...
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Authors demand Spotify tell them the deal details their publishers are keeping quiet about
What Spotify and others did was to expand the (music) market beyond the wildest dreams of music artists and publishers.
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Business as usual is not an option
The publishing industry can no more put the AI genie back in the bottle than it could the paperback genie, the word-processor genie, the email submissions genie, the social media genie, the self-publishing genie, the subscription genie and the genies for every other industry development that has been fought tooth and nail while screaming The Sky Is Falling, before slow but inevitable acceptance and even slower embrace.
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Apple is in talks with publishers to use their content to train GenAI models
Apple has been slow to jump on the AI bandwagon in any meaningful way, which has given rivals a...
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Richard Charkin’s Mensch embraces the future of publishing, but it’s not every publisher’s future
Welcome to the future of publishing. Well, a future, anyway. The publishing multiverse is here....
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