India’s Bollywood Music Labels Jump On The ‘Let’s Sue The F*** Out Of OpenAI’...
With the right deal on the table, most publishers will jump into bed with any and every AI company that can meet their price. A coalition of India’s leading Bollywood music labels, including T-Series,...
View ArticleThe Guardian Partners With OpenAI While Simultaneously Fuelling The Luddite...
Memo to Microsoft – I’ve got some backlist titles and a struggling school where kids cannot imagine what £20 looks like, let alone £2,000, if you’d like to get in touch! The Guardian Media Group has...
View ArticleConsumers Prefer AI-Generated Images To The Real Thing: Implications for the...
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! In a significant development earlier this...
View ArticleUSA – Bowker and IndieCommerce Boost Independent Bookstore Digital Sales With...
Book2look has already generated over 250 million views, demonstrating its effectiveness. US publishing solutions provider Bowker has announced a strategic partnership with IndieCommerce, the...
View ArticleThe Publishing Industry’s Divergent Reactions to Amazon and AI Companies: A...
Joke of the Month: “The Trump-Vance FTC will never back down from taking on Big Tech” – US Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson. Set for a September 2025 trial, the FTC launched its law suit...
View ArticleTaylor & Francis To Use AI For Translation. Society of Authors Gets...
Needless to say the SoA was like a lamb with two tails as it gleefully revelled in the Meta piracy site news. On of the best AI stories this week is the news that Taylor and Francis is using AI to...
View ArticleHuman: Good. AI: Bad. Perception, Prejudice, and the Creative Landscape in...
AI-produced audio slammed for its low quality was actually created by humans. Luddite Fringe, look away now! The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has ushered in an era of...
View ArticleGor Blimey, Guv’nor! Google Gemini ‘as ownly gone’n train’d its AI on Mary...
Most AIs know their centre from their center and their colour from their color, although when will they grasp it’s uncivilised to say civilized! APRIL 1st UPDATE: When I first posted this on...
View ArticleAnime’s Global Ascent: Brazil Offers A Lesson for Publishers
Publishers need to re-evaluate the issue of piracy. If content was legally unavailable in Brazil then, ethics aside, publishers suffered no material loss by manga and anime being distributed, and...
View ArticleBound in Skin, Bound to History – The Macabre Legacy of Anthropodermic Books
Following his execution, Corder’s body was publicly dissected – a fate reserved for the most heinous criminals back then. (Don’t tell Donald Trump, or we may seen another Executive Order dashed off…)...
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