USA – Authors Guild Federal Court Victory: Arkansas Book Ban Declared...
“When we allow broad restrictions like Act 372, we don’t just silence authors – we deny readers, particularly young people, the opportunity to see themselves and understand others through literature”...
View ArticleThe Guardian is at it again. No, writers do not need financial support. This...
Writers don’t need victim support and government handouts as The Guardian seems to think. They need positive thinking and a willingness to adapt. Success is earned, not handed out. If the day ends in...
View ArticleMultinational Acquisitions of Indie Presses: Implications for Australian...
Press-release news is an important part of the publishing industry media’s role, but especially where the big corporate publishers are concerned, the industry media needs to occasionally take a step...
View ArticleAI: A Powerful Tool for Uncovering Ancient Texts (When It’s Not Stealing Our...
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...
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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,...
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The 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...
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Human: 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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Two Roads Diverged in the AI Woods: American Pragmatism vs. British Bluster
So the AAP presented the court with a series of existing (AI publishing) deals – over 65 examples, collectively valued at $2.5 billion, with projections soaring to $30 billion over the next decade. In...
View ArticleWhat is “western publishing”, anyway?
Trade fiction, academic works, comics, audiobooks and digital serials are all being reimagined- from Tokyo’s manga cafés to Dubai’s audiobook studios. And all too often it is the “west” that is...
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Amazon is an AI Tech Company. Why Does it Get a Free Pass from the UK’s...
Amazon now has nailed its publishing industry AI colours to the mast. We cannot have one rule for Amazon and another for every other AI company. Contrast these statements on AI: “We will be hand...
View ArticleThe Enduring Appeal of Murder Mysteries: Neuroscience, Female Sleuths, and...
A 2012 study found mystery readers scored higher in empathy and analytical thinking, suggesting long-term cognitive benefits. The news that the BBC has reincarnated Agatha Christie as a writing...
View ArticleAI and the Workforce: Implications for Publishing from PwC’s 2025 Global AI...
Bad news for the Luddite Fringe. The latest PwC report is bad news for the Luddite Fringe. AI Drives Productivity and Revenue Industries most able to use AI have seen revenue generated per employee...
View ArticleThe Mattel-OpenAI Partnership: A Wake-Up Call for Trade Publishing
“Publishers must ask themselves: do they want to lead this transformation or be left behind by it just to keep the yapping dogs of the Luddite Fringe at bay?” The Strategic Alliance That Changes...
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