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Confronting Publishing’s AI Fears
What lies beyond the lawsuits and accusations in the headlines?
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Everand Publishes Original Essays Curated by Roxane Gay
Everand Originals, formerly known as Scribd Originals, has released the first in a series of essays edited by Roxane Gay, ‘Built for This’ by Julia Turshen, and will follow it up in the coming months with works by Gabrielle Bellot, Elaine Castillo, and Randa Jarrar.
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Audible Cuts 5% of Its Staff
Despite a strong 2023, Audible CEO Bob Carrigan said the cuts were necessary to position the company "for continued success in the coming year and into the future, given the increasingly challenging landscape we face."
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How Publishers Can Navigate the AI Revolution
Despite the hype, publishing is still looking at what impact large language models and similar technology may bring.
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Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing Will Limit Daily Number of New Titles
In what Amazon says is another effort to guard against possible abuse of AI in the creation of books, KDP users will be allowed to post no more than three books daily on the self-publishing platform.
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Amazon Issues New AI Guidelines for Its KDP Platform
With concerns mounting over the impact AI-generated books are having on the e-book market, Amazon will now require KDP users to inform it if AI-generated content was used in the making of a book published on the platform.
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Generative AI Technology Can Support Book Publishing
From personal productivity to scalable applications, generative AI technology has plenty to offer publishing if used correctly.
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Digital Solutions in India 2023: All Our Coverage
Embracing changes, challenges, and chaos to serve the ever-evolving publishing marketplace is par for the course for digital solutions vendors in India.
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The Preprint Workflow Revolution
There has been a revolution in how scientific discoveries are being reported. More and more scientists and researchers are now uploading early drafts of their research papers to online repositories called preprint servers.
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Packagers Can Do That? Publisher Solutions That Check Many Boxes
When prospective clients come to Westchester Publishing Services seeking solutions to several of their workflow challenges, many are pleasantly surprised to learn about the spectrum of services that are available to ease the multitude of tasks they have been accustomed to managing in-house.
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Faster Growth at Westchester Publishing Services
At Westchester, there has been a significant increase in demand for editorial, production, and digital services across all publishing sectors.
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MPS Limited Is Gearing Up to Supercharge Scale
Revenues at MPS exceeded $60 million in its recent fiscal year, and this success, says chairman and CEO Rahul Arora, is due to the company’s comprehensive “Going Gestalt” growth strategy.
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Lapiz Digital Continues Doing What It Does Best
“Fairly traditional” is how head of operations Meena Prakash describes Lapiz Digital’s service offerings.
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Technologies, Tools, and Tweaks in the Digital Solutions Industry
Vendors in India are embracing changes, challenges, and chaos to serve the ever-evolving publishing marketplace.
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The Updated EPUB Is a Brilliant Balancing Act
Now a formal W3C standard, the latest EPUB format has moved slowly and didn’t break things.
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Project MUSE Adds Books from 75 Latin American Publishers
With demand for Spanish-language content doubling since 2020, Project MUSE has partnered with EULAC to add titles from 55 Colombian university presses and another 20 from other houses across Latin America and Spain.
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AI Is About to Turn Book Publishing Upside-Down
The latest generation of AI is a game changer, Thad McIlroy writes. And the change won't be incremental, but scary fast. If he's right, then the trade book publishing industry as we know it will soon be obsolete.
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Book.io Releases 'Brave New World' as an NFT E-book on the Algorand Blockchain
Book.io and the Algorand Foundation will create 10,000e-book NFTs of Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World,' each with 500 AI-designed covers of varying rarity.
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Educational Publishers Adapt to a Print Death Spiral
Higher education publishers are finding new models to meet the demands of a changed educational landscape, writes Ken Brooks.
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The Effort to Help Publishers Fight Disinformation Is Underway
What content can you trust in an era of generative AI, deepfakes, fake news, and other counterfeits? Bill Kasdorf highlights three new organizations developing “certificates of authenticity” for media assets.