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Ex-PRH CEO Madeline McIntosh Dives Into AI
The former Penguin Random House CEO joined a panel hosted by the Frankfurt Book Fair discussing artificial intelligence, asserting that AI could help combat piracy and assist with contracts, scouting, marketing, translations, and audiobook production.
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OpenAI Debuts GPT-4
The company behind GPT-3 and ChatGPT has released its latest upgrade of the generative AI tool as concerns over AI text generation proliferate in the book world.
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Digital Book World: Startups Are Entering 'A New Age'
DBW's final day looked at a recent study of publishing industry startups and found that innovation takes all forms, from wildly successful ideas that took time to take off, like Audible, to cutting edge innovations, like blockchain book retailing.
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Digital Book World 2023: The Future of AI Writing and Audio
According to multiple presenters at the Digital Book World conference, ChatGPT has potential to remake the way people write and streamline production and editing, while AI voice replication promises affordable audiobook adaptations.
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New App Aims to Improve Book Discovery
Tertulia, a free book discovery app, includes a purchasing and shipping option, and has a catalog of about 15 million titles.
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Medium Acquires Digital Reading Platform Glose
Digital publishing platform Medium has acquired Glose, a digital reading platform and e-book and audiobook retailer, based in Paris. Glose offers social media tools inside the platform's reading experience.
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Radish Fiction App Secures $63.2M in New Funding
Radish, a mobile reading app launched in 2016 that offers short serialized fiction supported by a micropayment platform, has secured $63.2 million in new series A funding.
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NetGalley Expands to Audio, Launches New App
NetGalley has announced a new audiobooks arm along with a new app, NetGalley Shelf, making audiobooks available on the service for the first time and bringing the platform to its users' smartphones.
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A Shout-Out to Tech from the Book Biz
Bill Kasdorf wants to thank the tech industry for helping publishing get through the pandemic.
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For Editorial Tools, the Interface Is the Thing
To improve the efficiency of digital tools, technologists and users need to collaborate, writes Bill Trippe.
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