PW Digital Marketplace
Check out the PW Digital Marketplace, a sponsored listing of digital vendors and their services related to the book business.
Featured Vendor: MagicBox
MagicBox, an award-winning digital publishing platform, serves four million users globally. A SaaS-based, cloud-hosted mobile distribution platform, MagicBox enables publishers and content providers to create, enrich, and deliver their digital content through custom branded web and mobile apps. Learn more about MagicBox Platform.and more.
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RetailingSupadu Extends D2C Reach with De Marque Partnership
The U.K.-based e-commerce platform has teamed with Canadian distributor De Marque to extend its international digital distribution and add instant e-book reading to its direct-to-consumer services, the latest of several deals in the D2C space.
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Content / e-books
Pagebound Bets on Human Curation Over Algorithms
The social reading platform aims to offer an alternative to Goodreads, where users can track their progress, complete “quests,” and share book recommendations. It has attracted 130,000 users who have created 25,000 forums.
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Content / e-books
Audible Now Lets You Read Along with Your Kindle Books
Audible has added its new Read & Listen feature, which allows users to follow audiobook narration with synchronized, word-by-word highlighted text, provided they own the Kindle e-book.
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Copyright
U.K. Indie Publishers Take Stand Against AI Companies
Members of the U.K.’s Independent Publishers Guild have threatened legal action against AI companies over alleged copyright infringement, in what IPG chief executive Bridget Shine called the first step in “a long and arduous battle.”
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Content / e-books
Cashmere.io Wants Better AI Licensing Deals for Publishers
The little-known startup, which powers publishing deals with AI firm Perplexity, aims to help publishers monitor, monetize, and control their content inside AI systems. CEO Jonathan Munk says the industry’s current approach just isn’t cutting it.
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Content / e-books
Microsoft, Amazon Plan AI Content Marketplaces
Amazon joins Microsoft, which recently launched Publisher Content Marketplace, in developing platforms to allow publishers to license content and be paid-per-use, rather than by offering an blanket, up-front fee.
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Content / e-books
ElevenLabs, Valued at $11 Billion, ‘Doubles Down’ on Audiobooks
The AI-voice company has consolidated its audiobook production services under the new brand Audiobooks in ElevenCreative, signaling its commitment to the sector, head of growth Madeline Shue told PW.
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Copyright
Publishers Strike Back Against Google in Infringement Suit
In a new filing, the Association of American Publishers rebuts Google’s efforts to prevent two publishers, Hachette Book Group and Cengage, from joining a class action copyright suit first brought by writers and illustrators in 2023.
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Copyright
U.K. Creative Industries Call for an AI Regulatory Framework
In a new report on the harm done to creative professionals by generative AI development, the Society of Authors and other trade associations are demanding new regulations to compel tech giants to respect copyright and remunerate authors and artists.
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Content / e-books
IPG Teams with Beat Technology for D2C E-books, Audiobooks
Distribution affiliates of Independent Publishers Group will now be able to sell e-books and audiobooks directly to readers through the Norway-based white-label app provider’s first U.S. platform, Shelf.
