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Content / e-booksAI 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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Retailing
Open Road Starts Imprint for Out-of-Print Books
Open Road Integrated Media has launched Re-Discovery Lit, a new imprint that will republish out-of-print and reverted books. The imprint is starting with about 200 titles.
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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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Spotify Launches Audiobook Sales in Canada
Swedish audio streaming company Spotify has expanded its English-language audiobook service to Canada, offering some 350,000 titles in English and French for purchase.
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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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Copyright
Coalition Forms to Battle Library E-book Bills
The American Booksellers Association, Authors Guild, Association of American Publishers, and more have launched the Protect the Creative Economy Coalition following the introduction of a host of new library e-book bills in several states this year.
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Bookshop.org to Take Over Sales for IndieBound.org
IndieBound.org, the ABA's consumer-facing online bookselling and marketing platform, will switch to using Bookshop.org links to handle sales and fulfillment beginning March 1.
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Content / e-books
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.
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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.
