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Financial ReportingWiley Wraps Up Divestiture Program, Looks at AI Opportunities
The company it has completed the sale of three companies and saw gains from recent AI partnerships in the first quarter of fiscal year 2025, with CEO Matthew Kissner promising that Wiley is prepared to "move decisively on AI opportunities."
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Publisher News
Authors Sue AI Firm Anthropic for Copyright Infringement
The complaint accuses Anthropic of using a dataset dubbed “the Pile,” which allegedly includes a trove of pirated works, to develop its Claude AI product.
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Publisher News
Audible Is Beta Testing AI-Powered Search
Audible.com has launched Maven, an AI-powered feature that allows users to search for audiobooks using natural language queries. The new tool is currently in beta and available to select U.S. customers.
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Content / e-books
Scribd and Everand Introduce AI-Powered Book Discovery
Digital content subscription service Scribd has announced the beta release of Ask AI, a new artificial intelligence tool designed to make it faster and easier to search for and find content across its Scribd and Everand platforms.
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Publisher News
U.S. Copyright Office Releases Part One of AI Report, Calls for New Legislation
From “AI-generated musical performances to robocall impersonations of political candidates to images in pornographic videos,” the report acknowledges that “a new era of sophisticated digital replicas has arrived.”
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Content / e-books
How an AI-Driven Publishing Model Enabled Thad McIlroy's New Book
The author, a contributing editor at 'PW' covering the intersection of technology and the book business, used AI to help him launch his new book, 'The AI Revolution in Book Publishing'—in 32 languages and six audiobook formats on the same day.
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Publisher News
Colin Kaepernick Launches AI-Based Self-Publishing Platform
The former NFL quarterback turned civil rights activist, who founded his own publishing company in 2020, has launched Lumi, an AI-based platform providing authors and other creatives with another alternative to traditional publishing.
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Content / e-books
LexisNexis Offers Nexis+ AI for Enhanced Corporate Research
Nexis+ AI, a new generative AI-powered platform from LexisNexis, seeks to balance technical innovation with respect for content creators' rights.
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Copyright
CCC Launches Collective Licensing for AI
Copyright Clearance Center has launched a collective licensing solution for the internal use of copyrighted materials in artificial intelligence systems, with the aim of providing streamlined, legal means to use content and compensate creators.
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Content / e-books
AI as Ally: Publishing Pros Explore Technology's Potential
At a LinkedIn Live panel titled "Beyond Publishing: When AI Is Your Ally," experts discussed the impact of AI on the publishing world, addressing how it can be implemented into the publishing workflow as well as efforts to help authors and publishers get paid by AI companies for the use of their work.
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Content / e-books
Book Business AI Showcase: Spines and Storywise
In the third of an ongoing series of articles spotlighting book business–related AI startups, we take a look at Spines, an AI-powered self-publishing platform, and Storywise, a tool to help publishers and agents manage manuscript submissions.
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Adult Previews
2 New Books Examine ChatGPT
How did ChatGPT get here? Where is it going? These new books offer some answers.
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Adult Previews
6 Books on AI in the Workplace
These forthcoming books discuss the future of the workplace amid AI’s ever-increasing reach.
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Interviews
I, Robot: PW Talks with Madhumita Murgia
In ‘Code Dependent,’ Madhumita Murgia, artificial intelligence editor at the ‘Financial Times,’ discusses the human side of AI.
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Adult Previews
These New Books Will Help You Understand AI
In a slate of new books, authors consider the emerging technology’s potential payoffs and pitfalls.
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Publisher News
Will Human-AI Partnerships Make Publishing Workers More Innovative?
The journey is just beginning, writes columnist Ken Brooks, but publishing workflows are especially ripe for AI integration that enables the automation of rote tasks—and AI-driven support for more humans making more complex decisions and judgments.
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Shows & Events
Book Biz CEOs Discuss Navigating Rapid Changes at 2024 U.S. Book Show
More than 800 attendees joined PW and the AALA at this year's U.S. Book Show, where the CEOs of Abrams, Baker & Taylor, Scholastic, and Simon & Schuster kicked off programming with insights on the state of the industry, AI, retaining talent, and more.
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Content / e-books
Book Business AI Showcase: Shimmr and Pix
In the second of an ongoing series of articles spotlighting book business–related AI startups, we take a look at Shimmr, an automated book advertising service, and Likewise's Pix, a chatbot and app that offers book recommendations.
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Shows & Events
AI Challenges, Freedom to Read Top AAP Annual Meeting Discussions
Strategies to rein in illegal copying of copyrighted materials to fuel generative and efforts to defend freedom of expression were front and center at this year's annual meeting of the Association of American Publishers.
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Content / e-books
Book Business AI Showcase: Hypnovels and Maven
In the first of an ongoing series of articles spotlighting book business–related AI startups, we take a look at Hypnovels, a book trailers and video generator, and Maven, a publisher that allows readers to ask questions of books through WhatsApp.
