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Content / e-booksIngram Adds AI Tools to iD Advertising Platform
Ingram Content Group has added AI-powered ad copy generation and automated image creation tools to its Ingram iD advertising platform, which it says has access to four million active book buyers.
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News
Publishers Join Growing AI Protest Movement Across Europe
Actes Sud and Planeta represented the publishing sector at a meeting this week at the European Parliament to discuss fair implementation of AI policy as discontent among creators in Europe becomes more widespread.
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Content / e-books
Audible Expands Catalog with AI Narration and Translation Services
Audible is now offering AI-powered narration and production services to select audiobook publishers, with AI translation services to launch in beta later this year.
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Publisher News
Publishers Prepare for Battle with Big Tech Over AI
Speakers at the Association of American Publishers’ annual meeting on May 8 agreed that preventing tech companies from pirating copyrighted material to train AI is essential to the industry’s future.
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Copyright
Copyright Chief Fired Amid AI Debate
The Trump administration fired Shira Perlmutter, the register of copyrights and director of the U.S. Copyright Office, on Saturday—just one day after the dismissal of her boss, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, and the Copyright Office’s release of a preliminary report on generative AI and copyright.
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Shows & Events
BISG Wants to Revolutionize the Book Business Supply Chain
Creating an industrywide system that can make better use of digital communications while preparing publishing for the challenges and opportunities of AI will require new approaches and renewed commitments, speakers at BISG's annual meeting stressed.
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Conferences
AI in Publishing: PW Talks with Fauzia Burke
The veteran publicist and founder of FSB Associates will keynote this Friday’s Professional Publishers Network conference in Berkeley, Calif., where she will offer an optimistic view on AI’s potential in an industry often resistant to technological change.
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News
LatAm Publishing Leaders Tackle Gender Inequality, AI at Princeton Conference
Women have made advances in Latin American publishing, but men still hold much of the power, said industry leaders at a conference convened earlier this month by Princeton University Press. AI too, is having an impact, with publishers primarily concerned about protecting IP.
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Copyright
As Industry Demands AI Licensing Frameworks, Emerging Tech Can Help
With generative AI forging ahead unfettered, leaders in publishing and other creative industries are asking for licensing frameworks that protect creators while enabling technological innovation. New platforms and software are bringing solutions closer.
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Book Deals
Book Deals: Week of April 21, 2025
FSG pulls in a hot history of the artificial intelligence industry, two major names in music sell two new books, and more in this week’s book deals.
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Conferences
AI Threatens Creators’ Livelihoods, Experts Say
Experts from different creative industries discussed how they are coping with technological disruption at a conference last week in Washington, D.C.
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Publisher News
AAP Files Amicus Brief in Meta AI Copyright Case
The Association of American Publishers filed an amicus brief on April 11 supporting authors in their class action lawsuit against Meta for copyright infringement related to AI training.
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Industry News
‘Convenience’ of AI Art Threatens Human Creativity, Illustrator Argues
With the development of OpenAI’s new image generation technology, publishing professionals at Bologna shared concerns about the impact of AI’s ability to generate picture book illustrations.
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Conferences
Unethical AI Training Harms Creators and Society, Argues AI Pioneer
Ed Newton-Rex, founder of the U.K.-based nonprofit Fairly Trained, argued at a recent forum in Washington, D.C., that AI companies’ unlawful use of creative works to train AI models has had deleterious effects not only on artists’ incomes and livelihoods but on the open internet.
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Shows & Events
Politicians Assert U.S. Constitution Mandates Protecting Creativity
At an April 8 summit on AI, Vermont senator Peter Welch and former Virginia representative Bob Goodlatte, among others, stressed that copyright protections should not be dismantled to accelerate AI development.
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Publisher News
Taylor & Francis to Translate Books into English Using AI
The U.K.-based academic publisher has announced plans to use AI to translate books into English from languages that would otherwise have too small of an audience to justify paying for human translation.
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Content / e-books
The Audiobook Business Learns to Embrace AI
At a panel at this year’s London Book Fair, executives from Bookwire, Hachette, and Storytel examined AI’s impact on the audiobook market, opportunities the technology could create, and concerns over rights management and compensation.
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Copyright
Book Biz to Big Tech: Pay Up, Then We Can Make Up
Artificial intelligence is upending publishing, and industry leaders know there’s no end in sight. That’s why they plan to win key copyright lawsuits—then forge a path forward through Silicon Valley.
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Copyright
Publishers See Mixed Messages in Paris AI Summit
The just-concluded Artificial Intelligence Action Summit did not include copyright protection as one of its six top priorities, to the disappointment of the AAP, but did mention that protection of IP is worthy of “global reflection.”
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Publisher News
AAP, IPA Join Groups Calling for AI to Respect Copyright
The Association of American Publishers, under the auspices of the International Publishers Association, is among 38 international organizations that have released a joint statement calling for oversight and regulation of artificial intelligence development, especially in regard to respect for copyright and IP.
