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Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Bookbaby has several examples of book marketing that worked. Kobo now supports exporting annotations. Trump filed a frivolous lawsuit against Penguin RandomHouse and the NYTimes this week. The lawsuit was thrown out days later. Johann Christian Bach’s 1777 lawsuit against sheet music publishers marked the […]| Nate Hoffelder
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Jane Friedman takes a look at how the book publishing industry has changed over the past ten years. I’d suggest that take her piece with a grain of salt; here data source (AAP revenue statistics) only reflects a minority of the book publishing industry. Last […]| Nate Hoffelder
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Anthropic has announced a settlement in the massive piracy lawsuit they were losing. Yikes – if your publisher promised to register your copyright, you might want to double check that. The Kobo-Instapaper integration is now live. Jonathan Bailey is right – AI is not democratizing […]| Nate Hoffelder
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. The judge in the Meta AI piracy case has expressed doubt that generative AI could ever be considered fair use. The Onyx Boox Mira is a 25.3″ E-ink monitor which costs nearly $2k. Ewww – The BBC is planning to use AI to create video […]| Nate Hoffelder
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Publishers Weekly has the details on a new survey of British readers. The review site eBookFairs.com might have a positive recommendation from a well-known author, but it doesn’t appear to be working for everyone. Japanese legislators are promising to take action following news of ChatGPT […]| Nate Hoffelder