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. I’m hearing reports that the same toxic behaviors seen on Goodreads have been spotted in the book community on Facebook’s Threads platform. A new paper from researchers at Apple explores the limitations of AI for solving puzzle and problem. Google has won part of the […]| Nate Hoffelder
Here are a few stories to read this morning. Amazon has added a new accessibility feature section to KDP. After 5 centuries, it appears use of the semicolon is on the decline. The Chicago Sun Times explains how it come to publish a summer reading list consisting mostly of titles hallucinated by AI. New Jersey […]| Nate Hoffelder
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. The Chicago Sun Times published a summer reading list with 10 books on it which did not exist (an AI hallucinated them, LOL). Mozilla is shutting down the bookmarking slash read later service Pocket. Wonder what authors think about AI? Check out Bookbub’s survey. Ariane […]| Nate Hoffelder
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Rakuten launched Kobo plus in Singapore and Malaysia. Michelle Cutler explains how if you don’t define/brand yourself online, others will do it for you. Amazon just added an AI plagiarized music feature to its Alexa speakers. It’s from a company which is already being sued […]| Nate Hoffelder
