1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (713+ words) Has AI use plateaued? Not exactly, but a more studious attitude has replaced the excitement of early adopters. Keith Riegert, president of the Stable Book Group and CEO of Perfect Bound, has been a vocal advocate for the use of…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (174+ words) The chief customer officer of Veristage says publishers now process the equivalent of more than 50,000 books per month through Insight, her company’s AI publishing services platform—and that figure is growing fast. You’re based in the U.S., but working…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (204+ words) In a class action case filed by the Authors Guild and its co-plaintiff authors against OpenAI and Microsoft, all parties have filed motions for summary judgment. In a summary judgment, a judge may weigh undisputed evidence and render a decision…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (514+ words) Claim notices sent out last week in Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement has led to a fair amount of confusion about how publishers and authors are dividing the proceeds. Under the settlement, each work that was included in the agreement is…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (709+ words) Even by online startup standards, the rise of Webtoon has been dizzying. Founded in South Korea in 2004, at a moment when no unified platform existed for the rapidly multiplying number of web-based independent comics, the company now comprises the largest…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (163+ words) Publishers Weekly Elsevier Launches AI Assistant for Healthcare E-books A few days before Google’s announcement about its Expert Intelligence initiative for e-books bought through Google Play, Elsevier announced the launch of Nora AI, an AI-powered assistant available within Elsevier…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (168+ words) HarperCollins has turned to Amazon to find its new VP for online and digital sales. Scott Sanders will join the publisher on September 8 reporting to Stephanie Fryling, who was named president of sales in April. At Amazon, Sanders most recently…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (451+ words) Publishers Weekly Random House Suspends Fall Title Due to Plagiarism Concerns Ross Barkan’s The Revolutionary: Zohran Mamdani and the Remaking of American Politics, scheduled for publication by Random House on October 6, is no longer available on the Penguin Random…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (229+ words) In a new study released by AI detection platform Originality.ai, 63% of paperback religious books listed for sale on Amazon were flagged as likely written by AI. To arrive at that number, Originality.ai analyzed 2,034 English-language paperbacks with at least…...