#aiandpublishing — Public Fediverse posts
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Something To Talk About
In Publishing News this week The news dominating the last two weeks in publishing is the fall out over the cancelled $2M book deal for Call Me I’ll Hide The Body. When the news broke, the publishing community went into a spin. First there was the bidding war among 14 editors- then there was the advance deal of $2Million! Then the agents walked away from a huge payday for them. The recriminations started. The author is maintaining innocence. Publishers Weekly looks at what the industry can change going forward. There has been some excellent commentary around the whole problem of publishers demanding transparency from authors while using AI in their own offices. Kathleen Scmidt wrote an excellent article on how publishers need to figure out some…
https://www.maureencrisp.com/2026/08/something-to-talk-about.html#AIandpublishing #danblank #IBBY #LiteraryEstates #Mortality
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Publishing must learn to walk and chew AI gum at the same time
Trade bodies decry AI training while quietly cutting costs with it. A response to Javier Celaya's growth-strategy challenge — and where it leads.
The post Publishing must learn to walk and chew AI gum at the same time appeared first on The New Publishing Standard.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2026/06/20/publishings-defensive-crouch-ai-self-shrinkage/#AI #AIandpublishing #AIexpandingpublishingopportunities #JavierCelaya
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The Hand That Feeds: Publishing’s AI Hypocrisy Problem
Major publishers condemn AI as theft while deploying automation to cut narrator, translator, warehouse and operational jobs. TNPS examines the selective labour theory behind publishing's AI moral framework.
The post The Hand That Feeds: Publishing’s AI Hypocrisy Problem appeared first on The New Publishing Standard.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2026/06/06/publishers-ai-hypocrisy-jobs/#AI #PublishingControversies #USA #AIandpublishing #publishershypocrisy
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Shy Girl, Big Questions: What The Hachette-Ballard Affair Tells Us About Publishing’s Unpreparedness For The AI Age
Hachette has cancelled Mia Ballard's contract for Shy Girl over alleged undeclared AI use. TNPS examines what the case reveals about acquisition failures, unreliable detection tools, and the contract gaps nobody has closed yet.
The post Shy Girl, Big Questions: What The Hachette-Ballard Affair Tells Us About Publishing’s Unpreparedness For The AI Age appeared first on The New Publishing Standard.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2026/03/20/shy-girl-hachette-ballard-ai-publishing-contract-cancelled/#AI #PublishingControversies #AIandpublishing #AIcontracts #HachetteBallardcontractcancellation
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TNPS 2025 Story of the Year Part 2: The Psychology of Creativity and Why Publishers Misunderstand It
How publishers misunderstand creativity—and why that matters for AI. Nadim Sadek's psychological framework reveals publishing's real competitive edge.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/12/27/psychology-creativity-ai-publishing-sadek/#AI #PublishingControversies #AIandcreativity #AIandpublishing #NadimSadek
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Reaching More Readers: Being More Human and How AI Can Help, with Orna Ross
“Be more human,” we are told, if we want to thrive as indie authors in the age of AI, continue to sell our books, and remain relevant to readers. But what does that mean in practical terms? In this session, based on ALLi’s Reach More Readers guidebook, Orna Ross…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/podcast-how-ai-can-help/#Podcast #AIandpublishing #bookmarketing #humancreativity #indieauthors
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AI and Publishing: Why the Industry Needs to Stop Playing the Victim Card
The publishing industry has never met a technological advancement it didn’t fear. AI is just the latest panic in a long line of false alarms – Claude Note: this post went out on LinkedIn about two weeks ago, but halfway through threading the post into…
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/10/25/ai-and-publishing-why-the-industry-needs-to-stop-playing-the-victim-card/ -
Beyond Fear: Why Publishing Must Embrace AI as a Tool, Not a Threat
Publishing must move beyond fear to engage thoughtfully with AI. It's a tool, not a threat—and human choices, not technology, determine outcomes.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/08/12/beyond-fear-publishing-must-embrace-ai-as-tool-not-threat/#AI #PublishingBrief #PublishingControversies #AIandpublishing #FearofAIinpublishing
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The Publishing Industry’s Divergent Reactions to Amazon and AI Companies: A Study in Hypocrisy and Dependency
Joke of the Month: "The Trump-Vance FTC will never back down from taking on Big Tech" - US Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson. …
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/03/22/the-publishing-industrys-divergent-reactions-to-amazon-and-ai-companies-a-study-in-hypocrisy-and-dependency/#AI #Amazon #PublishingControversies #AIandpublishing #AmazonFTC
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