#askthisbook — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #askthisbook, aggregated by home.social.
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Bought an anatomy book. Kindle immediately highlights "Ask this Book," before I read it. Annoying. It would be annoying even if Amazon paid authors extra for LLM training on their book and even did it privately on the reader's device, but they don't. That's a "derivative work" right they ain't paying for, btw. I want to remove the distracting button, too. For usability reasons. But I can't. Can't remove the Rufus from the store app that adds extra friction to buying and searching for things. Are they mad? Bonuses do trump good UI design, right?
I hope #Amazon gets burnt (to a cinder) when #AI spirals into the financial black hole it's forming. #askthisbook #rufus #author
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News Podcast: Nebula Awards Reverse AI Policy and Authors Challenge Amazon’s ‘Ask This Book’
In this episode of Self-Publishing News, Dan Holloway examines the Nebula Awards’ abrupt reversal on AI eligibility rules, moving from disclosure to a blanket ban and sparking debate across the science fiction and fantasy…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/podcast-nebula-awards-reverse-ai-policy/#Podcast #AIeligibilityrules #AskThisBook #authorlicensing #generativeAIwriting
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News Podcast: Nebula Awards Reverse AI Policy and Authors Challenge Amazon’s ‘Ask This Book’
In this episode of Self-Publishing News, Dan Holloway examines the Nebula Awards’ abrupt reversal on AI eligibility rules, moving from disclosure to a blanket ban and sparking debate across the science fiction and fantasy…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/podcast-nebula-awards-reverse-ai-policy/#Podcast #AIeligibilityrules #AskThisBook #authorlicensing #generativeAIwriting
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News Podcast: Nebula Awards Reverse AI Policy and Authors Challenge Amazon’s ‘Ask This Book’
In this episode of Self-Publishing News, Dan Holloway examines the Nebula Awards’ abrupt reversal on AI eligibility rules, moving from disclosure to a blanket ban and sparking debate across the science fiction and fantasy…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/podcast-nebula-awards-reverse-ai-policy/#Podcast #AIeligibilityrules #AskThisBook #authorlicensing #generativeAIwriting
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News Podcast: Nebula Awards Reverse AI Policy and Authors Challenge Amazon’s ‘Ask This Book’
In this episode of Self-Publishing News, Dan Holloway examines the Nebula Awards’ abrupt reversal on AI eligibility rules, moving from disclosure to a blanket ban and sparking debate across the science fiction and fantasy…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/podcast-nebula-awards-reverse-ai-policy/#Podcast #AIeligibilityrules #AskThisBook #authorlicensing #generativeAIwriting
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News Summary: Authors Guild Pushes Back on Amazon’s ‘Ask This Book’ AI Feature
The news starts 2026 as it ended 2025, with Amazon's new Ask This Book feature for Kindle books. When I first reported on this, I had yet to see the response from authors. Thanks to a link in Jane Friedman's newsletter, I have now been able to read and digest a very robust…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/ask-this-book/#AIfeatures #AmazonKindle #AskThisBook #authorrights #AuthorsGuild
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News Podcast: Amazon’s ‘Ask This Book’ Feature Sparks Debate as 2025 Wraps Up
On this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi podcast, Dan Holloway closes out 2025 by examining Amazon’s new “Ask This Book” AI feature for Kindle and the backlash over its always-on use with no author opt-out. He reflects on a year shaped by AI…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/podcast-ask-this-book/#Podcast #2025publishingreview #AmazonKindleAI #AskThisBook #authoroptout
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News Podcast: Amazon’s ‘Ask This Book’ Feature Sparks Debate as 2025 Wraps Up
On this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi podcast, Dan Holloway closes out 2025 by examining Amazon’s new “Ask This Book” AI feature for Kindle and the backlash over its always-on use with no author opt-out. He reflects on a year shaped by AI…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/podcast-ask-this-book/#Podcast #2025publishingreview #AmazonKindleAI #AskThisBook #authoroptout
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News Podcast: Amazon’s ‘Ask This Book’ Feature Sparks Debate as 2025 Wraps Up
On this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi podcast, Dan Holloway closes out 2025 by examining Amazon’s new “Ask This Book” AI feature for Kindle and the backlash over its always-on use with no author opt-out. He reflects on a year shaped by AI…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/podcast-ask-this-book/#Podcast #2025publishingreview #AmazonKindleAI #AskThisBook #authoroptout
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News Podcast: Amazon’s ‘Ask This Book’ Feature Sparks Debate as 2025 Wraps Up
On this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi podcast, Dan Holloway closes out 2025 by examining Amazon’s new “Ask This Book” AI feature for Kindle and the backlash over its always-on use with no author opt-out. He reflects on a year shaped by AI…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/podcast-ask-this-book/#Podcast #2025publishingreview #AmazonKindleAI #AskThisBook #authoroptout
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#Kindle’s new #AskThisBook feature uses #AI to answer questions about #books, providing #plotdetails and #characterexplanations. While the feature is currently only available on #iOS, it will be rolled out to other devices in 2026. The feature has raised #concerns about #copyright and #licensing rights, as #authors cannot opt out. https://uk.pcmag.com/ebook-readers/162032/kindles-new-ai-feature-can-answer-questions-about-your-books-whether-authors-want-it-or-not?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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Kindle balance une IA dans vos livres et les auteurs n'ont pas leur mot à dire
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://korben.info/kindle-ia-ask-book-amazon-auteurs-opt-out.html
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I've become cynical enough to believe that these tech companies are intentionally baiting major AI lawsuits in hopes of getting one in front of the 6-3 conservative majority SCOTUS to establish legal precedent in their own favor for at least a generation
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Victoria Strauss on Writer Beware, about amazon's latest rights grab: the AskThis Book feature, rolled out without notification to publishers or authors, and likely infringing on copyright.