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News Summary: Jane Friedman Publishes AI Law FAQ; $3 Million Ruling against Meta Highlights Social Media Risks

Jane Friedman has a long history of publishing incredibly useful information for indie authors. And now she has added an extremely helpful compendium of AI law information. In the form of FAQs, it addresses many of the cases and points of law raised by them that will be of interest to writers. From questions of the disclosure of the use of AI to licensing rights, claims of fair use, and whether you can copyright AI-generated material, this is a handy summary of many of the topics you might want to know about.
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https://selfpublishingadvice.org/jane-friedman-publishes-ai-law-faq/

#AIlawFAQ #BookTok #JaneFriedman #mentalhealth #Meta

News Summary: Direct Selling Gains Momentum Among Indie Authors as Platforms Like Substack and Draft2Digital Expand Options

Jane Friedman and others highlight the growing trend of direct selling for authors, with new opportunities on Substack, IBPA, and Draft2Digital.
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/direct-selling-gains-momentum/

#directselling #Draft2Digital #IBPA #indieauthors #JaneFriedman

This Crazy Thing We Do

In Publishing News this week A tentative agreement has been reached with authors and Anthropic reports Publishers Weekly. This means an out of court settlement is on the cards. If you have a claim against Anthropic scraping your work to teach its AI you need to register before September 1 st. Tech…
https://www.maureencrisp.com/2025/08/this-crazy-thing-we-do.html

#AI #DianaUrban #jamesscottbell #JaneFriedman #jenniferprobst
@indieauthors

News Summary: Romantasy’s Popularity Shows No Signs of Slowing, Opening Doors for New Writers and Genres

Romantasy is everywhere. You will have noticed that not only in this column but wherever people are talking about books, whether in traditional media or social media. It feels as though this has been going on for as long as I can…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/romantasys-popularity/

#bestsellerlists #genrecrossover #JaneFriedman #Klyticsanalysis #Romantasytrend
@indieauthors

#JaneFriedman
#Quote

Finally...a bestseller list for self-published books thanks to Jane Friedman . The Hotshot and Bookstat!

https://hotsheetpub.com/2023/11/october-2023-bestseller-lists/

#writingcommunity #authors #author
#indieauthors #indieauthor #selfpublished #selfpublishing #janefriedman #books #publishing

@indieauthornews

I like this:

"What I want in fiction is a virtuoso demonstration of the use of our messy, malleable, beautiful language."

#JaneFriedman #writing #amWritingFiction

#JaneFriedman si è svegliata una mattina scoprendo libri a suo nome scritti da #AI e venduti su #Amazon. La cosa è peggiorata. Anche più di quello che capita a disegnatori costretti a competere con "Fammi un disegno nello stile di..."

https://www.bufale.net/arrivano-i-falsi-libri-creati-con-ai-lodissea-di-jane-friedman/

Somebody published books generated by AI with the name and style of author Jane Friedman on Amazon. Illustrates the risks and problems we are facing. https://janefriedman.com/i-would-rather-see-my-books-pirated/
#AI #JaneFriedman #Amazon #GenerativeAI

Publishing industry powerhouse Jane Friedman had a host of fake, machine generated books put on Amazon and Goodreads with her name on them and had to fight to get them taken down: https://janefriedman.com/i-would-rather-see-my-books-pirated/

#WritingCommunity #bookstodon #JaneFriedman

Author discovers AI-generated counterfeit books written in her name on Amazon - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images)

Upon searching Amazon and Goodr... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1959662 #machinelearning #janefriedman #goodreads #culture #biz⁢ #amazon #tech #spam #ai

Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bought it.
#Goodreads “hasn’t been all that well maintained, or updated, or kept up with what you would expect from social communities or apps in 2023,” said #JaneFriedman, a publishing industry consultant. “It does feel like #Amazon bought it and then abandoned it.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/01/amazon-goodreads-elizabeth-gilbert/

@WritingItReal Allison K. Williams is a gem:
“Very few of the people who hurt us woke up every morning, yawned, stretched, and said, “I can’t wait to start oppressing the narrator today!” Show why they behaved the way they did. It’s not excusing their behavior to give the context of cultural or family issues, addictions, or their own bad treatment they’ve been doomed to repeat.” #memoir #JaneFriedman

This, via Warren Ellis, is a useful resource. I also like that its creator, Jane Friedman, has made it available to be downloaded, printed, and shared “no permission required” (although I wish she’d explicitly used a CC0 license) When I shared this with a friend, they pointed out that it doesn’t include the ‘kickstarter’ kind of model. While Friedman points out that the chart is primarily for ‘trade press’ (i.e. books with a general audience) there’s a whole different type of approach, which I kind of pioneered a decade ago with OpenBeta and which is more easily achieved these days with platforms such as Leanpub. (click on image to download PDF) One of the biggest questions I hear from authors today: Should I traditionally publish or self-publish? This is an increasingly complicated question to answer because: There are now many varieties of traditional publishing and self-publishing, with evolving models and diverse contracts. It’s not an either/or proposition; you can do both. Many successful authors, including myself, decide which path is best based on our goals and career level. Thus, there is no one path or service that’s right for everyone all the time; you should take time to understand the landscape and make a decision based on long-term career goals, as well as the unique qualities of your work. Your choice should also be guided by your own personality (are you an entrepreneurial sort?) and experience as an author (do you have the slightest idea what you’re doing?). Source: The Key Book Publishing Paths: 2023–2024

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/01/12/getting-your-book-published-in-2023/

The greatest expression of the 2023 (so far): “somewhat epistemically suspect behaviour”. Authored by #JaneFriedman — and I am for sure going to steal it and be proud of it ahahah

Source: Jane Friedman “The epistemic and the zetetic” (2020)

P.S. ‘Zetetic’ is a cool word, too. She uses it in the context of the #zeteticNorms (= norms of inquiry) to distinguish them from #epistemicNorms.

@Epistemology @philosophy #epistemology