#publishers — Public Fediverse posts

ICYMI: Digital Content Next says Google must now deliver ad tech fixes it promised: Kint argues auction data, not display revenue, was the prize. Publishers wait 14 days for the sealed opinion and 30 for a joint judgment. Will it be enforced? https://ppc.land/digital-content-next-says-google-must-now-deliver-ad-tech-fixes-it-promised/ #DigitalMarketing #AdTech #GoogleAds #Publishers #AuctionData

ICYMI: Digital Content Next says Google must now deliver ad tech fixes it promised: Kint argues auction data, not display revenue, was the prize. Publishers wait 14 days for the sealed opinion and 30 for a joint judgment. Will it be enforced? https://ppc.land/digital-content-next-says-google-must-now-deliver-ad-tech-fixes-it-promised/ #DigitalMarketing #AdTech #GoogleAds #Publishers #AuctionData

ICYMI: Digital Content Next says Google must now deliver ad tech fixes it promised: Kint argues auction data, not display revenue, was the prize. Publishers wait 14 days for the sealed opinion and 30 for a joint judgment. Will it be enforced? https://ppc.land/digital-content-next-says-google-must-now-deliver-ad-tech-fixes-it-promised/ #DigitalMarketing #AdTech #GoogleAds #Publishers #AuctionData

ICYMI: Digital Content Next says Google must now deliver ad tech fixes it promised: Kint argues auction data, not display revenue, was the prize. Publishers wait 14 days for the sealed opinion and 30 for a joint judgment. Will it be enforced? https://ppc.land/digital-content-next-says-google-must-now-deliver-ad-tech-fixes-it-promised/ #DigitalMarketing #AdTech #GoogleAds #Publishers #AuctionData

ICYMI: Digital Content Next says Google must now deliver ad tech fixes it promised: Kint argues auction data, not display revenue, was the prize. Publishers wait 14 days for the sealed opinion and 30 for a joint judgment. Will it be enforced? https://ppc.land/digital-content-next-says-google-must-now-deliver-ad-tech-fixes-it-promised/ #DigitalMarketing #AdTech #GoogleAds #Publishers #AuctionData

The Quad members are 7 experienced #editors: @scieditor, Sarah Grey, @ecbrenner, @lepoole, @AmyJSchneider, Lori Paximadis, and me. We offer expertise and services to support #publishers, #authors, and #organizations. https://quadlings.com/

The Quad members are 7 experienced #editors: @scieditor, Sarah Grey, @ecbrenner, @lepoole, @AmyJSchneider, Lori Paximadis, and me. We offer expertise and services to support #publishers, #authors, and #organizations. https://quadlings.com/

The Quad members are 7 experienced #editors: @scieditor, Sarah Grey, @ecbrenner, @lepoole, @AmyJSchneider, Lori Paximadis, and me. We offer expertise and services to support #publishers, #authors, and #organizations. https://quadlings.com/

The Quad members are 7 experienced #editors: @scieditor, Sarah Grey, @ecbrenner, @lepoole, @AmyJSchneider, Lori Paximadis, and me. We offer expertise and services to support #publishers, #authors, and #organizations. https://quadlings.com/

The Quad members are 7 experienced #editors: @scieditor, Sarah Grey, @ecbrenner, @lepoole, @AmyJSchneider, Lori Paximadis, and me. We offer expertise and services to support #publishers, #authors, and #organizations. https://quadlings.com/

ICYMI: DOJ loses AdX divestiture bid as Brinkema accepts behavioral remedies: Structural relief is dead in Virginia: no AdX sale, no open-sourced DFP auction logic. Publishers wait on a sealed opinion and a 30-day final judgment deadline. https://ppc.land/doj-loses-adx-divestiture-bid-as-brinkema-accepts-behavioral-remedies/ #DOJ #AdX #Divestiture #BehavioralRemedies #Publishers

ICYMI: DOJ loses AdX divestiture bid as Brinkema accepts behavioral remedies: Structural relief is dead in Virginia: no AdX sale, no open-sourced DFP auction logic. Publishers wait on a sealed opinion and a 30-day final judgment deadline. https://ppc.land/doj-loses-adx-divestiture-bid-as-brinkema-accepts-behavioral-remedies/ #DOJ #AdX #Divestiture #BehavioralRemedies #Publishers

ICYMI: DOJ loses AdX divestiture bid as Brinkema accepts behavioral remedies: Structural relief is dead in Virginia: no AdX sale, no open-sourced DFP auction logic. Publishers wait on a sealed opinion and a 30-day final judgment deadline. https://ppc.land/doj-loses-adx-divestiture-bid-as-brinkema-accepts-behavioral-remedies/ #DOJ #AdX #Divestiture #BehavioralRemedies #Publishers

Update. Another article made it through peer review (this time at #JAMA Network) asserting that the #NIH policy requires NIH-funded authors to pay #APCs.

"Cost of Article Processing Charges to Adhere to National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy."
http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2026.3463
(#paywalled)

The authors are actually confused and inconsistent on this point. On the one hand, they make clear that compliance through PubMed Central (#PMC) is free of charge. On the other, they say (in Table 1) that green OA articles needn't pay APCs to comply with the older NIH policy but must pay APCs to comply with the new NIH policy.

PS: Some publishers -- like Springer Nature and Taylor & Francis -- do charge APCs to NIH-funded authors to publish in their journals, and don't let those authors publish in their no-APC non-OA journals. They even frame those APC-based paths to publication as ways to comply with the NIH policy. But the NIH policy requires deposit in PMC (#GreenOA), which is free of charge. These publishers are charging APCs to publish in their journals, which is entirely optional and not required by any policy.

#Compliance #FunderPolicies #NelsonMemo #Publishers #OpenAccess #ScholComm

@EricLawton For many years, the #bookMarket is a shark pool.
When my literary agent started to look out for a contract, he always had to show first: how prominent I was (bad points), how many followers I had on which platforms, if I could bring blurbs from very famous people/contacts to media, if I was a good actor for events. All that before they had a look on what I wrote.
It got worse when very big corporations bought independent #publishers.

#bookstodon #PublishingIndustry

"Back in April, bestselling #author #MegKeene came on #TheJewishAngle—with some reluctance—to talk about what she saw as a growing problem for #Jewish #writers in mainstream #publishing. She spoke about being quietly pressured from agents, #publishers and industry insiders to change Jewish characters’ names and hide #Israeli backgrounds or connections.

But rather than be excommunicated from the publishing world, her inbox filled up with messages from writers and publishers in the same situation. She’s since worked with the #AntiDefamationLeague and an offer from the publishers at #WickedSon to start her own imprint, #MegKeeneBooks.

Now #Keene is on a mission to #publish around four Jewish #fiction #books over the next year, from romance to thriller."

https://thecjn.ca/arts-culture/meg-keene-is-on-a-mission-to-discover-the-next-great-jewish-writer/

Explaining remnant: Remnant is publisher ad inventory left unsold after direct deals close, priced by auction instead of a rate card and filled by exchanges, networks or house ads. https://ppc.land/remnant/ #DigitalMarketing #ProgrammaticAdvertising #AdTech #RemnantInventory #Publishers

The Quad members are 7 experienced #editors: Adrienne Montgomerie, Sarah Grey, Erin Brenner, Laura Poole, Amy J. Schneider, Lori Paximadis, and me. We offer expertise and services to support #publishers, #authors, and #organizations. https://quadlings.com

The next #FediBookFair will be 7th/8th November.

#Authors and #publishers are invited to post about their books, or related subjects like research, using the #FediBookFair hashtag. They can also run competitions, offer signed copies, etc.

#Readers can watch or follow the hashtag to find #books to read and authors to follow.

Full details at https://AuthorHelp.uk/FediBookFair/

Boosts appreciated.

#author #WritersOfMastodon #writing #WritingCommunity #bookstodon

FYI: Google kills euro check payouts for AdSense, change spotted 11 days late: Publishers on euro checks lost the option on August 7, 2026, and the Help Center note surfaced only on August 18. Dollar checks, EFT, SEPA and wire remain open. https://ppc.land/google-kills-euro-check-payouts-for-adsense-change-spotted-11-days-late/ #Google #AdSense #Payouts #DigitalMarketing #Publishers

Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI-driven traffic losses

Google is giving publishers a new button that lets readers make them a preferred source across Search, Discover, and Google News, potentially boosting their traffic as AI search sends fewer clicks to the web.

https://justpaste.in/news/google-gives-publishers-a-new-way-to-fight-ai-driven-traffic-losses/

#Google #Search #AI #MediaampEntertainment #publishers

Many big #publishers in #book publishing seem to be trying to wet their toes: www.forbes.com/sites/rashis... If you want to have #writers create #books without having it all fed to #AI companies before it's even released, please speak up. Even if you're a #reader or #booktok reviewer or such.

Why Penguin Random House And M...

The Quad members are 7 experienced editors: @ecbrenner, Adrienne Montgomerie, Sarah Grey, @lepoole, Lori Paximadis, @AmyJSchneider, & me. We offer expertise & services to support #publishers, #authors, & #organizations. https://quadlings.com/ (2/2)

Having seen research from many different angles – as a clinician, #researcher, trial manager – she knows that every manuscript represents years of work by real people
#Technology can help #publishers handle growing volumes of research, spot patterns, make processes more efficient – it can speed up good science & reduce routine tasks. But it cannot replace the human judgement, accountability & shared responsibility that scholarly publishing relies on.

Interview by Tim Gillett

it was the nature of clinical practice itself.
Every manuscript represents years of work
#Integrity is no longer just an ethical issue. #Publishers have a unique responsibility
However, Shilpi is equally clear that publishers cannot view integrity as someone else’s problem. They are the “gatekeepers”, she says, that responsibility extends beyond editorial workflows.
From detecting #badscience to supporting #goodscience

FYI: Google faces French complaint as AI summaries cut traffic up to 38%: Publishers invoke 2022 commitments that bind Google until July 2027, filed 20 days after AI Overviews reached France. Will the Autorité reopen negotiations? https://ppc.land/google-faces-french-complaint-as-ai-summaries-cut-traffic-up-to-38/ #Google #AI #Publishers #France #Traffic

The Quad members are 7 experienced editors: Adrienne Montgomerie, Sarah Grey, @ecbrenner, @AmyJSchneider, @lepoole, Lori Paximadis, and me. We offer #expertise and #services to support #publishers, #authors, and #organizations. https://quadlings.com/ (2/2)

ICYMI: Four gaming publishers gain up to 14X APS revenue through InMobi SDK bridge: Beta publishers changed no mediation settings while native rendering opened 28 extra bidders and over 1,000 advertisers. Does one ceiling figure hold at scale? https://ppc.land/four-gaming-publishers-gain-up-to-14x-aps-revenue-through-inmobi-sdk-bridge/ #Gaming #Publishers #InMobi #SDK #Revenue

ICYMI: USA TODAY Co. loses 22 million monthly unique visitors in one quarter: Digital advertising fell 9.2% to $79.8m after a programmatic partner exited, squeezing publisher supply. Reed puts cutting Google off at 9 to 15 months out. https://ppc.land/usa-today-co-loses-22-million-monthly-unique-visitors-in-one-quarter/ #DigitalMarketing #Advertising #Media #Publishers #ProgrammaticAdvertising

The posthumous release of mystery writer Keigo Higashino's final work saw fans of the late author's work flock to bookstores in Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026/08/05/books/higashino-new-book-release/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #books #keigohigashino #books #publishers

A knowledge economy is based on intellectual efforts, many of which create immaterial value. This value can grow over and over again, the resources needed stay the same.

www.netopia.eu/can-copyrigh... #AI #publishers #copyright

🔸 Did you know that you can submit direct feedback on every single journal in DOAJ?
#metadata #JournalMetadata #Librarians #publishers
🔸 If you run the journal, see info on how to keep your journal up to date https://doaj.org/apply/publisher-responsibilities/#keeping-your-journal-records-up-to-date

The Quad members are 7 experienced editors: Adrienne Montgomerie, Sarah Grey, @ecbrenner, Lori Paximadis, @AmyJSchneider, @lepoole, & me. We offer expertise & services to support #publishers, #authors, & #organizations. https://quadlings.com/ (2/2)

Watching with interest:

"Federal lawsuit accuses four major publishers of extorting article processing charges."
https://retractionwatch.com/2026/07/31/federal-lawsuit-major-publishers-article-processing-charges-false-claims-act/

"A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses four major publishers of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant #APCs. The case…claims Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Informa [Taylor & Francis] forced U.S. research institutions to submit false claims to the government for reimbursement through article fees up to 10 times the cost of processing the articles."

#Litigation #Publishers #ScholComm #USLaw

Sunday, August 2, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/08/sunday-august-2-2026/

Monday, July 27, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/07/monday-july-27-2026/

Poetry publisher guidelines ~

"... one of the main things we’re looking for is diversity; we have enough room to be eclectic, and we plan on using it. So while most magazines suggest reading their back issues to get a sense of what they like to publish, we’d suggest reading to get a sense of what we’re having trouble finding—if you notice a style or subject matter that we don’t seem to be publishing, send us that!"

#Publishers #Poetry #Submissions

Publisher guidelines ~

"WHAT WE'RE NOT LOOKING FOR: Excessive anything. Think PG-13, R if necessary. We're not attempting to salt the earth with more cultural dogma couched as mediocre fiction, or writers who are jockeying for the title of Most Woke. There’s enough of that out there already. You want to impress us? Write a good story. You want to get published? Write a great one."

#Publishers #Submissions

FYI: Google Discover gives 54 publishers exclusive profile controls in secret pilot: Google is testing enhanced Discover publisher profiles with custom banners, links, and pinned posts for 54 U.S. publishers in a pilot running since March 2026. https://ppc.land/google-discover-gives-54-publishers-exclusive-profile-controls-in-secret-pilot/ #GoogleDiscover #DigitalMarketing #Publishers #SocialMedia #ContentMarketing

ICYMI: Google Discover gives 54 publishers exclusive profile controls in secret pilot: Google is testing enhanced Discover publisher profiles with custom banners, links, and pinned posts for 54 U.S. publishers in a pilot running since March 2026. https://ppc.land/google-discover-gives-54-publishers-exclusive-profile-controls-in-secret-pilot/ #GoogleDiscover #Publishers #DigitalMarketing #SocialMedia #ContentCreation

Walled Culture the book, three years on

Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) was launched just over three years ago. A few weeks afterwards, I talked with journalist and editor Maria Bustillos about the book and its background, as part of the Internet Archive’s Book Talk series. That interview has just been added to the Future Knowledge Podcast series in a shortened form, so this seems like a good moment to […]

#agcom #analogue #browsers #canada #cdn #collectiveLicensing #copyrightTerm #diamondOpenAccess #digital #digitalViolence #dns #ebooks #enforcement #eu #euCopyrightDirective #films #france #genai #generativeAi #germany #google #hostageWorks #humanRights #InternetArchive #interview #italy #levy #licensing #linkTax #MarrakeshTreaty #newspapers #openAccess #openai #piracyShield #podcast #portugal #publicDomain #publishers #routers #spain #streaming #tax #transparency #trueFans #tv #uk #uploadFilters #videoGames #vpn

https://walledculture.org/walled-culture-the-book-three-years-on/

From the #journal Nature, an excerpt from an article with the title “#AI Is Transforming Peer Review — and Many #Scientists Are #Worried”: “Some enthusiasts see the #automation of #peer #review as an #inevitability — but many #researchers, such as [ecologist Timothée] Poisot, as well as #journal #publishers, view it as a #disaster. …” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00894-7

RSL is the missing layer for the AI era: set terms, get attribution, and get paid (per crawl or per inference). Open standard, collective leverage. If AI uses your work, it should respect your license. Time to take control.

https://hostvix.com/rsl-a-new-standard-to-make-ai-pay-for-the-content-it-consumes/

#RSL #ReallySimpleLicensing #AI #AIethics #AIsafety #AIdata #ContentRights #Licensing #OpenWeb #RobotsTxt #Publishers #Creators #Attribution #PayPerCrawl #PayPerInference #RSS #WebStandards #DigitalRights #CollectiveLicensing #Fastly

#Cloudflare launched a #marketplace called #PayperCrawl, allowing website owners to charge #AIbots for scraping their content: Cloudflare acts as an #intermediary, facilitating transactions between #publishers and #AIcompanies. https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/cloudflare-launches-a-marketplace-that-lets-websites-charge-ai-bots-for-scraping/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

Kudos to the #Connecticut legislature for passing a new law on digital books and following the 2020 model legislation from #LibraryFutures.(@libraryfutures).
https://www.libraryfutures.net/post/connecticut-ebook-bill

"After the governor signs, #publishers will no longer be able to
* Prohibit #libraries from #lending #ebooks on their own terms,, including via interlibrary loan (#ILL)
* Restrict #license terms or checkout limits during the term of a license without offering agreements on “commercially reasonable terms” that align with the library mission
* Limit when libraries can buy an ebook license or how many licenses they can buy
* Prohibit libraries from making #preservation #copies
* Require libraries to violate patron confidentiality."

#Books #Privacy

Wonderful! Anna Abalkina & the #RetractionWatch blog‬ have put together the Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker. This will help #publishers and #authors who don't want legitimate, high-quality #research #articles ending up in #hijacked #journals. https://retractionwatch.com/the-retraction-watch-hijacked-journal-checker/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ak985WGOgGbJRJbZFanoktAN_UFeExpE/edit#gid=364865985

#Valve Just Put Game #Publishers On Notice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpypPqZNxPA

#Gaming #Steam #Refund #GabeN

The Japan Fair Trade Commission announced Tuesday that it had issued a warning to publishing giant Kadokawa for unlawfully slashing payments to subcontractors. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/11/13/companies/kadokawa-underpricing-warning/ #business #companies #kadokawa #publishers #freelance #ftc #laborlaws

The truth about copyright: even successful authors can’t live on the royalties publishers pay them

Copyright is built on a lie that most people seem to accept: artists can make a decent living from the current system of rewards that copyright provides. As Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) explores, all the data about artist remuneration shows that isn’t true. Alongside such dry statistics, it’s good to hear about the personal experiences of creators, and I […]

#authors #earnedOut #patronage #publishers #royalties #ubi #universalBasicIncome

https://walledculture.org/the-truth-about-copyright-even-successful-authors-cant-live-on-the-royalties-publishers-pay-them/