#publishers — Public Fediverse posts

PV依存の広告はもう限界？　AI時代の メディア戦略 と多角化の波
https://digiday.jp/publishers/media-briefing-the-post-traffic-era-of-the-open-web-is-taking-shape/

#digiday #Publishers #記事のポイント #AI

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/

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

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

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)

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)

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)

Sunday, August 2, 2026

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

The Quad members are 7 experienced editors: Adrienne Montgomerie, Sarah Grey, Erin Brenner, Laura Poole, Paximadis, Amy J. Schneiter, & me. We offer expertise & services to support #publishers, #authors, & #organizations. https://quadlings.com/ (2/2)

Monday, July 27, 2026

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

NiemanLab: More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism. “Our new analysis shows that more than 340 local news sites across the United States are now limiting the Internet Archive’s ability to access and preserve their stories. Many sites in our sample are owned by five of the seven largest local news publishers in the country: USA Today […]

NiemanLab: More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism. “Our new analysis shows that more than 340 local news sites across the United States are now limiting the Internet Archive’s ability to access and preserve their stories. Many sites in our sample are owned by five of the seven largest local news publishers in the country: USA Today […]

NiemanLab: More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism. “Our new analysis shows that more than 340 local news sites across the United States are now limiting the Internet Archive’s ability to access and preserve their stories. Many sites in our sample are owned by five of the seven largest local news publishers in the country: USA Today […]

NiemanLab: More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism. “Our new analysis shows that more than 340 local news sites across the United States are now limiting the Internet Archive’s ability to access and preserve their stories. Many sites in our sample are owned by five of the seven largest local news publishers in the country: USA Today […]

NiemanLab: More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism. “Our new analysis shows that more than 340 local news sites across the United States are now limiting the Internet Archive’s ability to access and preserve their stories. Many sites in our sample are owned by five of the seven largest local news publishers in the country: USA Today […]

ECJ ruling on ancillary copyright: Meta must pay for press content in Italy www.heise.de/en/news/ECJ-... #press #publishers #copyrightdirective #copyright

ECJ ruling on ancillary copyri...

TorrentFreak: Major Publishers Sue Anna’s Archive Over ‘Staggering’ Copyright Infringement, Seek Injunction. “A coalition of thirteen major publishers, including Penguin Random House, Elsevier, and HarperCollins, filed a new lawsuit against Anna’s Archive. The publishers allege the shadow library is facilitating “staggering” levels of piracy. While the site’s owners are not likely to […]

PressGazette: UK news giants form ‘NATO for news’ group to control AI scraping. “Five major UK news organisations have banded together with the aim of developing shared AI licensing standards…. Now the FT, The Guardian, The Telegraph, BBC and Sky News have founded SPUR: the Standards for Publisher Usage Rights coalition.”

Really excited to share that we’ve published Thoth Open Metadata’s self-assessment against the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). 🎉

For us, this is more than a compliance exercise. It’s an open reflection on how we believe open metadata for books should be governed, sustained, and shared - with community oversight, open-source code, and CC0 data and open APIs at its core. As open access policies evolve, infrastructure transparency matters for publishers, librarians, and policymakers alike. 📚 #MetadataMatters

This work connects directly to the next phase of Thoth’s development - and we’ll be continuing the conversation at the Copim community's #CopimConference tomorrow and on Friday, where we’ll be discussing the future of #communityled #OAbooks and the infrastructure they depend on together with like-minded #openinfras, #libraries, #publishers, and #researchers.

There's no #OpenAccess without #OpenInfrastructure!

https://doi.org/10.70950/sllm9969

#MustRead: "Stronger #communities could be built on traditional #socialmedia platforms, too. But those have proven themselves to be unreliable partners: remember that referrals are down, links are being suppressed, and trusting a tech company means letting tech happen to you, like an asteroid. #Openprotocols are permissionless; building on them means building real ownership, as long as the #protocols are built with #publishers in mind."
@ben
#journalism
https://werd.io/building-trust-in-the-open/

Protecting the integrity of the scholarly record starts with good practices.
This session, with Marie Soulière (COPE) and Amanda Bartell (Crossref), looks at how #metadata, member obligations, and ethics guidance support responsible publishing.
Suitable for #publishers, #editors, and anyone involved in #research integrity. Open to everyone! https://crossref.zoom.us/webinar/register/1517653004602/WN_RC4GAkfZT1m9Tw7YyTmprg
#funders #librarians #community

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

Yet another #CEO saying that, because they and many of those who work for their #forprofit #company have done very well out of the existing #copyright regime, nothing should be allowed to change it, and certainly not #ai:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/18/ai-authors-publishing-regulation

As a rejoinder, here are two reasons why the existing copyright regime is not fit for purpose and should be transformed. They're taken from my forthcoming book Defund Culture, which is being published by a non-profit, scholar-led, #openaccess publisher under a Collective Conditions for Re-Use (CC4r) license:

1) Copyright is a major driver of #inequality in the twenty-first century, playing a pivotal but often overlooked role with regard to understanding the roots of disparities of #wealth in modern societies (Bellos and Montagu).

2) Copyright overwhelmingly serves #corporate interests – those of tech monopolies, #music #labels, #publishers - while restricting access to knowledge, ideas and the cultural #commons

The #AuthorsAlliance (@AuthorsAlliance) just updated its excellent FAQ on the new #NIH #OpenAccess policy.

Here's the original FAQ from June 6, 2025.
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2025/06/06/the-nih-public-access-policy-qa-for-authors/

Here's the update from July 18, 2025, answering several additional questions.
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2025/07/18/an-update-nih-and-publisher-guidance-what-authors-need-to-know-about-nihs-public-access-policy/

#NelsonMemo #OSTP #Publishers

#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

#PenguinRandomHouse, #HarperCollins, #SimonAndSchuster, #HachetteBookGroup, #MacmillanPublishers, & all other US #publishers: Have you seen the open letter from #authors asking you to not #replace them & their #art with #AI? https://tinyurl.com/zpan8ndt

#COAR (@coar_repositories) is exactly right about what's wrong with the #ACS and #IEEE demands that their authors pay them a fee for the right to deposit their accepted author manuscripts (#AAMs) in #OpenAccess #repositories.
https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/unfair-publisher-fees-for-deposit-into-repositories-highlight-the-need-for-authors-to-exercise-their-rights/

<blockquote>
* The charges applied are completely arbitrary and not based on any real service provision (for example, IEEE applies a fee to authors who want to apply a CC-BY licence to their AAM; and ACM applies a fee for removing the embargo period). They are just another funding stream for publishers that are already making huge profits.
* Deposit fees disadvantage authors who do not have funding to pay
* These fees amount to #DoubleDipping since the final published version of the AAM is made available behind a paywall with no discount
* This practice prevents universities and research organisations from creating an accessible record of their scholarly output.
</blockquote>

And COAR is exactly right about the solution: author #RightsRetention. When authors retain key rights, they don't need publisher permission to deposit their works in OA repositories -- or to use and reuse them in other important ways as well.

PS: See my similar argument on a related ACS move last year.
https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/112688754504974477

#Publishers #Copyright #ScholComm

Many thanks to @AuthorsAlliance for launching this form to collect author experiences under the new federal #OpenAccess policies, including the #NIH policy.
https://www.authorsalliance.org/fedpublicaccess/

"We are particularly interested in learning about:
* Challenges with #publishers whose policies may disallow their uploading of articles to agency-designated #repositories;
* Common questions or points of confusion expressed by grantees;
* Confusion or questions about agency guidance;
* Other technical, legal, or practical barriers to depositing articles."

Note to #librarians: When you encounter authors facing any kind of problem with a fed OA policy (understanding, compliance, publishing), please refer them to this form. The more we document the problems, the more we can facilitate solutions.

#Monitoring #NelsonMemo #OSTP

Update. "#DOGE order leads to journal cancellations by U.S. agricultural library"
https://www.science.org/content/article/doge-order-leads-journal-cancellations-u-s-agricultural-library

"The #USDA on Friday told staff members it has canceled subscriptions carried by its National Agricultural Library as part of a drive by President Donald #Trump’s administration to cut federal spending. The move appears to drop nearly 400 of the library’s roughly 2000 journals, including many prominent in various agricultural subfields —but curiously none from the world’s three largest scientific publishers, all of which are #ForProfit. USDA staff members depicted the move as hasty, indiscriminate slashing…Studies of journal subscription fees indicate that on average, scientific #SocietyPublishers charge less than such for-profit companies."

PS: (1) Of course the best ag research should be #OpenAccess. But that's a goal, not the current reality, and while we work for that goal, policymaking agencies still need access the best research. (2) If efficiency requires budget cuts, why focus the cuts on journals from #nonprofit #publishers, which on average are lower in price and higher in quality?

#Agriculture #DefendResearch #USPol #USPolitics

From DeepSeek to Stargate: How dramatic AI developments will re-shape the copyright landscape

Walled Culture started covering generative AI relatively early, back in October 2022. That’s just two years ago, and yet the technological progress since then has been extraordinary, whatever you think about the other issues gen AI raises. The latest breakthrough is particularly interesting because it has come from China. The site Live Science explains why the new reasoning model […]

#adtech #bubble #chatgpt #china #deepseek #epc #eu #euCopyright #genai #generativeAi #google #investment #licensing #meta #openSource #openai #privacy #publishers #realTimeBidding #rtb #stargate #surveillance #tax #uk

https://walledculture.org/how-dramatic-developments-in-the-world-of-ai-will-re-shape-the-copyright-landscape/

Ana María Cetto "thinks #LatinAmerica could…serve as a model for the Global #North [on #OpenAccess publishing]. This would require a change in mentality and #infrastructure, so #universities would take on the work of scientific publishing instead of #commercial #publishers. If universities in the Global North founded their own #noncommercial #journals and publishing #platforms, they would regain control, Cetto says, both editorially and in terms of money saved."
https://www.science.org/content/article/latin-american-journals-are-open-access-pioneers-now-they-need-audience

#South

#Valve Just Put Game #Publishers On Notice.

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

#Gaming #Steam #Refund #GabeN

Another sign that gold open access was a mistake, and that diamond open access is the future

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is one of the most influential funding bodies in the world. According to one ranking, it is the second largest charitable foundation, and as of 31 December 2023 had an endowment of around $75.2 billion. That makes a shift in its publishing policy hugely important.

An article in Chemical & Engineering […]

#apcs #coalitionS #diamondOa #funding #gatesFoundation #goldOa #peerReview #planS #preprints #publishers #unesco #verixiv

https://walledculture.org/another-sign-that-gold-open-access-was-a-mistake-and-that-diamond-open-access-is-the-future/

"On Feb. 6, Colorado State University Faculty Council passed a resolution to endorse the CSU Libraries’ licensing priorities."
https://source.colostate.edu/faculty-council-endorses-csu-libraries-licensing-priorities/

PS: I just added the CSU resolution to the crowd-sourced #OpenAccessDirectory list of institutional principles for negotiating with publishers.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Institutional_principles_for_negotiating_with_publishers

#Academia #Libraries #Negotiations #Publishers #Universities
@academicchatter

Kudos to UColorado Boulder for its new Resolution in Support of #Libraries #Licensing Priorities. Among other things it supports author #RightsRetention.
https://www.colorado.edu/bfa/sites/default/files/attached-files/bfa-r-1-083023_libraries_licensing_priorities.2_approved.pdf

Also see the announcement and summary.
https://www.colorado.edu/libraries/2023/10/11/cu-boulder-faculty-and-university-libraries-call-equitable-access-information

I've added it to the #OpenAccessDirectory list of institutional principles for negotiating with #publishers.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Institutional_principles_for_negotiating_with_publishers

#Academia
@academicchatter

Big publishing houses often buy out small, independent publishers, just to push them (and their books) into oblivion! The #internetArchive was helping to keep those books from being lost to history!

The End of Progressive Book Publishing in the Age of Monopoly Capital?

Tom Engelhardt 09/28/2022

"After all, like Pantheon, at the moment of its demise, it was a lively, deeply progressive operation, churning out powerful new titles — until, that is, it was essentially shut down when Sara, a miraculous publisher like André, was shown the door along with her staff. Bam! What did it matter that, thanks to her, Metropolitan still occupied a space filled by no other house in mainstream publishing? Nothing obviously, not to Holt, or assumedly Macmillan, the giant American publishing conglomerate of which it was a part, or the German Holtzbrinck Publishing Group that owns Macmillan.

"How strange that we’re in a world where two such publishing houses, among the best and most politically challenging around, could find that there simply was no place for them as progressive publishers in the mainstream. André [Schiffrin], who died in 2013, responded by launching an independent publishing house, #TheNewPress, an admirable undertaking. In terms of the #DispatchBooks I still put out from time to time, I find myself in a similar world, dealing with another adventurous independent publishing outfit, #HaymarketBooks.

"Still, what an eerie mainstream we now inhabit, don’t we?

"I mean, when it comes to what capitalism is doing on this planet of ours, book publishing is distinctly small (even if increasingly mashed) potatoes. After all, we’re talking about a world where giant fossil-fuel companies with still-soaring profits are all too willing to gaslight the public while quite literally burning the place up — or perhaps I mean flooding the place out. (Don’t you wonder sometimes what the CEOs of such companies are going to tell their grandchildren?)."

#Libraries #Publishers #Books #Corporations #Monopoly #Censorship #Copyright #Authors #BookPreservation #History #Culture #SmallPublishers #IndepedentPublishers #ProgressivePublishers

https://www.juancole.com/2022/09/progressive-publishing-monopoly.html

Want to borrow that #ebook from the #library? Sorry, #Amazon won’t let you.

May 10, 2021

"Its #monopoly is stopping public #libraries from lending e-books and audiobooks from Mindy Kaling, Dean Koontz, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Trevor Noah, Andy Weir, Michael Pollan and a whole lot more"

#Libraries #Publishers #Books #Corporations #Monopoly #Censorship #Copyright #Authors #BookPreservation #History #Culture #InternetArchive #IA
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/10/amazon-library-ebook-monopoly/

Hold the presses: Feds say #publishing merger would create #monopoly

by Alexandra Jones / November 2, 2021

"The Department of Justice went to court Tuesday to stop the creation of one large book publisher, 'towering over its rivals,' that would result if Penguin Random House is allowed to merge with Simon and Schuster.

"Just five major publishers control the U.S. publishing industry today, and each regularly offers authors high advances and extensive marketing, as well as editorial support, to create best-selling books. While smaller publishers occasionally sign anticipated top sellers, they often can’t shoulder high author advances required and face greater financial turbulence when such books that don't sell as expected.

"The merger was arranged by the publishing groups’ parent companies last year when Penguin Random House’s owner, German media group Bertelsmann, agreed to buy Simon and Schuster from ViacomCBS. The acquisition would give Penguin Random House access to a barrage of Simon and Schuster’s bestselling authors, such as Stephen King and Bob Woodward, as well as classic titles like 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Fahrenheit 451.'

"'If the world’s largest book publisher is permitted to acquire one of its biggest rivals, it will have unprecedented control over this important industry,' Garland said in a press release rolled out alongside the complaint. 'American authors and consumers will pay the price of this anticompetitive merger – lower advances for authors and ultimately fewer books and less variety for consumers.'"

#Libraries #Publishers #Books #Corporations #Monopoly #Censorship #Copyright #Authors #BookPreservation #History #Culture

Read more: https://www.courthousenews.com/hold-the-presses-feds-say-publishing-merger-would-create-monopoly/

Today, with the lower court decision against the #InternetArchive, the #USA took another step toward complete and total #Fascism. What can you do? TAKE ACTION!

- Stand up for libraries ✊
Stand up for the digital rights of all libraries! Join the Battle for Libraries: https://www.battleforlibraries.com/

- Support the Internet Archive 📚
Support the Internet Archive to continue fighting for libraries in court! Donate at the link below.
https://archive.org/donate

- Stay connected 🔗
Sign up for the Empowering Libraries newsletter for ongoing updates about the lawsuit and the InternetArchive library.
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#Libraries #Publishers #Books #Corporations #Monopoly #DigitalLibraries #Censorship #Copyright #FairUse #PublicCommons #DigitalCommons #Authors #BookPreservation #History #Culture #CDL

Update about the court decision regarding the #InternetArchive

March 25, 2023 by chrisfreeland

"Today’s lower court decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is a blow to all libraries and the communities we serve. This decision impacts libraries across the US who rely on controlled digital lending to connect their patrons with books online. It hurts authors by saying that unfair licensing models are the only way their books can be read online. And it holds back access to information in the digital age, harming all readers, everywhere.

"But it’s not over—we will keep fighting for the traditional right of libraries to own, lend, and preserve books. We will be appealing the judgment and encourage everyone to come together as a community to support libraries against this attack by corporate publishers.

"We will continue our work as a library. This case does not challenge many of the services we provide with digitized books including interlibrary loan, citation linking, access for the print-disabled, text and data mining, purchasing ebooks, and ongoing donation and preservation of books."

#Libraries #Publishers #Books #Corporations #Monopoly #DigitalLibraries #Censorship #Copyright #FairUse #PublicCommons #DigitalCommons #Authors #BookPreservation #History #Culture #CDL

https://blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/the-fight-continues/

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