#publishers — Public Fediverse posts

📚️ #IndependentPublishers to follow:

@canongatebooks - Award-winning independent publisher, Margaret Atwood, Yann Martel, Irvine Welsh etc
@bwjewishhistory - Small indie Jewish history press
@ArachnidPress - Indie publishers based in Scotland, thriller & mystery fiction
@WTPress - Indie sci-fi & fantasy press in Wales
@ododopress - Speculative fiction press based in Uganda
@StelliformPress - Indie literary press, sci-fi, fantasy, horror on environmental crisis

#Publishers #Books #Fiction

Sunday, August 2, 2026

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Monday, July 27, 2026

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

ICYMI: Reddit and USA Today face Google exit as search traffic drops 28%: Reddit's 60 million dollar Google deal expires soon as Politico and Reuters both weigh crawler blocks. What breaks in search if premium publishers walk away? https://ppc.land/reddit-and-usa-today-face-google-exit-as-search-traffic-drops-28/ #Reddit #Google #SearchTraffic #DigitalMarketing #Publishers

#Cloudflare will block #AIcrawlers from ad-supported pages starting 15 September, unless site owners opt in. This move aims to address the issue of #AI companies using #webcontent for #training without compensating #publishers, potentially harming the open web. Cloudflare is also introducing a “#PayPerUse” system to compensate publishers when their content influences AI answers. https://thenextweb.com/news/cloudflare-block-ai-crawlers-pay-publishers?eicker.news #tech #media #news

European publishers sue Google for €640 million.

A group of over 20 European media companies is suing Google for 640 million euros in damages due to alleged violations of EU competition law in the advertising market.

The media groups refer to a fine imposed on Google by the European Commission for violations of competition law in the advertising market.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260606-european-publishers-sue-google-for-640-million?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Google #Publishers #Legal #Court #CompetitionLaw #EU #Advertising #Tech

Why exactly are we even still handing these #AAA #publishers money for their #crippleware anyway? Just give me the game I paid for and don't annoy me with your anti-features all the time. (In fact I as the player should get paid for having to deal with your bullshit at this point)

I did this "online connectivity" thing back then with "The Settlers 7" from #Ubisoft and I'm not doing it again. It's just annoying and sucks. Nobody deserves to get paid for that "experience".

As numerous posts on this blog have emphasised, the underlying idea of open access (OA) – allowing anyone to read and share published academic research for free – is great in principle, but in practice has failed in important ways. That’s because traditional academic publishers have subverted the open access model to such an extent that the costs for research institutions of publishing in […]

#Searchtraffic to #smallpublishers has dropped 60% over two years, significantly impacting their ability to build alternative #trafficsources. Larger #publishers are finding success with direct and internal traffic, while news and media sites are seeing growth in #email and #app #referrals. The impact of #AIchatbot referrals varies by site type. https://www.searchenginejournal.com/search-referral-traffic-down-60-for-small-publishers-data-shows/569959/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

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 […]

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/

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/12/09/ai-search-results-eu-opens-antitrust-probe-into-googles-use-of-publisher-content-xcxwbn/

AI Search Results: EU Opens Antitrust Probe into Google’s Use of Publisher Content

#AI #AISearch #Antitrust #Google #EU #Alphabet #BigTech #Regulation #OpenWeb #Publishers #GenAI #CompetitionLaw #TechPolicy #DigitalMarketsAct #GoogleSearch #YouTube #DataPrivacy

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

#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

»As #AI kills #searchtraffic, #Google launches #Offerwall.« Offerwall allows #publishers to offer readers various ways to access content, including micropayments, surveys, and watching ads. https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/26/as-ai-kills-search-traffic-google-launches-offerwall-to-boost-publisher-revenue/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

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

Steal This Book.pdf (PDFy mirror)

via the #InternetArchive

Steal This Book (in PDF format) while you still can! 😈 🏴‍☠️

Original filename: Steal This Book.pdf
URL: https://pdf.yt/d/TNlDHryRIk4DXKAU
Upload date: December 12, 2014 05:30:26

https://archive.org/details/pdfy-TNlDHryRIk4DXKAU

#Anarchists #AnarchistHistory #Publishers #Books #Corporations #Monopoly #Censorship #Copyright #History #Culture #SmallPublishers #InternetArchive #IA #IndependentPublishers #ProgressivePublishers #AbbieHoffman #StealThisBook

Steal This Book (in PDF format) while you still can! 😈 🏴‍☠️

Original filename: Steal This Book.pdf
URL: https://pdf.yt/d/TNlDHryRIk4DXKAU
Upload date: December 12, 2014 05:30:26

#Anarchists #AnarchistHistory #Publishers #Books #Corporations #Monopoly #Censorship #Copyright #History #Culture #SmallPublishers #InternetArchive #IA #IndependentPublishers #ProgressivePublishers #AbbieHoffman #StealThisBook

https://archive.org/details/pdfy-TNlDHryRIk4DXKAU

How ironic. The publisher reprinting Abbie Hoffman's "Steal This Book" was one of the ones suing the #InternetArchive -- #Hatchette Book Group!

"Still Notorious, Radical, and Revolutionary 50 Years Later.

"A survival guide from one of the greatest creative organizers of the 20th century—now with a new foreword by co-conspirator, Lisa Fithian.

"Throughout the 1960's and 70's, Abbie Hoffman criss-crossed the country, ferreting out alternative ways of getting by in America—some illegal and all radical. Causing scandals with its advice on how to Survive!, Fight!, and Liberate! in the 'prison that is Amerika,' Steal This Book is a revolutionary's manual to running a guerilla movement, as well as getting free food, housing, transportation, medical care, and more.

"This anniversary edition gives a new generation an insider's view into the movements of the sixties and seventies. While many of the holes in the system that Abbie exposed have since been plugged, the spirit of revolution, the dedication to opposing injustice, and the passion of creative activism continue to inspire today."

#Anarchists #AnarchistHistory #Publishers #Books #Corporations #Monopoly #Censorship #Copyright #History #Culture #SmallPublishers #IndependentPublishers #IA #ProgressivePublishers

I used to have a copy of Abbie Hoffman's "Steal This Book" (gifted to me by an poet activist buddy) but someone stole it from me! Appropriate!

"Steal This Book is a book written by Abbie Hoffman. Written in 1970 and published in 1971, the book exemplified the counterculture of the sixties. The book sold more than a quarter of a million copies between April and November 1971. The number of copies that were stolen is unknown.

"The book is, in the style of the counterculture, mainly focused on ways to fight against the government and against corporations in any way possible. The book is written in the form of a guide to the youth. Hoffman, a political and social activist himself, used many of his own activities as the inspiration for some of his advice in Steal This Book."

#Anarchists #AnarchistHistory #Publishers #Books #Corporations #Monopoly #Censorship #Copyright #History #Culture #SmallPublishers #IndependentPublishers #ProgressivePublishers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steal_This_Book

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