#publishers — Public Fediverse posts

Chrome puts publishers' ad loads on public record with 4 new metrics: Only sites naming an authorized seller in ads.txt are measured, at the 75th percentile of page views. No thresholds exist yet, so how will buyers use the data? https://ppc.land/chrome-puts-publishers-ad-loads-on-public-record-with-4-new-metrics/ #Chrome #Advertising #DigitalMarketing #AdTech #Publishers

📚️ #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

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

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/05/30/google-adds-preferred-sources-to-ai-overviews-ai-mode-xcxwbn/

Google has expanded its Preferred Sources feature into AI Overviews and AI Mode, highlighting chosen publishers inside AI answers as search traffic pressure grows.

#AI #PreferredSources #AIOverviews #AIMode #GoogleSearch #Google #AISearch #Publishers #SearchEngines

"The Belgian #Competition Authority announced Friday it has launched a formal investigation into #Google’s online #advertising business, over suspicions that the search giant may be in breach of the law.

The agency said that it would look into whether local #publishers and advertisers have become so reliant on Google’s infrastructure that they are left with no viable alternatives." - via Politico Europe

#antitrust #gatekeepers #belgium

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/

There’s an article in the #journal Nature with the headline “Put pressure on #publishers to follow best practice — #external #regulation is the answer.” I think that’s a grand idea for #reducing, as the author says, “#integrity issues that are #harming the #scientific #literature.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04099-w

There’s an article in the #journal Nature with the headline “Put pressure on #publishers to follow best practice — #external #regulation is the answer.” I think that’s a grand idea for #reducing, as the author says, “#integrity issues that are #harming the #scientific #literature.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04099-w

There’s an article in the #journal Nature with the headline “Put pressure on #publishers to follow best practice — #external #regulation is the answer.” I think that’s a grand idea for #reducing, as the author says, “#integrity issues that are #harming the #scientific #literature.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04099-w

There’s an article in the #journal Nature with the headline “Put pressure on #publishers to follow best practice — #external #regulation is the answer.” I think that’s a grand idea for #reducing, as the author says, “#integrity issues that are #harming the #scientific #literature.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04099-w

There’s an article in the #journal Nature with the headline “Put pressure on #publishers to follow best practice — #external #regulation is the answer.” I think that’s a grand idea for #reducing, as the author says, “#integrity issues that are #harming the #scientific #literature.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04099-w

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

Clockss: Digital preservation services run by academic publishers and libraries

https://clockss.org/

#HackerNews #Clockss #Digital #Preservation #Academic #Publishers #Libraries

More evidence catching #publishers at gaming their journal impact factor (#JIF).
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03771

"Sneaked references are references registered in the metadata of publications without being listed in reference section or in the full text of the actual publications where they ought to be found. We document here 80,205 references sneaked in metadata of the International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology (#IJISRT). These sneaked references are registered with Crossref and all cite -- thus benefit -- this same journal."

#FakeCitations #Misconduct #ScholComm

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

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

Courts Are Coming for #DigitalLibraries

A federal court recently said the #InternetArchive is not protected by #FairUseDoctrine.

C.J. Ciaramella | From the December 2024 issue

"In September, a federal appeals court dealt a major blow to the Internet Archive—one of the largest online repositories of #FreeBooks, media, and software—in a #copyright case with significant implications for #publishers, #libraries, and #readers.

"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit upheld a lower court ruling that found the Internet Archive's huge, digitized lending library of copyrighted books was
not covered by the 'fair use' doctrine and infringed on the rights of publishers.

"Agreeing with the Archive's interpretation of fair use 'would significantly narrow—if not entirely eviscerate—copyright owners' exclusive right to prepare derivative works,' the 2nd Circuit ruled. 'Were we to approve [Internet Archive's] use of the works, there would be little reason for consumers or libraries to pay publishers for content they could access for free.'"

https://reason.com/2024/11/10/courts-are-coming-for-digital-libraries/

#OpenLibraries #Libraries #PublicDomain #DigitalArchives #WaybackMachine #ILoveInternetArchive #MemoryHole #VanishingCulture #CulturePreservation #DigitalPreservation #DigitalLibraries #CorporatePublishing #BigPublishing #PublishingMonopolies

The link tax’s failure to deliver meaningful benefits is a lesson for the copyright industry

It seems so long ago that people were trying to stop the worst aspects of the EU Copyright Directive. It was quite a battle, as Chapter 6 of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) recounts in detail. The final legislation was passed in March 2019, but it is important not simply to accept what happened and move on. The copyright industry used many […]

#article15 #copybuzz #euCopyrightDirective #genai #generativeAi #germany #googleTax #journalists #linkTax #lobbyists #newspapers #publishers

https://walledculture.org/the-link-taxs-failure-to-deliver-meaningful-benefits-is-a-lesson-for-the-copyright-industry/

This is sparking interesting discussions. https://www.wired.com/story/perplexity-is-a-bullshit-machine/ Hallucinations and “bullshitting” are definitely an AI thing, I’d probably say it’s their best feature… But Wired’s article focuses on an important topic, scraping content without permission, ignoring robot.txt among other things. Perplexity is not the first and won’t be the last doing this and it definitely causes harm to publishers. The question is: “Why is this happening”? It’s not just because AIs need more accurate sources (instead of making stuff up), but imho it’s because finding the right content has become increasingly challenging, search engines are dominated by SEO practices and search results are disappointing at best. News sites, obviously in need of getting some revenues, are paywalling everything. In many fora, sites like archive.is and unpaywall extensions are often praised under the “free the information” slogan, RSS feeds kind of play a role there too, because in many cases they don’t drive people to visit the original websites. I think this is not much different than what AIs are doing now, and I’m not saying this is legal or ethical, it’s just a fact.
So, my question is: is the ball on the court of AIs, needing to be regulated, or is it on the publishers’, to identify other ways of getting revenues out of this?
#AI #Hallucinations #ContentScraping #SEO #Paywalls #AIRegulation #News #Publishers #Ethics #searchengine #perplexity #chatgpt

This is sparking interesting discussions. https://www.wired.com/story/perplexity-is-a-bullshit-machine/ Hallucinations and “bullshitting” are definitely an AI thing, I’d probably say it’s their best feature… But Wired’s article focuses on an important topic, scraping content without permission, ignoring robot.txt among other things. Perplexity is not the first and won’t be the last doing this and it definitely causes harm to publishers. The question is: “Why is this happening”? It’s not just because AIs need more accurate sources (instead of making stuff up), but imho it’s because finding the right content has become increasingly challenging, search engines are dominated by SEO practices and search results are disappointing at best. News sites, obviously in need of getting some revenues, are paywalling everything. In many fora, sites like archive.is and unpaywall extensions are often praised under the “free the information” slogan, RSS feeds kind of play a role there too, because in many cases they don’t drive people to visit the original websites. I think this is not much different than what AIs are doing now, and I’m not saying this is legal or ethical, it’s just a fact.
So, my question is: is the ball on the court of AIs, needing to be regulated, or is it on the publishers’, to identify other ways of getting revenues out of this?
#AI #Hallucinations #ContentScraping #SEO #Paywalls #AIRegulation #News #Publishers #Ethics #searchengine #perplexity #chatgpt

This is sparking interesting discussions. https://www.wired.com/story/perplexity-is-a-bullshit-machine/ Hallucinations and “bullshitting” are definitely an AI thing, I’d probably say it’s their best feature… But Wired’s article focuses on an important topic, scraping content without permission, ignoring robot.txt among other things. Perplexity is not the first and won’t be the last doing this and it definitely causes harm to publishers. The question is: “Why is this happening”? It’s not just because AIs need more accurate sources (instead of making stuff up), but imho it’s because finding the right content has become increasingly challenging, search engines are dominated by SEO practices and search results are disappointing at best. News sites, obviously in need of getting some revenues, are paywalling everything. In many fora, sites like archive.is and unpaywall extensions are often praised under the “free the information” slogan, RSS feeds kind of play a role there too, because in many cases they don’t drive people to visit the original websites. I think this is not much different than what AIs are doing now, and I’m not saying this is legal or ethical, it’s just a fact.
So, my question is: is the ball on the court of AIs, needing to be regulated, or is it on the publishers’, to identify other ways of getting revenues out of this?
#AI #Hallucinations #ContentScraping #SEO #Paywalls #AIRegulation #News #Publishers #Ethics #searchengine #perplexity #chatgpt

This is sparking interesting discussions. https://www.wired.com/story/perplexity-is-a-bullshit-machine/ Hallucinations and “bullshitting” are definitely an AI thing, I’d probably say it’s their best feature… But Wired’s article focuses on an important topic, scraping content without permission, ignoring robot.txt among other things. Perplexity is not the first and won’t be the last doing this and it definitely causes harm to publishers. The question is: “Why is this happening”? It’s not just because AIs need more accurate sources (instead of making stuff up), but imho it’s because finding the right content has become increasingly challenging, search engines are dominated by SEO practices and search results are disappointing at best. News sites, obviously in need of getting some revenues, are paywalling everything. In many fora, sites like archive.is and unpaywall extensions are often praised under the “free the information” slogan, RSS feeds kind of play a role there too, because in many cases they don’t drive people to visit the original websites. I think this is not much different than what AIs are doing now, and I’m not saying this is legal or ethical, it’s just a fact.
So, my question is: is the ball on the court of AIs, needing to be regulated, or is it on the publishers’, to identify other ways of getting revenues out of this?
#AI #Hallucinations #ContentScraping #SEO #Paywalls #AIRegulation #News #Publishers #Ethics #searchengine #perplexity #chatgpt

Excellent news. #UQP is one of the best #publishers in the country, leading the way tbh.