#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

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

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/

TorrentFreak: Anna’s Archive Hit With $19.5m Default Judgment and Global Domain Takedown Order. “A coalition of thirteen major publishers has won a massive $19.5 million default judgment against shadow library Anna’s Archive. A New York federal judge fully approved the publishers’ requests, issuing a broad permanent injunction that orders more than twenty specific global registries, hosts, […]

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

TorrentFreak: Publishers Seek $19.5 Million and Domain Takedown Order Against Anna’s Archive. “A group of high-profile publishing companies is seeking a $19.5 million default judgment against shadow library Anna’s Archive. The proposed order comes with an injunction that would compel more than twenty named international domain registries, hosts, and service providers, including Cloudflare and […]

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

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 […]

RE: https://aus.social/@perkinsy/116272406544671950

A book is the sum of its parts! 😀
#bookasartifact #ancienttexts #books #libraries #histodons #bookstodon
#bookeditions #publishers
@perkinsy

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I trust #InternetArchive with government documents more than I do the government! (Or #AI for that matter...)

Internet Archive is now an official #USGovernment document #library

by Steve Dent
Fri, July 25, 2025

"The US Senate has granted the Internet Archive federal depository status, making it officially part of an 1,100-library network that gives the public access to government documents, #KQED reported. The designation was made official in a letter from California Senator Alex Padilla to the Government Publishing Office that oversees the network. 'The Archive's digital-first approach makes it the perfect fit for a modern #FederalDepositoryLibrary, expanding access to federal government publications amid an increasingly digital landscape,' he wrote.

"Established by Congress in 1813, the Federal Depository Library Program is designed to help the public access government records. Each congressional member can designate up to two libraries, which include government information like budgets, a code of federal regulations, presidential documents, economic reports and census data.

"With its new status, the Internet Archive will be gain improved access to government materials, founder Brewster Kahle said in a statement. 'By being part of the program itself, it just gets us closer to the source of where the materials are coming from, so that it’s more reliably delivered to the Internet Archive, to then be made available to the patrons of the Internet Archive or partner libraries.' The Archive could also help other #libraries move toward #DigitalPreservation, given its experience in that area.

"It's some good news for the site which has faced legal battles of late. It was sued by major #publishers over loans of #DigitalBooks during the #Coronavirus epidemic and was forced by a federal court in 2023 to remove more than half a million titles. And more recently, major music labels filed lawsuits over its #Great78Project that strove to preserve #78RPM records. If it loses that case it could owe more than $700 million damages and possibly be forced to shut down.

"The new designation likely won't aid its legal problems, but it does affirm the site's importance to the public. 'In October, the Internet Archive will hit a milestone of 1 trillion pages,' Kahle wrote. 'And that 1 trillion is not just a testament to what libraries are able to do, but actually the sharing that people and governments have to try and create an #EducatedPopulace.' "

https://tech.yahoo.com/general/articles/internet-archive-now-official-us-123036550.html

#BigPublishing #Archives #BigMusic #CulturalPreservation #DigitalPreservation #WaybackMachine #Archiving #FairUse #Archives #Capitalism #Corporatism #FightForTheFuture #EmpoweringLibraries

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

"#Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of #AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket."
https://fortune.com/2025/07/16/delta-moves-toward-eliminating-set-prices-in-favor-of-ai-that-determines-how-much-you-personally-will-pay-for-a-ticket/

PS: Lots to hate here. But suppose the model spreads to other industries. (Yes, this is sci-fi for now. But let your imagination run free.) Imagine that academic #publishers used this model to set #APCs. What would AI tools infer from your institutional affiliation (about available resources), first name (about gender), surname (about ethnicity), submitted manuscript (about guesstimated quality), and past publications (about specialization, reputation, impact)? What odd variables would it factor in, such as the number of Trump-banned words (for political protection) or the number of citations to that journal (for #JIF)? How would it use all this information? Would it lower the #APC for you, to bring you in, or raise it, to price you out?

For airlines or journals, would there be any reason to stick with the model if it didn't raise net revenues?

#Economics #Prices #ScholComm

The #NIH just announced that it will "cap how much #publishers can charge NIH-supported scientists to make their research findings publicly accessible."
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-crack-down-excessive-publisher-fees-publicly-funded-research

We don't yet know the cap or how NIH will calculate or enforce it.

#APCs #DefendResearch #GoldOA #OpenAccess #ScholComm #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

#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

University of Michigan Press Announces Key #Accessibility Updates to the #Fulcrum Platform https://press.umich.edu/Blog/2025/06/University-of-Michigan-Press-Announces-Key-Accessibility-Updates-to-the-Fulcrum-Platform #publishers #scholcomm

#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. "Since 2017, the #UK has mandated organisations employing more than 250 people to publicly report their annual #gender #PayGap…Every science publisher pays men more than women. In 2024, the lowest median pay gap favouring men was 9.5% (#SpringerNature), followed by #Sage (13.3%), #Wiley (17.7%), and #Informa (formerly Taylor & Francis) (22.7%). #Elsevier remains an outlier in the magnitude of its gender pay gap and in the lack of progress. Eight years ago Elsevier stood out among publishers, with a median pay gap in 2017 of 40.4% in favour of men over women in its UK business…Elsevier’s median pay gap for 2024 is 32.8%, maintaining its position as worst performer among peers over all eight years of mandatory reporting."
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0004673

#Publishers #ScholComm

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

#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/

Steal This Book.pdf (PDFy mirror)

via the #InternetArchive

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

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

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

0/ I've been asked to repost this 2019 Twitter thread here on #Mastodon. Glad to oblige.
https://twitter.com/petersuber/status/1207683104971743232

#Markets #Monopoly #OAintheUSA #Publishers
🧵

@taco

All of this was both #predictable, and #predicted. From the moment C-18 was announced, it was obvious to many, many people that this would have exactly these negative effects on #Canadian #publishers/#sites.

But no-one listened. In fact, most of them still refuse to listen.

I'm tired of #politicians preening for the cameras without a care in the world for the #consequences of their actions - which mainly fall on others, not them.

#C18 #stupidity #media #Canada

https://www.battleforlibraries.com/
is an unfortunately necessary initiative to fend off #publishers threatening #libraries to do their work.Not only the work of #internetarchive is at stake here.

Support #battleforlibraries of you can.

https://www.battleforlibraries.com/
is an unfortunately necessary initiative to fend off #publishers threatening #libraries to do their work.Not only the work of #internetarchive is at stake here.

Support #battleforlibraries of you can.

https://www.battleforlibraries.com/
is an unfortunately necessary initiative to fend off #publishers threatening #libraries to do their work.Not only the work of #internetarchive is at stake here.

Support #battleforlibraries of you can.

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

Original filename: Steal This Book.pdf
URL: https://pdf.yt/d/TNlDHryRIk4DXKAU
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#Anarchists #AnarchistHistory #Publishers #Books #Corporations #Monopoly #Censorship #Copyright #History #Culture #SmallPublishers #InternetArchive #IA #IndependentPublishers #ProgressivePublishers #AbbieHoffman #StealThisBook

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

Another issue with being perhaps a little #Naive: I'm unclear on what planet it's okay for a national #PressWatchdog to hobnob with the top dog #Publishers at private dinner parties hosted by said #publishers : how in heaven do they clear the decks for objective decisions if they socialise with those they are meant to #Police? https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/dec/19/rupert-murdoch-ipso-chair-despite-complaints-jeremy-clarkson-meghan #Horrid #JeremyClarkson
#Protect #MeghanMarkle and all #Women #Equality #Democracy

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

Out Now! Down and Out in Paris and London was #Orwell’s first published full-length work, read by the incredible Jonathan Keeble. 🎉👌🙏 #actors #narrators #agents #publishers #audible #books #book #actor #audio #reading #bookworm #fiction #instagram #audiobooklove #bibliophile #voiceover #library #audiblebooks #bookish #bookaddict #bookadon #classics

Books v. Cigarettes #discuss @soundsnoble reads George Orwell, beautifully. Thank you, Peter! 🎉 🙏 #audiobook #actors #narrators #agents #publishers #audible #books #book #actor #booklover #audio #reading #bookworm #bookstagrammer #booknerd #fiction #instagram #audiobooklove #audiobooks #audiobook #bibliophile #voiceover #audiblebooks #bookish #actor #bookaddict #audiobooknarrator #classics #bookadon #bookstadon