#publishers — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #publishers, aggregated by home.social.
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As an #editor employed by 3 different #publishers in the 1980s & 1990s, I'm happy to learn that #employees of Univ. of Chicago Press & of Hachette Book Group voted to #unionize!🏆This is part of a #labor #movement across the #industry. https://lithub.com/both-university-of-chicago-press-and-hachette-book-group-have-voted-to-unionize/
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#PenguinRandomHouse is suing #OpenAI, alleging its chatbot #ChatGPT violated #copyright by reproducing content from the Coconut the Little Dragon series. The lawsuit claims ChatGPT generated text and images indistinguishable from the original, including a cover and blurb. This case could set a precedent for other #publishers regarding #AIgeneratedcontent. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/31/penguin-sue-openai-chatgpt-german-childrens-book-kokosnuss?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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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 […]
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Search eats internet: Google's AI overviews face EU scrutiny.
AI Overviews shift the value exchange, letting Google take more content while sending less traffic back to publishers.
#Google #AI #EU #DigitalMarketsActDMA #Tech #Media #Publishers #AIOverviews #Business
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Cloudflare has unveiled AI Labyrinth, a system that misleads unauthorized AI crawling bots by trapping them in auto-generated content mazes.
#AI #Cloudflare #AILabyrinth #AITraining #WebScraping #BotDetection #GenAI #WebSecurity #Copyright #Publishers #Web
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A German conglomerate, Bertelsmann, acquired Random House in 1998, and, under Bertelsmann, Random House merged with Penguin, one of the other big six #publishers, in 2013. Through these acquisitions and mergers, historically independent houses have become Penguin Random House properties, among them Ballantine, Bantam, Berkley, Crown, Dell, Dial, DK, Doubleday, Dutton, Knopf, New American Library, Putnam, Viking-and Pantheon. The books available to us today are products of the #conglomerate era.
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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
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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
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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/
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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!
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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
