#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

Monday, July 27, 2026

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

Search Engine Roundtable: Large Publishers Strongly Considering Blocking Google Search Completely. “Several large publishers are strongly considering blocking Google Search entirely after clicks from Google Search have continued to decline, and the exchange of value in having Google consume its content is no longer translating into enough clicks from Google Search.”

Search Engine Land: Condé Nast expects search to become a single-digit of its traffic. “Condé Nast now plans its business ‘as if search is zero’ after years of Google algorithm updates and AI Overviews reducing visits to publisher websites. That’s according to CEO Roger Lynch, who was interviewed on TBPN, the tech media network that bills itself as ‘technology’s daily show’ and was […]

I don't know who needs to know, but:

#Ingram lets #Authors opt out of selling their #books to AI companies:

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/99453-ingram-offers-to-not-sell-books-to-ai-companies.html

Opt-out form: https://www.ingramcontent.com/page/ai-opt-out

This is only for #print books since AI companies are now buying print books to scan to legally use the content for #LLM training under "fair use."

#AI #AICompany #Publishers #Copyright #OptOut

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

#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/

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* 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

Opinion piece in Scientific American by Ivan Oransky & Adam Marcus of the blog Retraction Watch says it's time for #science #publishers & #universities to stop delaying when it's time to #retract #journal #articles that contain #SpeciousData & #ManipulatedImages: https://tinyurl.com/5y4b433e . #Bookstodon