#publishingcontroversies — Public Fediverse posts
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Netflix, Manga, AI and the Publishing Industry’s Ministry of Truth
From comics to Netflix to AI: how publishing's cycle of panic and embrace tells us everything about the industry's future. A TNPS deep-dive.
The post Netflix, Manga, AI and the Publishing Industry’s Ministry of Truth appeared first on The New Publishing Standard.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2026/04/25/publishing-moral-panic-comics-netflix-ai-orwell/#BookFairs #Comics #KidsReadingCrisis #Manga #PublishingControversies
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When “Cease and Desist” Means “Cease and Think Twice”
A Medium post by Carl Müller Frøland raises important questions about how broad, unspecific legal threats can function as prior restraint - silencing criticism before it reaches the public domain.
The post When “Cease and Desist” Means “Cease and Think Twice” appeared first on The New Publishing Standard.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2026/03/26/corporate-legal-threats-public-discourse-publishing/#PublishingControversies #CeaseandDesist #Publishersresponsibilities
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TNPS 2025 Story of the Year Part 5: From Understanding to Action – Your Publishing House’s AI Roadmap
Your publishing house's AI roadmap: slush pile triage, translation, metadata, narration. Freemium tools, real ROI examples. Start tomorrow morning.
The post TNPS 2025 Story of the Year Part 5: From Understanding to Action – Your Publishing House’s AI Roadmap appeared first on The New Publishing Standard.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2026/03/20/from-understanding-to-action-your-publishing-houses-ai-roadmap/#AI #PublishingBusiness #PublishingControversies #AIinpublishing #HowtouseAIasapublisher
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The Convenient Villain: AI, Job Losses, and the Art of the Blame Shift
AI is the publishing industry's latest scapegoat. But UK author incomes collapsed long before ChatGPT existed. The real villains are hiding in plain sight.
The post The Convenient Villain: AI, Job Losses, and the Art of the Blame Shift appeared first on The New Publishing Standard.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2026/02/23/ai-job-losses-publishing-scapegoat/#AI #PublishingControversies #AIjobs #AItoblame #SocietyofAuthors
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The 2025 TNPS Story of the Year Is A Book!
Nadim Sadek's 'Quiver, don't Quake' reframes AI as creative partner, not threat. Essential reading for…
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/12/21/it-was-inevitable-this-years-tnps-story-of-the-year-would-relate-in-some-way-to-ai-2025-marked-three-years-of-publicly-assessible-ai-a-critical-distinction-i-mentioned-ai-in-publishing-back-in-t/#AI #PublishingControversies #AIinpublishing #NadimSadek #QuiverDontQuake
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More Music Publishers Settle With And Partner With AI. Book Publishers Look The Other Way
Music labels partner with AI platforms through strategic settlements. Book publishers lack leverage. Why safe settlements may not be an option.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/11/27/settlement-trajectory-music-partnerships-book-publishing-leverage/#AI #PublishingBrief #PublishingControversies #AIandbookpublishingprospects #AIandMusciIndustrysettlements
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The Keyword is Dead: How LLM Search Transforms Book Discovery
A deep dive into the seismic shift reshaping how readers find books - and what publishers must do about it
The post The Keyword is Dead: How LLM Search Transforms Book Discovery appeared first on The New Publishing Standard.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/11/14/keyword-dead-llm-search-transforms-book-discovery/#AI #PublishingBrief #PublishingControversies #BookDiscovery #Digitalpublishing
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The Keyword is Dead: How LLM Search Transforms Book Discovery
A deep dive into the seismic shift reshaping how readers find books - and what publishers must do about it
The post The Keyword is Dead: How LLM Search Transforms Book Discovery appeared first on The New Publishing Standard.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/11/14/keyword-dead-llm-search-transforms-book-discovery/#AI #PublishingBrief #PublishingControversies #BookDiscovery #Digitalpublishing
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The Keyword is Dead: How LLM Search Transforms Book Discovery
A deep dive into the seismic shift reshaping how readers find books - and what publishers must do about it
The post The Keyword is Dead: How LLM Search Transforms Book Discovery appeared first on The New Publishing Standard.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/11/14/keyword-dead-llm-search-transforms-book-discovery/#AI #PublishingBrief #PublishingControversies #BookDiscovery #Digitalpublishing
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The Keyword is Dead: How LLM Search Transforms Book Discovery
A deep dive into the seismic shift reshaping how readers find books - and what publishers must do about it
The post The Keyword is Dead: How LLM Search Transforms Book Discovery appeared first on The New Publishing Standard.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/11/14/keyword-dead-llm-search-transforms-book-discovery/#AI #PublishingBrief #PublishingControversies #BookDiscovery #Digitalpublishing
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Beyond Fear: Why Publishing Must Embrace AI as a Tool, Not a Threat
Publishing must move beyond fear to engage thoughtfully with AI. It's a tool, not a threat—and human choices, not technology, determine outcomes.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/08/12/beyond-fear-publishing-must-embrace-ai-as-tool-not-threat/#AI #PublishingBrief #PublishingControversies #AIandpublishing #FearofAIinpublishing
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Reimagining Book Publishing in the AI Era: From Resistance to Renaissance
An exploration of how the book publishing industry might embrace AI-driven transformation as an opportunity for renewal and growth…
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/08/03/reimagining-book-publishing-in-the-ai-era-from-resistance-to-renaissance/#AI #PublishingControversies #AIapocalypse #AIinpublishing #McKinseyAI
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The Sarah J. Maas Model: How Authors Are Bypassing Publishers in the IP Gold Rush
How Sarah J. Maas’s IMG deal signals a seismic shift: authors now bypass publishers to control lucrative IP rights, leaving traditional publishing behind.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/07/01/sarah-j-maas-model-authors-bypassing-publishers-ip-gold-rush/#IPRights #PublishingBrief #PublishingControversies #publishersandIP #SarahJMaasIMGDeal
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How Publishing Lost James Bond and What It Means for the Industry
In the future, Fleming's original James Bond novels may be remembered as historical curiosities rather than the foundation of one of entertainment's most valuable properties.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/06/29/how-publishing-lost-james-bond/#PublishingControversies #JamesBond #JamesBondfilms #JamesBondgame #JamesBondnovels
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Streaming TV Beats Combined Broadcast and Cable – Why Publishing Must Embrace the Inevitable
Why publishing must learn from TV's streaming milestone and embrace AI-powered subscription models before tech disruptors claim the future.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/06/17/streaming-revolution-publishing-embrace-inevitable/#AI #Digitalsubscription #PublishingBrief #PublishingControversies #audiobookstreaming
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The Mattel-OpenAI Partnership: A Wake-Up Call for Trade Publishing
Mattel-OpenAI's AI toy partnership challenges trade publishing to embrace AI for interactive storytelling or risk obsolescence.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/06/16/mattel-openai-partnership-trade-publishing-impact/#AI #ChildrensBooks #PublishingBrief #PublishingControversies #MattelAIpartnership
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AI and the Workforce: Implications for Publishing from PwC’s 2025 Global AI Jobs Barometer
The latest PwC report is bad news for the Luddite Fringe.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/06/07/ai-and-the-workforce-implications-for-publishing-from-pwcs-2025-global-ai-jobs-barometer/#AI #PublishingBrief #PublishingControversies #AIandjobs #AIpublishing
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Amazon is an AI Tech Company. Why Does it Get a Free Pass from the UK’s Publishers Association and the Society of Authors?
Amazon now has nailed its publishing industry AI colours to the mast. We cannot have one rule for Amazon and another for…
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/05/18/amazon-is-an-ai-tech-company-why-does-it-get-a-free-pass-from-the-uks-publishers-association-and-the-society-of-authors/#AI #Amazon #PublishingControversies #UK #AInarration
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What is “western publishing”, anyway?
Trade fiction, academic works, comics, audiobooks and digital serials are all being reimagined- from Tokyo’s manga cafés to Dubai’s audiobook studios. And all too often it is the "west" that is playing catch-up and copy-cat.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/05/13/what-is-western-publishing-anyway/#PublishingBrief #PublishingControversies #Qatar #DohaInternationalBookFair #westernpublishing
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Anime’s Global Ascent: Brazil Offers A Lesson for Publishers
Publishers need to re-evaluate the issue of piracy. If content was legally unavailable in Brazil then, ethics aside, publishers suffered no material loss by manga and anime being distributed, and years on are reaping rewards that…
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/04/13/animes-global-ascent-brazil-offers-a-lesson-for-publishers/#Brazil #GlobalPublishing #PublishingControversies #Anime #Brazilanime
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