#societyofauthors — Public Fediverse posts
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UK Comics Are Booming. So Why Does The Creatives Camp Want a Bailout?
The UK comics market hit record sales of £78.7m in 2025. So why does the Comics Creators Report 2026 read like a sector in crisis? Mark Williams examines the assumptions.
The post UK Comics Are Booming. So Why Does The Creatives Camp Want a Bailout? appeared first on The New Publishing Standard.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2026/05/14/uk-comics-are-booming-so-why-does-the-creatives-camp-want-a-bailout/ -
My books are in the Human Authored Database!
https://humanauthored.co.uk/The Human Authored logo helps readers see at a glance whether a book is a genuine expression of human creativity, or if it has been machine-generated by a Large Language Model (trained without permission on the copyrighted work of humans, including mine).
If you’re a member of the UK Society of Authors, you can register your books for free.
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Looking forward to launching a more politically and environmentally responsible set of badges.
They’re designed as a creative and critical response to the extractive, exploitative and dehumanizing logics that lie behind the idea of putting a logo on #books to certify they were written by #humans - such as the new scheme launched by the UK’s Society of Authors.
Rather than reinforcing a simplistic human vs nonhuman divide, the project asks what kinds of #labour, resources and #infrastructure are being obscured by these kinds of labels.
#DefundCulture #SettlerViolence #environment #ai #societyofauthors
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@cstross
Interesting! As a member of the #SocietyOfAuthors, I commend my trade union!#BrettScott launched his similar badge — which I include with my online writing — over a year ago with this brilliant essay:
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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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News Summary: Amazon Expands Kindle Colorsoft Line; WeTransfer Terms Raise AI Concerns
This time last year, Amazon launched the Kindle Colorsoft. It was the first sign in quite some time that the company hadn’t given up on specialist e-readers, and its success at the checkout was one of the more notable stories from last Prime Day.
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/kindle-colorsoft/#AItrainingconcerns #Amazonereaders #authorrights #KindleColorsoft #SocietyofAuthors
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The Society of Authors issues a statement in line with other creatives about the use of author's work being appropriated by AI and tech companies (spurred by the increasingly awful Labour govt murmuring about allowing more AI to steal our works) https://societyofauthors.org/2024/12/16/creative-rights-in-ai-coalition-calls-on-government-to-protect-copyright-as-ai-policy-develops/
#copyright #AI #CreatorsRights #books #bookstodon #SocietyOfAuthors #livres #CreativeRightsInAICoalition
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More than 200 authors renew call for Baillie Gifford to divest from fossil fuel https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/15/authors-baillie-gifford-fossil-fuel #Palestinianterritories #Fossilfueldivestment #SocietyofAuthors #Israel-Gazawar #SallyRooney #Environment #NaomiKlein #Culture #Books #Gaza
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Gaza vote divides Society of Authors after call to condemn Israeli military action https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/03/gaza-vote-society-of-authors-after-call-to-condemn-israeli-military-action #SocietyofAuthors #Israel-Gazawar #KamilaShamsie #GuyGunaratne #Fossilfuels #Environment #Culture #UKnews #Books
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Gaza vote divides Society of Authors after call to condemn Israeli military action https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/03/gaza-vote-society-of-authors-after-call-to-condemn-israeli-military-action #SocietyofAuthors #Israel-Gazawar #KamilaShamsie #GuyGunaratne #Fossilfuels #Environment #Culture #UKnews #Books
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Society of Authors are holding a meeting in May on several important topics.
A big one is that they are proposing that they say NOTHING & do NOTHING about the conflict in Gaza. If you are a member, like myself, you can register to vote in the meeting & say you wish them to do otherwise.
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Since it looks like I need to get comfy here, I would like to say thank you and congratulations to the members of both #NationalTrust and #SocietyofAuthors for handily seeing off the transphobes and history deniers. And to the media. Are you going to highlight those wins as frequently as you promoted the attacks?
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I find the #SocietyofAuthors outcome unexpectedly cheering, because (a) the Clanchy affair was a horrible example of the RW British press putting a huge coordinated effort into undermining anti-racist action, & demonising people of colour for making legit complaints, and (b) the anti-trans stuff, also enthusiastically promulgated by the said RW press. The British people, by and large, are neither as racist or as transphobic as the impression you get online.
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Ooh my fancy #SocietyofAuthors membership pack has arrived. Need to get over my impostor syndrome though! Look forward to joining the AGM next week. I will be voting against *those* two motions
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📬 Amazon ändert seine Rückgaberichtlinie für E-Books
#EBooks #Amazon #Kindle #KindleRückgaberichtlinie #LissaKessler #SocietyofAuthors #TheAuthorsGuild https://tarnkappe.info/artikel/e-books/amazon-aendert-seine-rueckgaberichtlinie-fuer-e-books-256405.html