AI

News Corp, parent company of HarperCollins and the Wall Street Journal, is negotiating deals with tech companies, seeking licensing income.

This latest AI lawsuit seeks class action status against Meta for pirating millions of books to train Meta’s LLM, Llama.

The Guild has consolidated all AI-related contract clauses—existing ones and new provisions—on a dedicated page on its website.

The guidelines address usage, disclosure, and tips on understanding and managing AI risks.

Their statement is in response to a report that some publishing professionals are feeding manuscripts into AI without explicit permission from authors.

Librarians are managing AI’s real-world effects, making them publishing’s early warning system on reliability, trust, and the limits of AI literacy.

The announcement is due to demand from authors—and also increasingly from stores and sales reps who are asking them to take a strong stance.

Based on conversations at London Book Fair, some editors are using AI to generate summaries of manuscripts—which raises numerous questions.

HarperCollins-owned Harlequin announced a partnership with Dashverse to produce animated microdramas inspired by their romance titles.

After being alerted by a reader, the Times severed its relationship with the reviewer, Alex Preston, and added a notice to the review.

Authors were not consulted and likely don’t have much say over the matter, but they will receive royalties from the videos.

Hachette canceled Shy Girl after suspected AI use, raising questions about editorial oversight, industry standards, and the future of AI detection in publishing.

When Hachette pulled Mia Ballard’s Shy Girl from publication due to suspected AI usage, the initial evidence arose from readers’ analyses.

Some believe we’re in for a decade or more of uncertainty surrounding this issue—and lots of litigation to keep lawyers busy.

Apparently OpenAI wants to devote its time to other areas, and the app required too many computational resources.

Attorneys’ fees have dropped from $300 million (20% of the award) to $187.5 million (12.5% of the award), leaving more for authors.

Everything writers need to know about AI, copyright, and current case law, in one regularly updated, fact-based guide.

The Authors Guild has expanded its human-authorship certification program to all authors. It verifies author identity, but not whether the author used AI in the work.

The popular editing service has integrated an “Expert Review” feature that offers advice attributed to countless well-known personalities.

The event is founded by Adam Hyde, who focuses on open-source publishing technology and publishing workflows.

We review Request the Full, an AI service for writers who want to gain a realistic sense of whether their work is ready to query.

A heads up to author-publishers, small publishers, or even sizable publishers that may not realize they have unclaimed books in the database.

One book coach wondered whether an AI tool, trained on his own archive of advice, could answer authors’ questions as well as he could.

The romance market is the place to look for early signs of what the future may hold, thanks to voracious readers and hefty profits to be made.

In addition to pirating ebooks, they bought print books from wholesalers and used book retailers, including Ingram and Baker & Taylor.