AI

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.

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.

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

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.

It’s rumored that a growing number of AI companies are now buying and scanning books to train their models.

Hachette Book Group and Cengage are joining a 2023 lawsuit against Google for using books to train its AI model known as Gemini.

There's a twist: the author says sales of his books on Amazon have gone up as a result of the unauthorized YouTube recordings.

Policies that prohibit AI use are easy enough to create, but they are not necessarily easy to enforce.

To encourage transparency among creators and audience, one writer suggests a simple, two-category system for labeling AI use in works of art.