Pellerin questions lawfulness of subscription model

French culture minister Fleur Pellerin has asked the book mediator for a opinion on whether Kindle Unlimited and other subscriptions for unlimited access to ebooks infringes the law in France. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins to allow tech firms to use its books to train AI models

Some nonfiction backlist titles will be used to train artificial intelligence with authors’ permissionPublisher HarperCollins will allow some of its titles to be used to train AI models, with the permission of authors.The company “has reached an agreement with an artificial intelligence... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2024-11-19 16:24:59 UTC ]
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Amazon Music Adds Monthly Audible Title Access to Subscription Service

As of today, subscribers to Amazon Music Unlimited in the U.S., UK, and Canada can now listen to one audiobook per month from Audible's catalog for free. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-19 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Agents, Authors Question HarperCollins AI Deal

HarperCollins has become the first Big Five publisher to strike an AI licensing deal, which authors and agents appear to be approaching with caution, skepticism, and a measure of hope. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-19 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Find your next great read with a few simple—and delightfully weird—questions.

Good news for readers, literary magazine supporters, quiz-lovers, and weirdos: n+1‘s Bookmatch is back! If you make a donation of any amount to n+1 in the month of November, you can take a short, highly entertaining multiple choice quiz (sample question: If no teeth, you eat:), and you’ll get a... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2024-11-08 17:10:59 UTC ]
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4 questions in the air at Somos, New York’s political confab

A feeling of unreality is in the air at Somos, the annual New York political confab in Puerto Rico, where attendees are keeping up their pace of frenzied schmoozing even as Donald Trump’s victory promises a turbulent new era.“We lost. What are you going to do?” shrugged one lobbyist at an... Continue reading at Crains New York

[ Crains New York | 2024-11-07 19:22:42 UTC ]
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The Impossible Book Questions We Want Answered

Impossible book data we wish existed, haunted libraries around the U.S., tarot-inspired bookish gifts, and more. Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2024-10-31 15:00:00 UTC ]
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Anthropic’s new Claude AI model can use a PC ‘the way people do’

If you’re worried about artificial intelligence taking your job, you might want to sit down for this one. AI startup Anthropic has demonstrated a new “Claude” model called that can look at a computer screen and operate a virtual mouse and keyboard, “the way people do,” according to... Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2024-10-23 19:56:07 UTC ]
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Amazon unveils a new Kindle with color display, plus updated models

Amazon has unveiled some exciting updates to the Kindle series of e-readers, including the Kindle Colorsoft (the very first Kindle with a color display) as well as updated Kindle Scribe and Kindle Paperwhite models. The regular Kindle also has a new “Matcha” green colorway. Keep reading... Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2024-10-17 14:54:38 UTC ]
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The best Prime Day Kindle deals take up to 25 percent off the Scribe and Paperwhite models

In these final hours of Amazon's October Prime Day sale, we're down to just two Kindle models on sale (or, really available at all) on Amazon's site. Why are there just two active listing for Kindles right now? It's almost certainly because Amazon is going to announce new models soon. We have no... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2024-10-09 22:01:36 UTC ]
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Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to: Charles Bock (I Will Do Better: A Father’s Memoir of Heartbreak, Parenting, and Love) Kay Chronister (The Bog Wife) Mike Fu (Masquerade) Kate Greathead (The... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2024-10-08 08:56:09 UTC ]
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New California law will force companies to admit you don't own digital content

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed AB 2426, a new law that requires digital marketplaces to make clearer to customers when they are only purchasing a license to access media. The law will not apply to cases of permanent offline downloads, only to the all-too-common situation of buying... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2024-09-26 20:30:54 UTC ]
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How Hearst Magazines is maintaining signal strength amid the shift from deterministic to probabilistic modeling

The publisher has adopted thresholds for how many users and impressions can serve as the deterministic basis and for how many categories can be in its contextual taxonomy. Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2024-09-25 04:01:00 UTC ]
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US Supreme Court: AAP, Authors Guild File Brief on Sexual Content Law

Banned Books Week: Association of American Publishers, Authors Guild, and others file an amicus brief with US Supreme Court. The post US Supreme Court: AAP, Authors Guild File Brief on Sexual Content Law appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2024-09-24 18:56:17 UTC ]
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Vice Debuts a Subscription Product and Relaunches Its Print Magazine

The digital media company Vice relaunched its print magazine and debuted its first subscription product on Tuesday, part of a broader renaissance of the publisher following its May 2023 bankruptcy filing. The revival is the byproduct of a joint venture between Vice Media... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2024-09-24 13:00:00 UTC ]
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PEN America Finds New State Laws Are Supercharging School Book Bans

In the 2023-2024 school year, state legislation was “particularly critical in accelerating book bans,” the report states, “making it easier to remove books from schools without due process, or in some cases, without any formal process whatsoever.” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
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An appeals court upholds a ruling that an online archive's book sharing violated copyright law

An appeals court has upheld an earlier finding that the online Internet Archive violated copyright law by scanning and sharing digital books without the publishers’ permission Continue reading at ABC News

[ ABC News | 2024-09-04 21:58:00 UTC ]
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Major Publishers, Authors Guild Sue Over New Florida Book Banning Law

A major lawsuit challenges Florida's book banning law, SPARE is finally coming out in paperback, and how the NYPL memed its way into saving more than 50 million bucks from being cut from its budget. All in today's top book news. Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2024-08-29 16:33:25 UTC ]
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Major Publishers, Authors Guild Sue Over New Florida Book Banning Law

The August 29 complaint over H.B. 1069 argues that the statute is vague and overbroad, and that it has led to the improper removal of hundreds of books from school and classroom libraries in the state. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-08-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Exploring the Burning Questions: A Conversation with Cara Lopez Lee, by Susan Blumberg-Kason

Exploring the Burning Questions: A Conversation with Cara Lopez Lee, by Susan Blumberg-Kason Interviews [email protected] Tue, 08/27/2024 - 15:32 I first came across Cara Lopez Lee on a listserv group (remember those!) for authors who write about... Continue reading at World Literature Today

[ World Literature Today | 2024-08-27 20:32:44 UTC ]
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The 10 Most Interesting Questions in the World of Books and Reading

Some stories come and go, but there are some stories that are part of fundamental questions that the book world is asking and trying to answer. Here are the ten that I find to be the most important at the moment. Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2024-08-21 10:00:00 UTC ]
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