When people type a question into Perplexity, the two-year-old search engine scours the internet and uses information from multiple sources, including online publishers, to synthesize an answer using AI. Soon, Perplexity will start sharing revenue with some publishers as part of an advertising platform it plans to launch around the end of September, the company announced on Tuesday. The initiative, known as the Perplexity Publishers’ Program, comes less than two months after the San Francisco-based startup backed by investors like Jeff Bezos and NVIDIA, and valued at $3 billion, came under fire from Forbes, Wired, and Condé Nast for allegedly scraping content without permission and ignoring robots.txt, a type of file that websites use to block page-crawling bots. Perplexity’s initial partners include TIME, Fortune, The Texas Tribune, Der Spiegel and Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. It’s not clear exactly how much revenue Perplexity will share with publishers. Dmitry Shevelenko, the company’s chief business officer, declined to reveal numbers but told Engadget that it would be a “meaningful double-digit percentage shared back with the publishers that contributed source input to the answer." He also said that the partnership would extend across multiple years without specifying how many. What this wasn’t, Shevelenko insisted repeatedly, was a response to the critical press coverage in the last few months. “We’ve been talking to publishers since January,” he... Continue reading at 'Engadget'
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From the Author's Guild case against Google to missing booksellers in Hong Kong, here is a list of some top publishing links from the week of January 4-8, 2016. The post Top Publishing Links of the Week: January 4-8, 2016 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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The Publishers Weekly Stock Index jumped 59.2% in 2015 over 2014, propelled in part by a huge boost from Amazon. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Private exchanges are still a good way for publishers to get in on the programmatic action. The post Setting Up Your Own Private Ad Exchange appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2016-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The narrative about legacy print and TV brands is that their legacy processes and businesses would make it hard for them to adjust to the Web, which has been dominated by smaller, more nimble upstarts. But many of these publishers have taken lessons from their startup successors, using the tools... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The chairman of China South Publishing & Media Group, Gong Shuguang, offers advice to international publishers who want to work with Chinese companies. The post 3 Tips for International Publishers Who Want to Do Business in China appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Suspected abduction of five booksellers prompts fears of mounting self-censorship in face of mainland crackdown on ‘salacious’ publicationsOne of Hong Kong’s leading international bookshop chains has removed politically sensitive books from its shelves in the wake of the mysterious disappearance... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Intellogo Founder and CEO Neil Balthaser examines the challenge of discoverability and provides a solution for the flood of content on self-publishing platforms. The post Curation, Discovery, and Marketability: Intellogo Provides Tools for Self-Publishing Platforms appeared first on Publishing... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Society of Authors has issued an open letter, addressed to members of the Publishers Association and Independent Publishers Guild, asking publishers to address the issue of author earnings which it says are "falling fast". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook's publisher-facing ad-tech arm LiveRail is shutting down the ad server business that you might not have known it operated.Known best for being one of the top video ad exchanges when Facebook agreed to buy it in July 2014, LiveRail also offered a way to help publishers pick out which... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2016-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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India's Pratham Books' StoryWeaver platform offers open source of children's books and encourages users to translate, adapt and use the content for free. The post Pratham Books’ StoryWeaver: Open Source Publishing for India’s Children appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Stephen Lotinga will succeed Richard Mollet as chief executive of the U.K.-based advocacy group for publishers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The deal, which closed December 31, will see Turner get the publishing rights, inventory and related assets to about 280 titles. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Stephen Lotinga, Nick Clegg's former director of communications, has been appointed as The Publishers Association's new chief executive. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Over the past few years, publishers have mastered the art of optimizing their content for Facebook to fuel growth. But today, growth is slowing, putting more publishers on edge as 2016 draws near. With easy traffic and growth far from certain, venture capital-backed publishers hope to sell at... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chilean publishers are looking to digitization to help them expand their local and export markets, says Javier Sepúlveda Hales of Chile's eBooks Patagonia. The post How Chilean Publishers Can Leverage the “Digital Opportunity” appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As part of its ongoing effort to raise writers’ income, the Authors Guild is sending an open letter to members of the Association of American Publishers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With sales of ebooks slipping and print books enjoying a mild rebound, ebooks’ share of consumer spending on books has declined over the past two years. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For literary lovers, there's not much more exciting than browsing a well-stocked bookstore. But one Barnes & Noble location might be trying to make book shopping even more fun by adding alcohol to the equation. A Barnes & Noble store in New Hartford, N.Y., has applied for a beer and wine... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-12-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Connecticut newspaper publisher thrust into the national spotlight because of his role in the purchase of Nevada's largest paper purchased another publication last week. The Block Island Times' current publishers, Fraser Lang and B ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
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