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Content / e-books
Generative AI Technology Can Support Book Publishing
From personal productivity to scalable applications, generative AI technology has plenty to offer publishing if used correctly.
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Copyright
Authors Join the Brewing Legal Battle Over AI
Two new class action copyright lawsuits ramp up the growing scrutiny of large language models and other generative artificial intelligence tools.
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Trade Shows
European Publishers See Audiobooks, AI as Inevitabilities
Speakers at the Readmagine publishing conference discussed the various ways the global audiobook market will continue to grow and offered up some thoughts on AI and publishing.
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Content / e-books
AI Is About to Turn Book Publishing Upside-Down
The latest generation of AI is a game changer, Thad McIlroy writes. And the change won't be incremental, but scary fast. If he's right, then the trade book publishing industry as we know it will soon be obsolete.
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Financial Reporting
AI Concerns Drop Chegg Stock by 48%
The stock price of Chegg, the online learning platform for university students, fell 48% Tuesday, after its CEO reported that a spike in interest by students in ChatGPT resulted in lower than expected results in the first quarter.
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London Book Fair
London Book Fair 2023: U.K. Publishers Association Turns Focus to AI Regulation, Literacy
The Publishers Association exists to ensure that publishers across the U.K. can thrive. This year, AI regulation and literacy are among the key areas of focus for the organization.
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London Book Fair
London Book Fair 2023: Talk of AI and Other Tech Fills the Halls
ChatGPT and AI were perhaps the hottest topics at this year's fair, with panelists and other attendees debating the pluses and minuses of the new technologies.
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London Book Fair
London Book Fair 2023: AI Review of AI Says Humans Are Better Critics
Jonathan Segura, co–editorial director at PW, makes a case for human critics over AI.
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Licensing
Authors Guild Meets with Legislators Over Generative AI Concerns
The Guild led a coalition of creative groups who spent a week lobbying lawmakers for legal guardrails against generative artificial intelligence programs and educating them on potential harms posed by such programs on literary and creative industries.
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Apps
OpenAI Debuts GPT-4
The company behind GPT-3 and ChatGPT has released its latest upgrade of the generative AI tool as concerns over AI text generation proliferate in the book world.
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Content / e-books
The Effort to Help Publishers Fight Disinformation Is Underway
What content can you trust in an era of generative AI, deepfakes, fake news, and other counterfeits? Bill Kasdorf highlights three new organizations developing “certificates of authenticity” for media assets.
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Retailing
Digital Book World 2023: The Future of AI Writing and Audio
According to multiple presenters at the Digital Book World conference, ChatGPT has potential to remake the way people write and streamline production and editing, while AI voice replication promises affordable audiobook adaptations.