Link-Busters, an anti-piracy company working for big publishers, passed 2B URL takedown requests sent to Google and is behind 50%+ of Google takedown requests
Online piracy is a constant headache for copyright holders; one that's particularly hard to beat.
Academics say publisher Taylor & Francis hadn't told them about selling access to authors' research as part of a $10M+ Microsoft AI deal, nor let them opt out
The big publishers continue to rent-seek & exploit scholars...expect all the other major academic publishers. … Ben Williamson / @BenPatrickWill@mastodon.social : As an editor of a journal publishing ...
How the Internet Archive plans to defend its digital lending practices as it appeals a US court's 2023 ruling; IA says it was forced to remove over 500K books
https://www.techdirt.com/... Kevin Carson / @KevinCarson1@kolektiva.social : Copyright Nazis strike again: — If you found out that 500,000 books had been removed from your local public library, at t...
The NYT, LAT, and WaPo won't buy Twitter Blue; NYT, LAT, BuzzFeed, and Politico won't reimburse reporters for Blue, but Semafor and other small outlets plan to
'If You Know Me I Ain't Paying' Jess Weatherbed / The Verge : News outlets respond to Twitter Blue coercion with a resounding 'meh.'Twitter is removing blue checkmarks from legacy verified accounts to...
News Corp announces a multi-year, global partnership with Google to provide content from its news sites “in return for significant payments by Google”
In the face of proposed regulation in Australia that would require tech giants … Jared Newman / Fast Company : Facebook has banned Australian news, but there's a workaround Financial Times : Big Tech ...
Hagens Berman files suit against Amazon alleging it colluded with five big publishers to fix eBook prices; Hagens Berman previously sued Apple for the same
Amazon is accused of fixing the price of e-books sold on the e-commerce site through anticompetitive agreements …
Sources describe efforts by Google and big publishers to combat the ad fraud practice called spoofing on major ad exchanges, via ads.txt initiative
Mike Shields / Business Insider :
Sources describe efforts by Google and big publishers to combat the ad fraud practice called spoofing on major ad exchanges, via ads.txt initiative
Mike Shields / Business Insider :
How Facebook's shifting priorities and inferior monetization options for Instant Articles are leading some big publishers to abandon the format
Facebook's Instant Articles promised to transform journalism — but now big publishers are fleeing — Inside Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters …
E-book sales fell 10% in first five months of 2015, while print books and bookstores are showing resilience
UPDATE: There is a question as to whether … Andrew Nusca / Fortune : Print books are far from dead. But they're definitely on the decline Daniel Berkowitz / Digital Book World : Ebook Sales Slip and P...