Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, and Cengage, alongside novelist Scott Turow, file a class-action copyright lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg
The class-action lawsuit accuses the tech giant and its founder and chief executive of infringing on authors' copyrights.
A look at Inkitt, a publishing platform that uses AI to create sequels and spinoffs of authors' original work with minimal human input, raising quality concerns
A look at genre fiction publisher Inkitt and its “AI-driven” ecosystem of content. — www.bloomberg.com/features/202... Vauhini Vara / @vauhinivara : Meet the startup, backed by big Silicon Valley in...
An arbitrator instructs a former Meta employee to stop promoting and publishing her book alleging company misconduct; publisher Flatiron Books earlier objected
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/t... Josh Sternberg / @joshsternberg.com : Guess what book I just bought! — www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/t... Karl Bode / @karlbode.com : this must be the “masculine” adorat...
Big-5 publisher Macmillan adds its ebooks to Scribd and Oyster
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As 17 more states join class action against book publishers and Apple, new details revealed
New York, the District of Columbia and fifteen other states have joined the e-book pricing class action suit against Apple, Macmillan and Penguin, bringing the total number of states involved so far t...
U.S. Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple, Hachette
The U.S. filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple Corp., Hachette SA, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster in New York district court, claiming collusion over eBook pricing. Apple a...
Textbooks That Professors Can Rewrite Digitally
Readers can modify content on the Web, so why not in books? — In a kind of Wikipedia of textbooks, Macmillan, one of the five largest publishers of trade books and textbooks, is introducing software...
In Amazon vs. Macmillan, Amazon Is The Winner
It was a surprising weekend for those of us who had naively imagined that after crossing the River iPad, we might actually get some Elysian rest. But, alas, the fates conspired against us and handed ...
Amazon, Macmillan: an outsider's guide to the fight
(Apologies for the formatting; I'm typing this on a netbook with a tiny keyboard.) — Last Friday, Amazon.com unilaterally pulled most or all of Macmillan's books from their online store. (You can s...