PW Digital Marketplace
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DevicesAmazon Cuts Jobs in Book Division
The e-tail giant has laid off an undisclosed number of employees in its Books division, adding that fewer than 100 roles were affected. The cuts include roles in Amazon’s Kindle unit and at book review platform Goodreads.
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Devices
Barnes & Noble Makes Change in Nook Leadership
Replacing Susan McCulloch with Jennifer Perry is the latest move at the bookselling chain in its pivot to focus its resources on its bricks-and-mortar stores.
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Content / e-books
Ingram Adds AI Tools to iD Advertising Platform
Ingram Content Group has added AI-powered ad copy generation and automated image creation tools to its Ingram iD advertising platform, which it says has access to four million active book buyers.
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Content / e-books
Audible Expands Catalog with AI Narration and Translation Services
Audible is now offering AI-powered narration and production services to select audiobook publishers, with AI translation services to launch in beta later this year.
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Copyright
Copyright Chief Fired Amid AI Debate
The Trump administration fired Shira Perlmutter, the register of copyrights and director of the U.S. Copyright Office, on Saturday—just one day after the dismissal of her boss, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, and the Copyright Office’s release of a preliminary report on generative AI and copyright.
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Conferences
AI in Publishing: PW Talks with Fauzia Burke
The veteran publicist and founder of FSB Associates will keynote this Friday’s Professional Publishers Network conference in Berkeley, Calif., where she will offer an optimistic view on AI’s potential in an industry often resistant to technological change.
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Copyright
As Industry Demands AI Licensing Frameworks, Emerging Tech Can Help
With generative AI forging ahead unfettered, leaders in publishing and other creative industries are asking for licensing frameworks that protect creators while enabling technological innovation. New platforms and software are bringing solutions closer.
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Conferences
AI Threatens Creators’ Livelihoods, Experts Say
Experts from different creative industries discussed how they are coping with technological disruption at a conference last week in Washington, D.C.
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Conferences
Unethical AI Training Harms Creators and Society, Argues AI Pioneer
Ed Newton-Rex, founder of the U.K.-based nonprofit Fairly Trained, argued at a recent forum in Washington, D.C., that AI companies’ unlawful use of creative works to train AI models has had deleterious effects not only on artists’ incomes and livelihoods but on the open internet.
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Content / e-books
The Audiobook Business Learns to Embrace AI
At a panel at this year’s London Book Fair, executives from Bookwire, Hachette, and Storytel examined AI’s impact on the audiobook market, opportunities the technology could create, and concerns over rights management and compensation.
