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October 19, 2024

Penguin Random House books now explicitly say ‘no’ to AI training

Book publisher Penguin Random House is putting its stance on AI training in print. The standard copyright page on both…

July 4, 2024

An ongoing outage is preventing Amazon Kindle users from downloading both new and previously purchased books to their e-readers. According…

December 21, 2023

As 2023 draws to a close, it’s time to look back on the year that was. It was a great…

October 20, 2023

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is among a group of authors suing Meta, Microsoft, and other companies over the use…

January 5, 2023

Audiobooks narrated by a text-to-speech AI are now available via Apple’s Books service, in a move with potentially huge implications…

November 22, 2022

Apple Books has been my main reading app for years for one very specific reason: its page-turning animation is far…

April 21, 2022

An ebook subscription platform used by thousands of public libraries in the US and elsewhere is offering Holocaust denial, COVID…