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IPG Teams with Beat Technology for D2C E-books, Audiobooks
Distribution affiliates of Independent Publishers Group will now be able to sell e-books and audiobooks directly to readers through the Norway-based white-label app provider’s first U.S. platform, Shelf.
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Can AI-Enhanced E-books Be Made Ethically? This Startup Thinks So
Lixandria, a new digital reading platform, will offer AI-powered enhancements to e-books developed with the permission of rights holders while offering fair compensation to authors and publishers, says founder Eric Shashoua.
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OverDrive Sues OpenAI Over Sora App
The digital distributor to schools and libraries is charging the AI company with trademark infringement related to its new text-to-video app Sora, which has the same name and a “confusingly similar visual identity” as an app OverDrive launched in 2018.
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Spotify Adds Audiobooks in Four More Countries
Spotify has launched audiobooks in the Nordic nations of Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland, bringing its model to one of the world’s most mature digital audio markets.
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AI Translation Race Accelerates
Two startups, GlobeScribe and Ailaysa, target backlist, “low-resource” languages, and the 98% of all books never translated.
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MetaComet Expands Into Rights
The software company, which had previously focused exclusively on managing royalties, is launching a new rights management platform.
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The EU's New Publishing School
ThinkPub is the ambitious, new education platform helping European publishers navigate digital disruption.
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Opening Shots
Authors and publishers have won the first skirmish in the AI copyright wars.
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Human First Human Last
Ingram Book Group’s implementation of AI emphasizes enhancing productivity, while protecting data–all with supervision.
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Heard Around the World
PRH Audio sees massive opportunity to employ the frictionless digital production and distribution of audiobooks to accelerate listenership worldwide.
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Audible's Market Insights
Audiobook listeners love genre books, but regional tastes differ.
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A Delicate Balance
The Frankfurt Rights Meeting weighs the risks and rewards of AI licensing deals.
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Amazon Adds Benetech Accessible Metadata to E-books
Millions of readers with disabilities can now easily identify accessible e-books on Amazon, thanks to new accessibility metadata displays for titles that meet Benetech’s Global Certified Accessible (GCA) standards.
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Championing Independent Audiobook Distribution: PW Talks with the Cofounders of InAudio
Former Findaway executives Ralph Lazaro and Blake Squires discuss the launch of InAudio, an independent audiobook distribution platform serving retailers, libraries, publishers, and self-published authors.
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Everand Adds ‘Deluxe’ Subscription Tier
Scribd’s digital reading platform is now offering a $28.99 monthly subscription tier, in addition to its Standard and Premium tiers, that offers readers access to five “premium” books and audiobooks each month.
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