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Book DealsBook Deals: Week of April 21, 2025
FSG pulls in a hot history of the artificial intelligence industry, two major names in music sell two new books, and more in this week’s book deals.
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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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Publisher News
AAP Files Amicus Brief in Meta AI Copyright Case
The Association of American Publishers filed an amicus brief on April 11 supporting authors in their class action lawsuit against Meta for copyright infringement related to AI training.
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Industry News
‘Convenience’ of AI Art Threatens Human Creativity, Illustrator Argues
With the development of OpenAI’s new image generation technology, publishing professionals at Bologna shared concerns about the impact of AI’s ability to generate picture book illustrations.
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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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Shows & Events
Politicians Assert U.S. Constitution Mandates Protecting Creativity
At an April 8 summit on AI, Vermont senator Peter Welch and former Virginia representative Bob Goodlatte, among others, stressed that copyright protections should not be dismantled to accelerate AI development.
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Publisher News
Taylor & Francis to Translate Books into English Using AI
The U.K.-based academic publisher has announced plans to use AI to translate books into English from languages that would otherwise have too small of an audience to justify paying for human translation.
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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.
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Copyright
Book Biz to Big Tech: Pay Up, Then We Can Make Up
Artificial intelligence is upending publishing, and industry leaders know there’s no end in sight. That’s why they plan to win key copyright lawsuits—then forge a path forward through Silicon Valley.
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Copyright
Publishers See Mixed Messages in Paris AI Summit
The just-concluded Artificial Intelligence Action Summit did not include copyright protection as one of its six top priorities, to the disappointment of the AAP, but did mention that protection of IP is worthy of “global reflection.”
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Publisher News
AAP, IPA Join Groups Calling for AI to Respect Copyright
The Association of American Publishers, under the auspices of the International Publishers Association, is among 38 international organizations that have released a joint statement calling for oversight and regulation of artificial intelligence development, especially in regard to respect for copyright and IP.
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News
Libraro Aims to Solve the Slush Pile Problem
The U.K. startup has launched a blockchain-powered platform that aims to ease manuscript discovery by connecting unpublished authors with publishing professionals and readers while providing engagement data to the industry.
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Apps
Former PRH India Editor Develops AI-Powered Editorial Platform
Editrix, a new AI-powered editorial platform founded by Meru Gokhale, aims to provide automated developmental editing, structural editing, and inline editing capabilities for fiction and nonfiction manuscripts.
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Copyright
New Government Report Addresses ‘Copyrightability’ of AI Works
A report from the U.S. Copyright Office determined that works purely generated by AI are not eligible to be copyrighted, but works created by human authors assisted by AI can be given copyright protection.
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Publisher News
Authors Guild Rolls Out ‘Human Authored’ Certification Program
The new certification, intended to counteract the proliferation of AI-generated books in online marketplaces, involves a public database for authors and publishers to register their books as having been penned by humans and not AI.
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Trade Shows
BolognaBookPlus to Host Inaugural AI Summit
The summit, slated for April 1, will feature speakers and sessions aimed at helping publishers leverage AI to their benefit and implement the technology responsibly.
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Frankfurt Book Fair
How Publishers Can Help AI Help Them
AI is going to be a catalyst that will allow people to come up with new business models and new ideas, says Circles of AI cofounder Rochelle Grayson—as long as it’s approached the right way.
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Frankfurt Book Fair
With the AI Revolution Underway, Copyright Law Must Evolve
The way our legal system approaches issues of intellectual property must change to meet the novel questions posed by new technology, argues publishing industry analyst Christopher Kenneally.
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Content / e-books
Created by Humans AI Rights Platform Launches for Authors
The startup, launched by Scribd cofounder Trip Adler, has unveiled its AI rights licensing platform for authors, which allows for the licensing of AI training rights and reference rights.
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Licensing
Authors Guild Reinforces Its Position on AI Licensing
In a statement released Friday, the Guild reasserted its position that authors should have control over the licensing of AI rights to their work.
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