Getting Down to Business
By Densie Webb | January 6, 2024 |
Happy New Year! Can you believe it’s 2024? Neither can the publishing industry. Lots coming down the pike. Growing concerns over AI are in store for 2024, but the EU is attempting to take the EU bull by the horns. Will the US follow suit? Not at this point. While Apple is in talks with publishers to use their content to train AI, The New York Times is suing AI Microsoft for copyright infringement and Google’s AI program is raising fresh concerns with publishers. We’ll see. Publisher’s Weekly offers a free book-business events calendar for the year. Check it out! There may be a conference or book fair or two, you’d be interested in. Books bans are a continued thorn in everyone’s side, but there are pushbacks. And, of course, this month’s column wouldn’t be complete without mentioning the dumpster fire of review bombing by one debut author, which exploded in the headlines and tanked their writing career.
Top Book Business News of 2023 and Looking Ahead to 2024
Roundup of 2023 From Publishers Weekly
Looking Ahead to Publishing Trends for 2024
All the 2024 Book Events in One Place
AI
Apple in Talks with Publishers to Use Content to Train AI
7 Ways AI Will Impact Authors and the Publishing Industry
NYT Sues Open AI Microsoft for Copyright Infringement
Sweeping Regulation of AI in the EU
Final Vote on EU Regulations of EU Expected in 2024
Italian Publishers Toughen AI Act Regulation
How Publishers May Work with AI Firms in 2024
Google’s New AI Model Raises New Concerns for Publishers
Book Bans
Judge Blocks Provisions in Iowa Book-Banning Law
New Data on 2 Years of Book Banning
Book Sales
Review Bombing
Publisher Drops Author with Fake Goodreads Accounts
The Burning Question of Copyright
Canadian Publishing Industry Called out over Inaction
Publishers
When Publishers Shut Down Imprints
Penguin Random House Acquires Self-Help Publishers
UK Mensch Press Joins Ingram in Print-on-Demand Partnership
Who’s in, Who’s Out in the Publishing World
Publishing Secrets Revealed at Penguin Random House Trial
Inquiring minds want to know—What do you see in the publishing crystal ball for 2024? How do you think it will affect your writing/publishing journey? Do you see AI as good or bad for authors this year? Have you used AI? How was it? Have you been a victim of review bombing, even on a small scale?
Densie Webb has spent a long career as a freelance nonfiction writer and editor, specializing in health and nutrition and has published several books and tons of articles on the topic over the years. She is a member of the Women’s Fiction Writers Association, and Red Adept Publishing released her debut women’s fiction novel titled, “When Robins Appear” in 2020. It is available in ebook, audiobook, and paperback formats. Her second novel, best categorized as romantic/domestic suspense, “Breathing in Reverse” was published in 2023, also with Red Adept Publishing. She is currently working (but not fast enough) on novel #3. She grew up in Louisiana, spent 13 years in New York, and settled in Austin, TX, where it’s summer nine months of the year. She’s an avid walker (not of the dead variety, though she loves anything to do with zombies, vampires, or post-apocalyptic worlds), drinks way too much coffee, and has a small “devil dog” that keep her on her toes. And she is thrilled to be a part of the Writer Unboxed family!
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Best collection yet. Rabbit holes as far as the eye can see.
Thank you! Glad that you’re finding it useful.