Articles about Publishing

Will I get a piece of Anthropic’s $1.5B settlement if my book was used to train AI?

As Anthropic agrees to a $1.5 billion settlement, one author’s search for his own books on pirate sites reveals the personal stakes in the massive legal fight over AI training data. Read More

Podcast

Startup turnaround specialist Matt Hulett on unlocking growth, and surviving turbulent times

Our guest on the GeekWire Podcast this week is Matt Hulett, a veteran of the Seattle tech community and the author… Read More

In support of free press, this startup’s publishing tech helps get news into and out of Russia

A tiny startup in Redmond, Wash., is taking on the big task of trying to get the truth into and… Read More

Judge issues preliminary injunction for Amazon and top authors in lawsuit against ‘pirate’ book site

A judge ordered an e-book publishing site to halt its alleged counterfeit scheme as part of a court case involving… Read More

Employees want Seattle-based media company Maven to shut down ‘Blue Lives Matter’ website

Maven, the Seattle-based media company that publishes Sports Illustrated, among other magazines, is hearing from employees upset about a pro-police… Read More

Amazon reportedly wants news publishers to expand internationally — and it’s willing to pay

Amazon wants to pay some of the biggest names in American publishing to expand internationally. That’s according to Vox’s Peter… Read More

B.S. for Ph.D.s: Not even science is immune from the fake-news epidemic

The controversy over fake news may focus on politics, but it’s also slipping into the scientific realm, says one of… Read More

Amazon blocks and then restores sale of sci-fi book for reportedly copying another’s cover

In a saga that could very well be ripped from the pages of the very books involved, two science-fiction novels with… Read More

Report: More than 40% of ads are too big and slowing down your site

Ad quality issues on web pages might be affecting publishers more than they realize. A new report released by Ad… Read More

Flattr and Adblock Plus team to create tool that will help users seamlessly pay web publishers

The microdonations service Flattr and the Internet ad blocker Adblock Plus are teaming to create a new tool called Flattr… Read More

Oyster takes aim at Amazon with new e-book store, lands all ‘Big Five’ publishers

Oyster launched a new version of its e-book platform today that puts it in even closer competition with Amazon. The… Read More

An image you can’t unsee: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos as romance novel heartthrob

Did you ever wonder what Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos would look like on the cover of a romance novel? Of… Read More

Hachette vs. Amazon: Writers plan to appeal to online retailer’s board

Amazon.com’s board will be the next group to be dragged into a months-long dispute between the online retailer and publishing… Read More

Why Apple’s Newsstand isn’t working out as hoped for ‘The Magazine’

When Marco Arment created The Magazine in October of last year, it caused a splash as one of the first… Read More

Amazon debuts weekly literary journal and it has Jeff Bezos’ influence written all over it

Amazon is making another move into the publishing space today with the announcement of its own weekly literary journal that will feature one… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: Glenn Fleishman on new iPhones, The Magazine and more

Joining us this week on the GeekWire radio show: Glenn Fleishman, the longtime Seattle-based technology journalist, veteran Apple watcher, and… Read More

Kim Thompson, 1956-2013: Fantagraphics co-publisher helped shape the comic book industry

Kim Thompson, the pioneering comics publisher who along with Gary Groth helped define the comics book industry though their Fantagraphics… Read More

Amazon to pay royalties for fan fiction in new ‘Kindle Worlds’ program

Ready to write some fan fic? Amazon may have some money for you. The company says it will license rights… Read More

The Elance for publishing: Writer.ly offers marketplace for authors needing help

It’s not easy for an author to put out a commercially successful product. Not only does he or she have… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Zoomstra helps authors turn content into interactive workbooks

Zoomstra wants to re-invent the way people publish and distribute marketing materials and books, allowing authors to add multi-media elements,… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Writer.ly matches authors with book publishing experts

Writer.ly founder Kelsye Nelson is taking the wraps off her new book publishing marketplace today, presenting to more than 600… Read More

New Village Voice owner distances alt weeklies from Backpage.com

Late yesterday a new holding group, Voice Media Group, announced it would purchase the media properties of Village Voice Media… Read More

Barnes & Noble swipes at Amazon, raises objections to DOJ e-book settlement

Barnes & Noble today jumped into the complex legal battle over the future of electronic book publishing, raising objections to a… Read More

Amazon.com buys rights to 3,000 romance, mystery and western book titles

Amazon.com continues to gobble up book titles, this time sealing deal for some 3,000 backlist titles from Avalon Books in… Read More

Another big brick-and-mortar bookseller says it won’t carry titles from Amazon.com

Books-A-Million, the second largest brick-and-mortar bookseller in the U.S. with 251 stores in 30 states, has joined with Barnes &… Read More

Parenting magazine’s little Steve Jobs: Cute or creepy?

At first I laughed when I saw the cover of the newly arrived Parenting on my desk last night, featuring… Read More

Seattle librarian Nancy Pearl to publish out-of-print books with help from Amazon.com

Nancy Pearl is perhaps the only celebrity librarian that we know of, regularly appearing on National Public Radio and immortalized… Read More

Seattlepi.com chief Michelle Nicolosi resigns to launch new electronic book publishing firm

Michelle Nicolosi, who led the charge for the SeattlePI.com after Hearst Corp. shut down the physical newspaper operations in March… Read More

As Amazon threat mounts, Barnes & Noble expands beyond books online

Barnes & Noble typically conjures images of books, calendars, CDs and other published items. But the retailer is looking to… Read More

Madrona, Amazon and others pump $10 million into online ad analyzer Yieldex

Madrona Venture Group and Amazon.com are among the backers in a $10 million round for Yieldex, a New York-based company… Read More