Hacker News with Generative AI: Publishing

Lapham's Quarterly Announces New Stewardship (laphamsquarterly.org)
Lapham’s Quarterly, the celebrated journal of history and ideas founded by the late editor and journalist Lewis H. Lapham, will relaunch under the stewardship of Bard College and its Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities in 2025.
Journalism, History, Humanities, Publishing
45 points by benbreen 3 days ago | 6 comments
Publishers trial paying peer reviewers – what did they find? (nature.com)
Trials suggest that offering payment can increase the chance of a researcher agreeing to review, and in some cases speed up the process.
Publishing, Research, Peer Review, Incentives
25 points by xqcgrek2 4 days ago | 24 comments
Paged Out #6 [pdf] (pagedout.institute)
Almost exactly three years have passed since the last update, and nearly four since the last issue being published. So, what happened? And is this blog entry a glimpse of hope for Issue #3 ever appearing? Or is this just a final entry to sum up the project and officially shut it down?
Publishing, Blogs, Long-form Content, Online Communities
305 points by pcfwik 4 days ago | 53 comments
Published doesn't mean paid (ghost.io)
I want to talk about money.
Publishing, Finance, Freelancing
51 points by Anon84 4 days ago | 61 comments
Updated W3C Recommendation: ePub 3.3 (w3.org)
The Publishing Maintenance Working Group has published an updated EPUB 3.3 Recommendation. EPUB® 3 defines a distribution and interchange format for digital publications and documents.
Publishing, Web Standards, Digital Publishing, ePUB
4 points by Kerrick 6 days ago | 0 comments
Inside arXiv–The Most Transformative Platform in All of Science (wired.com)
“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!” With a sly grin that I’d soon come to recognize, Paul Ginsparg quoted Michael Corleone from The Godfather. Ginsparg, a physics professor at Cornell University and a certified MacArthur genius, may have little in common with Al Pacino’s mafia don, but both are united by the feeling that they were denied a graceful exit from what they’ve built.
Science, Academia, Publishing, Research, AI
92 points by fprog 7 days ago | 2 comments
$160 book by Springer about Advanced Nanovaccines Contains AI generated text (mastodon.social)
AI, Science, Publishing, Vaccines
19 points by croes 9 days ago | 4 comments
Lapham's Quarterly Announces New Stewardship (laphamsquarterly.org)
Lapham’s Quarterly, the celebrated journal of history and ideas founded by the late editor and journalist Lewis H. Lapham, will relaunch under the stewardship of Bard College and its Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities in 2025.
Journalism, History, Publishing, Education, Non-profit
11 points by janandonly 10 days ago | 0 comments
A note on LibGen and the unauthorized use of our authors' work (mitpress.mit.edu)
Anyone following the conversation around AI and large language models (LLMs) will find Alex Reisner’s article “The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem,” published yesterday in The Atlantic, eye-opening.
Copyright, Generative AI, Publishing
5 points by gnabgib 10 days ago | 0 comments
The Vanishing Male Writer (marginalrevolution.com)
It’s easy enough to trace the decline of young white men in American letters—just browse The New York Times’s “Notable Fiction” list.
Literature, Gender, Social Issues, Publishing, Demographics
7 points by delichon 11 days ago | 0 comments
Meta pirated at least 101 of my books, and others (garymarcus.substack.com)
Meta pirated at least 101 of my books and articles, and tens of millions of others
Copyright Infringement, Meta, Publishing, Books, Articles
50 points by tu7001 11 days ago | 54 comments
The Vanishing White Male Writer (compactmag.com)
It’s easy enough to trace the decline of young white men in American letters—just browse The New York Times’s “Notable Fiction” list. In 2012 the Times included seven white American men under the age of 43 (the cut-off for a millennial today); in 2013 there were six, in 2014 there were six.
Literature, Demographics, Culture, Publishing
13 points by mudil 12 days ago | 5 comments
A Tiny Press Took a Big Risk on Experimental Books. It Paid Off (nytimes.com)
The British publisher Tilted Axis specialized in innovative translated literature. It won them major awards. Now they’re coming to the U.S.
Publishing, Literature, Translation, Business
13 points by rguiscard 15 days ago | 2 comments
Data Becker (wikipedia.org)
Data Becker GmbH & Co. KG was a German publisher of computer books and a company for software and computer accessories based in Düsseldorf. The company ceased operations in March 2014.
German Companies, Software, History, Publishing, Technology
8 points by doener 16 days ago | 8 comments
Meta Seeks to Block Further Sales of Ex-Employee's Scathing Memoir (nytimes.com)
Meta won a legal victory on Wednesday against a former employee who published an explosive, tell-all memoir, as an arbitrator temporarily prohibited the author from promoting or further distributing copies.
Meta, Law, Books, Publishing, Employees
17 points by iancmceachern 19 days ago | 1 comments
Meta puts stop on promotion of tell-all book by former employee (theguardian.com)
Meta on Wednesday won an emergency arbitration ruling to temporarily stop promotion of the tell-all book Careless People by a former employee, according to a copy of the ruling published by the social media company.
Meta, Social Media, Lawsuits, Publishing
12 points by newaccountlol 20 days ago | 0 comments
Meta is trying to block ex-employee's book alleging misconduct and harassment (theverge.com)
An arbitrator has instructed the book’s author and its publishers to stop publishing the book, though it’s unclear how much authority the arbitrator has to do so.
Meta, Lawsuits, Business, Publishing
17 points by coloneltcb 21 days ago | 0 comments
Bill Bryson: Too many people publishing their own books (thetimes.com)
Publishing, Books, Opinion, Authors
9 points by bookofjoe 23 days ago | 2 comments
Toby Walsh: What tech giants are doing to book publishing is akin to theft (theguardian.com)
I am outraged at the tech companies like OpenAI, Google and Meta for training their AI models, such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Llama, on my copyrighted books without either my consent or offering me or Black Inc any compensation.
Copyright, Artificial Intelligence, Publishing, Technology
5 points by sahli 26 days ago | 0 comments
Who's Afraid of Tom Wolfe? (commonreader.wustl.edu)
Tom Wolfe’s books are being reissued, in homage, by Picador. But he would never put the news so blandly.
Literature, Authors, Publishing
93 points by lermontov 29 days ago | 26 comments
Wiley journal retracts 26 papers for 'compromised peer review' (retractionwatch.com)
A Wiley journal has retracted more than two dozen articles in the last few months for peer review issues.
Science, Publishing, Research, Academic Integrity
23 points by leephillips 37 days ago | 0 comments
Who will like this book? (yrsd.life)
I recently wrote a new blurb for the novel. I didn’t hate the old one (I’ve pasted it below for reference) - although there is no doubt a professional would have done it better. If anything, the style & tone & format of my new attempt is atypical. A publishing house probably wouldn’t use this blurb because it is too frenzied, and it risks turning too many people away, right at the door.
Writing, Book Marketing, Novels, Publishing
13 points by ynlefevre 41 days ago | 7 comments
Steve Jackson Games Is Bringing the Fighting Fantasy Books to the US (sjgames.com)
AUSTIN, TX 10/17/24 – In 1982, British game designers Sir Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson introduced Fighting Fantasy, a revolutionary set of solo adventure books that combined nonlinear narratives with dice-rolling tabletop RPG mechanics. Now, this fantastical, multi-million-selling book series returns to the United States thanks to an historic 50-book publishing collaboration with Steve Jackson Games. The first books in the series will be available in early 2025.
Gaming, Books, Publishing, History
105 points by mattl 43 days ago | 63 comments
Among top researchers 10% publish at unrealistic levels, analysis finds (chemistryworld.com)
About 10% of the most influential researchers worldwide in various scientific fields, including chemistry, are achieving ‘implausibly high’ publication and new co-author rates.
Science, Research, Publishing, Academia, Chemistry
188 points by crescit_eundo 43 days ago | 112 comments
As a nonsense phrase of shady provenance makes the rounds, Elsevier defends it (retractionwatch.com)
The phrase was so strange it would have stood out even to a non-scientist. Yet “vegetative electron microscopy” had already made it past reviewers and editors at several journals when a Russian chemist and scientific sleuth noticed the odd wording in a now-retracted paper in Springer Nature’s Environmental Science and Pollution Research.
Science, Research, Retraction, Publishing, Academic Integrity
61 points by domofutu 50 days ago | 7 comments
Mass market non-fiction has bad incentives (borretti.me)
The problem with non-fiction, and the reason most non-fiction books are not worth reading, is the interests of the reader and writer are misaligned.
Non-fiction, Publishing, Writing, Incentives
46 points by bumbledraven 50 days ago | 36 comments
Tell HN: O'Reilly sells DRM-free eBooks again (ebooks.com)
O’Reilly’s mission is to change the world by sharing the knowledge of innovators.
Ebooks, DRM, Publishing
35 points by Kerrick 54 days ago | 4 comments
Quire – open-source multiformat publishing tool (quire.getty.edu)
Quire is an open-source multiformat publishing tool designed for longevity, discoverability, and scholarship. Using a single set of plain text files, Quire creates books as authoritative and enduring as print and as vibrant and feature-rich as the web—all without paying a fee or maintaining a complicated server.
Open Source, Publishing, Tools, Academic
13 points by amai 59 days ago | 1 comments
Books written by humans are getting their own certification (theverge.com)
Books not created by AI will be listed in a US Authors Guild database that anyone can access.
Books, Publishing, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Authors
3 points by clumsysmurf 62 days ago | 2 comments
Fake papers contaminate world scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry (theconversation.com)
Over the past decade, furtive commercial entities around the world have industrialized the production, sale and dissemination of bogus scholarly research, undermining the literature that everyone from doctors to engineers rely on to make decisions about human lives.
Science, Research, Publishing, Academic Integrity
6 points by rntn 62 days ago | 0 comments