Hacker News with Generative AI: Publishing

Arthur Frommer, 95, Dies; His Guidebooks Opened Travel to the Masses (nytimes.com)
Arthur Frommer, who expanded the horizons of postwar Americans and virtually invented the low-budget travel industry with his seminal guidebook, “Europe on 5 Dollars a Day: A Guide to Inexpensive Travel,” which introduced millions to an experience once considered the exclusive domain of the wealthy, died on Monday at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was 95.
Travel, History, Publishing, Biography
6 points by bookofjoe 11 hours ago | 0 comments
Paged Out #5 – hacker zine release [pdf] (pagedout.institute)
Zines, Design, Publishing, Art
36 points by todsacerdoti 2 days ago | 6 comments
What to Do When Your Hypothesis Is Wrong? Publish (sciencefriday.com)
But what about the papers with negative results? If you’re a researcher, you know that you’re much more likely to disprove your hypothesis than validate it, but there aren’t a lot of incentives to go out and publish your failed experiments.
Science, Research, Publishing, Academia
17 points by Breadmaker 7 days ago | 0 comments
Elsevier may wish they had checked the revision a bit more carefully (nodebb.org)
Elsevier may wish they had checked the revision a bit more carefully.
Science, Publishing, Errors
84 points by sndean 8 days ago | 30 comments
'It gets more and more confused': can AI replace translators? (theguardian.com)
A Dutch publisher has announced that it will use AI to translate some of its books – but those in the industry are worried about the consequences if this becomes the norm
Artificial Intelligence, Translation, Publishing, Language
5 points by rntn 9 days ago | 0 comments
Ask HN: Where to put a static page that would last forever (ycombinator.com)
As I get older, I've decided to write physical books. I want something of a legacy for after I leave.
Web Development, Publishing, Legacy
54 points by DanielBMarkham 11 days ago | 93 comments
How Google Is Killing Bloggers and Small Publishers – and Why (justapack.com)
A couple of weeks ago, in a moment of caffeinated inspiration/despair, I sat down and wrote a long Facebook post as to why we were ditching Google and switching to DuckDuckGo. Today I want to dive even deeper into this topic, and give you a first-hand account of how Google is killing hundreds of thousands of blogs and small publishers.
Search Engines, Google, Blogging, Publishing
95 points by billybuckwheat 21 days ago | 40 comments
Democratising Publishing (onolan.org)
Ghost is a distributed non-profit foundation which gives away all of its intellectual property under a permissive MIT license.
Publishing, Open Source, Non-Profit Organizations
6 points by ValentineC 21 days ago | 0 comments
Democratising publishing (onolan.org)
Ghost is a distributed non-profit foundation which gives away all of its intellectual property under a permissive MIT license.
Publishing, Open Source, Non-profit Organizations
174 points by mxstbr 22 days ago | 50 comments
Pollen: A publishing system written in Racket (racket-lang.org)
Pollen is a publishing system that helps authors make functional and beautiful digital books.
Publishing, Programming Languages, Racket
179 points by nesarkvechnep 25 days ago | 21 comments
Paper mills: the 'cartel-like' companies behind fraudulent scientific journals (theconversation.com)
Science and Nature, two leading science journals, have revealed a growing problem: an alarming rise in fraudulent research papers produced by shady paper mill companies.
Science, Research, Publishing, Fraud, Academic Integrity
121 points by coloneltcb 29 days ago | 48 comments
The Tragedy of Google Books (2017) (theatlantic.com)
“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”
Google Books, Copyright, Publishing, Data Privacy
503 points by lispybanana 30 days ago | 182 comments
The Journal of Open Source Software (theoj.org)
The Journal of Open Source Software is a developer friendly, open access journal for research software packages.
Open Source, Software, Research, Publishing
35 points by gtirloni 30 days ago | 6 comments
Penguin Random House underscores copyright protection in AI rebuff (thebookseller.com)
The world’s biggest trade publisher has changed the wording on its copyright pages to help protect authors’ intellectual property from being used to train large language models (LLMs) and other artificial intelligence (AI) tools, The Bookseller can exclusively reveal.
Copyright, Artificial Intelligence, Publishing
34 points by marban 33 days ago | 56 comments
The early days of peer review: five insights from historic reports (nature.com)
The UK Royal Society has more experience of peer review than most publishers, with the practice used by its journals for nearly 200 years.
Science, Publishing, History, Academia, Peer Review
61 points by rntn 36 days ago | 32 comments
Drowning in Slop: AI Garbage Is Clogging the Internet, and It's Getting Worse (nymag.com)
Slop started seeping into Neil Clarke’s life in late 2022. Something strange was happening at Clarkesworld, the magazine Clarke had founded in 2006 and built into a pillar of the world of speculative fiction. Submissions were increasing rapidly, but “there was something off about them,” he told me recently.
Artificial Intelligence, Online Content, Literature, Publishing, Technology
27 points by haltingproblem 52 days ago | 13 comments
Pirate library must pay publishers $30M, but no one knows who runs it (arstechnica.com)
On Thursday, some links to the notorious shadow library Library Genesis (Libgen) couldn't be reached after a US district court judge, Colleen McMahon, ordered what TorrentFreak called "one of the broadest anti-piracy injunctions" ever issued by a US court.
Legal Action, Piracy, Copyright, Libraries, Publishing
113 points by ohjeez 53 days ago | 2 comments
Drowning in Slop. It's clogging the internet with AI garbage (nymag.com)
Slop started seeping into Neil Clarke’s life in late 2022. Something strange was happening at Clarkesworld, the magazine Clarke had founded in 2006 and built into a pillar of the world of speculative fiction. Submissions were increasing rapidly, but “there was something off about them,” he told me recently.
Artificial Intelligence, Science Fiction, Publishing, Online Content
9 points by jchook 54 days ago | 2 comments
U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issues broad injunction (torrentfreak.com)
A New York federal court has ordered the operators of shadow library LibGen to pay $30 million in copyright infringement damages.
Lawsuits, Copyright, Publishing, Libraries
416 points by samizdis 56 days ago | 493 comments
There is no antimimetics division V2 (qntm.org)
In fact I have two publishing deals. Some of you may have already seen this news, and you may be able to guess where this is going.
Publishing, Fiction, Books
21 points by andrewla 63 days ago | 9 comments
Google got away with charging publishers more than anyone else (20% cut) (theverge.com)
For years, Google took the same 20 percent commission for ad transactions that ran through its platform, even though it was higher than what any other industry player charged.
Business, Google, Publishing, Advertising
4 points by nabla9 65 days ago | 0 comments
The Death of the Magazine (honest-broker.com)
Magazines are businesses, much like other companies. But there’s one big difference—they almost always get smaller, not bigger.
Media, Business, Publishing
113 points by pseudolus 67 days ago | 92 comments
Academic Journal Publishers Antitrust Litigation (lieffcabraser.com)
On September 12, 2024, Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel at Justice Catalyst Law filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against six commercial publishers of academic journals, including Elsevier B.V., John Wiley & Sons, Wolters Kluwer NV, and the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), on behalf of a putative class of scientists and scholars who allege that these six world’s-largest for-profit publishers of peer-reviewed scholarly journals conspired to unlawfully appropriate billions of dollars that would otherwise have funded scientific research.
Antitrust Law, Academia, Publishing, Science
55 points by EvgeniyZh 68 days ago | 9 comments
Historical Fiction Redefined the Literary Canon (thenation.com)
In contemporary publishing, novels fixated on the past rather than the present have garnered the most attention and prestige.
Historical Fiction, Literature, Publishing, Literary Canon
7 points by lermontov 69 days ago | 0 comments
Big publishers think libraries are the enemy (citationneeded.news)
Big publishers think libraries are the enemy
Publishing, Libraries, Copyright
8 points by leotravis10 70 days ago | 0 comments
Authors fighting deluge of fake writers and AI-generated books (cbc.ca)
Copyright, Artificial Intelligence, Literature, Publishing
6 points by uladzislau 70 days ago | 0 comments
Hyphanet is a private peer-to-peer platform for publishing and communication (hyphanet.org)
Hyphanet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant and privacy-respecting publishing and communication.
Privacy, Decentralization, Communication, Publishing
42 points by raytopia 75 days ago | 16 comments
Internet Archive Loses Landmark eBook Lending Copyright Appeal Against Publisher (torrentfreak.com)
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has dealt a blow to the Internet Archive's digital book lending program.
Copyright, Lawsuits, eBooks, Digital Libraries, Publishing
11 points by RafelMri 76 days ago | 0 comments
Editor resigns after publisher blocked criticism of decision to retract paper (retractionwatch.com)
A Springer Nature journal has rescinded the acceptance of a paper criticizing the publishing giant’s controversial retraction last year of an article that surveyed parents of children with gender dysphoria, leading an associate editor to resign, Retraction Watch has learned.
Science, Publishing, Controversy, Academia
16 points by leephillips 77 days ago | 0 comments
Major book publishers defeat Internet Archive appeal over digital scanning (yahoo.com)
Lawsuits, Publishing, Copyright, Digital Libraries
57 points by Ozarkian 78 days ago | 3 comments