Hacker News with Generative AI: Publishing

ePub 3.3 Recommendations (w3.org)
The Publishing Maintenance Working Group (PMWG) is pleased to announce the final update of the W3C Recommendation for EPUB® 3.3.
Publishing, Standards, EPUB, W3C, Open Source
8 points by pentagrama 3 days ago | 0 comments
Nobody Wanted to Publish Frank Herbert's Dune Except a Car Repair Manual Company (jalopnik.com)
In case you've recently returned from years of self-exile, or awoken from a decades-long breakdance-related coma: Welcome! The year is 2021, and just last week visionary director Denis Villeneuve released his take on Frank Herbert's classic novel Dune. While Dune the movie is the absolute center of the current zeitgeist, we're here to talk about Dune the book — and its interesting ties to automotive history.
Dune, Books, Publishing, History, Automotive
7 points by voxadam 4 days ago | 0 comments
The Value of Differences: Jennifer Lindsay on Noticing Translation (sydneyreviewofbooks.com)
International literary prizes and book reviews are increasingly acknowledging the importance of translated work. However, as Jennifer Lindsay argues, while translators themselves are receiving acclaim, their art remains largely underappreciated.
Translation, Literature, Publishing, Awards
31 points by Thevet 5 days ago | 26 comments
Inside ArXiv (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.
Science, Research, Open Access, Publishing
166 points by fprog 7 days ago | 29 comments
METS, the Middle English Texts Series (metseditions.org)
Due to the recent termination of almost all NEH grants, METS needs your support today!
History, Humanities, Fundraising, Publishing, Middle English
61 points by lordleft 11 days ago | 13 comments
Audiobooks vs. Printed Books: a debate as a reader and an author (newsandreviews.substack.com)
On Monday morning this week I started a dot point list of notes I wanted to hit in this week’s bad review, then I looked up and it was lunchtime and I was 1200 words into something much, much bigger.
Audiobooks, Reading, Writing, Publishing
32 points by zeristor 13 days ago | 68 comments
Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic (theatlantic.com)
Puzzle Games, Online Communities, Success Stories, Publishing
981 points by brgross 18 days ago | 169 comments
Publishers say traffic to their sites has plummeted due to Google AI Overviews (bloomberg.com)
In the absence of clear answers from Google, creators have struggled to discern how much of their pain is due to AI Overviews or due to other changes in search.
Google Search, AI, Publishing, Traffic, News
19 points by coloneltcb 18 days ago | 7 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, Humanities, Publishing
45 points by benbreen 26 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
31 points by xqcgrek2 28 days ago | 27 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
306 points by pcfwik 28 days ago | 53 comments
Published doesn't mean paid (ghost.io)
I want to talk about money.
Publishing, Finance, Freelancing
54 points by Anon84 28 days ago | 68 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 30 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 30 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 33 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 34 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 34 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 34 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 35 days ago | 55 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 35 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 38 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 39 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 43 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 44 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 44 days ago | 0 comments
Bill Bryson: Too many people publishing their own books (thetimes.com)
Publishing, Books, Opinion, Authors
9 points by bookofjoe 46 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 50 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 53 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 61 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 64 days ago | 7 comments