Hachette Book Group expanded their distribution agreement with Nosy Crow. HBG has handled sales and distribution in the US and Canada for Nosy Crow since 2023.
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Libraries Digitize Works for AI Training, Public Use
Harvard University and the Boston Public Library are releasing collections of digitized materials to tech companies for AI training, the AP reports. Harvard is providing nearly one million books in 254 languages from the past 600 years, in a dataset called Institutional Books 1.0. The BPL will give collections of old newspapers and government documents. “It is a prudent decision to start with public domain data because that’s less controversial right now than content that’s still under copyright,” Microsoft deputy general counsel Burton Davis said. The library material includes original sources, which is lacking in much of the AI companies’ […]
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Obituary: Caroline Herter, 70
Former book packager at Herter Studio and publishing director at Chronicle Books Caroline Ames Herter, 70, died at her home in Bar Harbor, ME on June 12. Herter’s publishing career began as one of the original booksellers at Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver, and she went on to work in sales, marketing, and publishing roles at Harper & Row, Charles Scribner, Simon & Schuster, and Chronicle, where she was instrumental in developing the gift product line that redefined how non-book products were marketed and sold in the bookselling community and how book products were sold in the gift market. Her […]