Thomson Reuters announced Tuesday a deal to form a joint venture with private equity firm KKR, which will pay approximately $500 million for a 51 percent stake in Thomson’s Global Print business. That business comprises Thomson’s legal and tax information books, sold in print and through their ProView platform, as well as the company’s book printing division. Thomson Reuters will retain “full editorial control over its content portfolio.” The joint venture will “hold an exclusive license to distribute the content in print and on ProView, Global Print’s eBook platform.” Thomson Reuters stock has suffered this year, as investors fear AI […]
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New Books Publishing July 14
This week’s fiction releases include stories by Sigrid Nunez, and new novels by Julie Buntin, Jean Kwok, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, while nonfiction includes work by Pamela Colloff, Ben Barnes, and more. 37 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-july-14?page=1 15 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-july-14 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming months on Bookshop. Check out July‘s 119 fiction releases, 30 works of nonfiction, and 25 children’s titles, and August‘s 105 fiction releases, 20 works of nonfiction, and 25 children’s titles, and September‘s […]
Liveright Pulls Kerri K. Greenidge Book From Website Following Controversy
Liveright has removed Kerri K. Greenidge‘s 2022 book The Grimkes from its website following a Tufts University review that turned up multiple factual errors and issues with citation. Greenidge, who was a tenured associate professor in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts, has left the university. The book had received the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize from the American Historical Association, among other honors. Tufts launched a peer review by external scholars after receiving complaints about errors in the book. The NYT writes, “Several other scholars, who described themselves as skeptical of some of Greenidge’s assertions […]
People 7/13
Publishers File Novel, Winnable AI Suit, Alleging Google Raided Google Books and Play Files to Train Gemini
After literally dozens of metoo infringement lawsuits against the AI titans in multiple jurisdictions, on Friday three publishers filed a suit against Google in the Southern District of New York that stands on new, undisputable legal ground if supported by the facts. They allege that Google “illegally copied works” from such “scope-limited programs” as Google Books, the Google Play ebookstore, and Google Scholar in order “to train early iterations of the Gemini [AI] Models.” That behavior would be clear copyright infringement, outside of any conceivable Fair Use defense or other grey area related to the transformative development of AI models. […]