Dutch publisher VBK, acquired earlier this year by Simon & Schuster, will test out AI translation of their books into English, the Bookseller reports. According to the Bookseller, a small number of books are being translated, and only in cases when the English rights haven’t been sold. A VBK spokesperson said, “We are working on a limited experiment with some Dutch authors, for their books to be translated into English language using AI. There will be one editing phase, and authors have been asked to give permission for this. “We are not creating books with AI, it all starts and […]
Distribution: Acc Art Books
Simon & Schuster will sell and distribute Acc Art Books and its distributed partners in the US and Canada beginning May 1, 2025.
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New Poll Finds That 1/3 of Ghostwriters Make More Than $100,000
A new poll conducted by Gotham Ghostwriters has found that 1/3 of ghostwriters make upwards of $100,000 per year. Gotham surveyed 269 working ghostwriters and collaborators following the first Gathering of the Ghosts Conference, at which ghostwriters called for more fee transparency in the field. The findings of the survey reinforce PL’s reporting from earlier this year that high-quality, experienced ghosts mostly charge in the six figures for long-form projects, but provided this additional, more granular data: -25 percent of ghostwriters charged at least $100,000 for their last nonfiction manuscript -8 percent of ghostwriters charged more than $150,000 for their […]
Dreamscape Institutes Layoffs Following RB Media Acquisition
As part of the acquisition by RBmedia, this week Dreamscape laid off several people, indicated by one anonymous employee to be more than 10 positions. Dreamscape offered the following statement: “As part of integrating Dreamscape with RBmedia, it became clear that RBmedia had capacity and infrastructure that could be leveraged by Dreamscape while still enabling us to deliver the same high-level of service to authors, publishers, distributors and the narrator community. Unfortunately, this resulted in a portion of the team being given notice.”