18+ hour, 1+ min ago   (398+ words) Adrian Tchaikovsky is a British science-fiction and fantasy writer known for a wide-variety of work, including the Children of Time, Final Architecture, Dogs of War, Tyrant Philosophers and Shadows of the Apt series, as well as standalone books such as…...

12+ hour, 59+ min ago   (463+ words) Jill Lepore, a professor of American history and law at Harvard University, a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine, and a prolific author of popular books, has a new title out called “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (792+ words) At an industrial facility on Nicco Way, on the northeast edge of the Las Vegas Valley, workers manually feed books into machines that slice off their bindings. A worker inserts a book, presses a button and watches as a blade…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (552+ words) Why books still matter in the age of AI. U.S. District Judge William Alsup issued a landmark split ruling in [Bartz v. Anthropic] that found AI training on legally obtained books is fair use, but acquiring those same works from pirate sites…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (284+ words) OLEAN — Noted author and essayist Bob Kunzinger, a journalism graduate of St. Bonaventure University, will appear for a reading and book signing event at 1 p.m. Saturday at Untold Stories Bookstore on West State Street. Kunzinger's "Curious Men: Lost in the…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (503+ words) In Haarlem, the Netherlands, bookseller Pieter de Vries received an unusual request. A contact named Natalia or Nataly said she was acting for 2077AI. This Singapore-based foundation presents itself as specializing in data for artificial intelligence. According to the email and…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (404+ words) At the legal level, the judge ruled that using legally obtained books to train AI constitutes fair use, and format conversion to digital copies is also valid. However, the article emphasizes that the deeper issue is not the "book destruction…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (699+ words) Books are a valuable part of our cultural heritage. They are preserved and made accessible in libraries (in this case, the SUB Göttingen). Foto (ed.): mibuchat, CC BY-SA The retro-digitization (usually referred to simply as “digitization”) of books is typically…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (294+ words) Are We Still Reading If AI Reads The Book For Us (Picture Credit - iStock) It sounds enormously useful. It also raises a question publishing has barely begun to answer: if AI increasingly mediates our relationship with books, what exactly are…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (231+ words) The targeting of books is as old as the book itself. Books have been censored, banned, torn, burnt, and pulverised to suppress opposing views, enforce state ideologies, silence uncomfortable truths, or for being deemed heretical. Why are these two different…...