Mexican cartel drones breach #US airspace, are disabled
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/politics.html#4

#Publishers Weekly Highlights ‘Before the Flood’ as
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc.html#Palestine

Cowardly #LA Mayor Karen Bass FLEES reporters after
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/uk.html#4

Rotherham #United Reaction - Brian Barry-Murphy
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/cities.html#34a

#China consumer inflation rises less than expected in
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/business.html#49

Orioles’ #Jackson Holliday set to miss start of regular
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc.html#India

From the “Scholarly Kitchen” blog, a post about a big decrease in user #click-through to #search results #links, aka #zero-click search, thanks to #AI. The decrease is stripping away #publishers’ #credibility & making them #invisible. https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/04/responding-to-the-threat-of-zero-click-search-and-ai-summaries-how-do-we-tame-the-crocodile/

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/02/09/cloudflare-google-search-monopoly-ai-data-advantage-xcxwbn/

Cloudflare: Google Abuses Search Monopoly for 4.8x AI Data Advantage

#AI #Google #Cloudflare #BigTech #Search #AITrainingData #AICrawlers #AITraining #Content #Publishers #SearchResults #SearchEngines

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/02/05/substack-data-breach-exposed-700k-users-emails-phone-numbers-xcxwbn/

Substack Confirms Breach Exposed 700K User Emails and Phone Numbers

#Substack #Cybersecurity #DataBreaches #SecurityBreach #Publishing #Publishers #SocialMedia #Cybercrime #CyberThreats #PhishingAttacks

@RaymondPierreL3 I once read an article that nowadays, for every freshly published real book you can find #ASlop and #AIScam with nearly or the same title on #Amazon, often connected with fake biographies of the real authors. And even big #publishers are losing a lot of money due to more invisibility ... but they don't talk about it. (Can't refind the article).
Slowly, some voices are becoming louder: https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/11/at-frankfurt-french-publishers-face-ai-and-second-hand-book-threats/

#bookstodon #writers #writingCommunity #books #authors

Great. More "based on your interests" crap 🙄

Bold Call: #AI will rewrite #publishers’ websites in 2026 https://digiday.com/media/bold-call-ai-will-rewrite-publishers-websites-in-2026/

#personalization #optimizingengagement #agenticAI

Publisher guidelines ~
"We want your offerings. A flower, a candle, a memory. Altar is a space for your mythic and elemental stories. We want poetry that isn’t afraid of the darkness and revels in the light. That understands tension and feels like an ancient whisper from the forest floor. Stories and essays that transport us to other realms. Art that could live in a grimoire. Reviews that introduce us to new perspectives. Recipes and spells that nourish and conjure"

#Publishers #Submission

Microsoft's new Publisher Content Marketplace will pay to license your content for AI use https://www.seroundtable.com/microsoft-publisher-content-marketplace-40875.html

#microsoft #ai #content #publishers

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/02/04/microsoft-publisher-content-marketplace-ai-licensing-xcxwbn/

AI Training: Microsoft Launches Publisher Content Marketplace for Content Licensing

#Microsoft #Google #OpenAI #BigTech #Publishers #Copyright #WebScraping #AIModels #GenAI

"We often say words have meaning. But they have more than meaning. They’re a kinetic force—able to cut, convince, and comfort. They linger. They travel.
And when you find the right words—or even when you’re still reaching for them—send them out into the universe. Whatever you’re offering, there’s someone out there ready to receive them."

#Publishers #Writing #Words

5/ A US federal district judge just dismissed the #antitrust case against six academic #publishers (Jan 30, 2026).
https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/myvmqlljdvr/24-cv-06409-HG%20Uddin%20v.%20Elsevier%20B.V.%20et%20al.pdf

Article about the dismissal:
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/academic-publishers-defeat-lawsuit-over-peer-review-pay-other-restrictions-2026-01-30/

"The four scholars, scientists and professors who filed the lawsuit in 2024 had not shown sufficient evidence of a conspiracy involving publishers Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons, Sage Publications, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wolters Kluwer."

#Monopoly #PriceFixing #USLaw

@__hetz @vantablack @fuchsiii do I excuse this "jankyness"?

• Fuck no!

But I do blame the #developers / #publishers of the #Games and not #SteamOS because unlike the underlying #Linux one cannot really optimize the closed-source binary game or just recompile it with optimized settings for the #SteamDeck...

• I mean, Video Codec Issues are as old as #PCgaming and #Cutscenes, espechally when you have to deal with cursed shite like #IndeoVideo instead of #BinkVideo...

PV至上主義の先へ　 AI エージェント が書き換える読者体験
https://digiday.jp/publishers/bold-call-ai-will-rewrite-publishers-websites-in-2026/

#digiday #DIGIDAY #Publishers #有料記事 #記事のポイント #AI

Google は「必要悪のインフラ」か？　トラフィック38％減でも離れられないSEOジレンマ
https://digiday.jp/publishers/media-briefing-the-anatomy-of-the-publishers-seo-dilemma/

#digiday #DIGIDAY #Publishers #有料記事 #記事のポイント #AI

"This shift is gradual, not binary. #Directvisits still happen. #Search still sends traffic. But the proportion is changing, and as AI intermediaries become more capable and more widely used, that proportion will continue to shift. #Publishers whose revenue depends on attention are feeling this now, and it will become more pronounced over time.
#Theweb will continue to change into the future; this isn’t a single switch being flipped, but a #migration."

https://j.cv/the-economics-of-synthesis-2-5/

"#News #publishers limit #InternetArchive access due to #AI scraping concerns."
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news-publishers-limit-internet-archive-access-due-to-ai-scraping-concerns/

PS: I'm one who thinks AI training on copyrighted content is #FairUse and (separate point) even desirable in the case of academic research.
https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/113443473594224752

But this kind of training will create huge collateral damage --indirectly through publisher action -- if it diminishes the @internetarchive.

#Copyright #Journalism

Publisher guidelines ~

"In general we are looking for character-driven stories that subtly examine flaws and/or strengths of human nature. Put us under a microscope. Tell us something true, tell us something strange, tell us how to be human."

#Publishers #Submission

Publisher guidelines ~

The Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction seeks articles relating to literary and historical approaches to fairy tales, fantasy, Gothic, magic realism, science fiction and speculative fiction for Gramarye, its peer-reviewed journal published by the University of Chichester.

https://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/2025/09/21/call-for-submissions/

#Publishers #Speculativefiction #Article

Google AI Overviews "Show more" button takes you into AI Mode, leading to fewer clicks to websites but hey, Google said users like it - so I guess screw publishers https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-overviews-follow-up-ai-mode-40823.html

#google #googleaioverviews #googleaimode #publishers #seo

Publisher guidelines ~

"We are not a vanity press—you will never pay to have your work published with us."

#Publishers #Submission