#publishers

· 17mo ago

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Update. "Since 2017, the #UK has mandated organisations employing more than 250 people to publicly report their annual #gender #PayGap…Every science publisher pays men more than women. In 2024, the lowest median pay gap favouring men was 9.5% (#SpringerNature), followed by #Sage (13.3%), #Wiley (17.7%), and #Informa (formerly Taylor & Francis) (22.7%). #Elsevier remains an outlier in the magnitude of its gender pay gap and in the lack of progress. Eight years ago Elsevier stood out among publishers, with a median pay gap in 2017 of 40.4% in favour of men over women in its UK business…Elsevier’s median pay gap for 2024 is 32.8%, maintaining its position as worst performer among peers over all eight years of mandatory reporting." https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0004673 #Publishers #ScholComm

Gender pay gaps and inequity at science publishers

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Gender pay gaps and inequity at science publishers

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Author Help @authorhelp@gts.phillipsuk.org

· 1mo ago

Boosted by @fedicat@pc.cafe

This year's FediBookFair will be 7th/8th November. FediBookFair is a chance for #authors and #publishers to post about their books using the #FediBookFair hashtag. #Readers can watch or follow the hashtag to find #books to read and authors to follow. It's an excellent chance to find #Christmas gifts. Full details at https://AuthorHelp.uk/FediBookFair/ Boosts appreciated. #author #WritersOfMastodon #writing #WritingCommunity #bookstodon

Fediverse Book Fair (#FediBookFair) - Author Help

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Fediverse Book Fair (#FediBookFair) - Author Help

The Fediverse Book Fair will take place during November. Authors & publishers will post about their books, offer signed copies, etc

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FediFollows @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services

· 1mo ago

📚️ #IndependentPublishers to follow: @canongatebooks@bookish.community - Award-winning independent publisher, Margaret Atwood, Yann Martel, Irvine Welsh etc @bwjewishhistory@babka.social - Small indie Jewish history press @ArachnidPress@mastodon.scot - Indie publishers based in Scotland, thriller & mystery fiction @WTPress@wandering.shop - Indie sci-fi & fantasy press in Wales @ododopress@bookstodon.com - Speculative fiction press based in Uganda @StelliformPress@mastodon.online - Indie literary press, sci-fi, fantasy, horror on environmental crisis #Publishers #Books #Fiction

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Author Help @authorhelp@gts.phillipsuk.org

· 2mo ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

The next #FediBookFair will be 7th/8th November. #Authors and #publishers are invited to post about their books, or related subjects like research, using the #FediBookFair hashtag. They can also run competitions, offer signed copies, etc. #Readers can watch or follow the hashtag to find #books to read and authors to follow. Full details at https://AuthorHelp.uk/FediBookFair/ Boosts appreciated. #author #WritersOfMastodon #writing #WritingCommunity #bookstodon

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Fediverse Book Fair (#FediBookFair) - Author Help

The Fediverse Book Fair will take place during November. Authors & publishers will post about their books, offer signed copies, etc

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Daily CyberSecurity @DailyCyberSecurity@infosec.exchange

· 3mo ago

Prominent publishers re-evaluate Google partnerships as Google AI Overviews traffic decline severely impacts organic search referrals and audience growth. #Google #AIOverviews #SEO #SearchTraffic #Publishers

Google AI Overviews Traffic Loss Drives Publisher Backlash

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Google AI Overviews Traffic Loss Drives Publisher Backlash

Prominent publishers re-evaluate Google partnerships as Google AI Overviews traffic decline severely impacts organic search referrals and audience growth.

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Klaudia (aka jinxx) @viennawriter@literatur.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

Today at #Metropolcon2026 I was allowed to give an update on what’s possible with AI and which uses are better ideas than others. In the afternoon I had the honour to be on a panel with Neil Clarke, Mikko Rauhala, Cora Buhlert and Sheri Singerling: Generative AI and Publishing - A Bad Mix? #AI #GenAI #Publishing #Writing #Translation #AuthorBusiness #Publishers #Metropolcon #Eurocon #Eurocon2026

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Sophia Jane Hayden, Author @sophiajanehayden_author@indieauthors.social

· 4mo ago

Just throwing it out there. I'm asking for a Vietnamese neighbor who is writing her memoir. Does anyone know of a legit book editor who speaks fluent Vietnamese and could help this 80-year-old woman tell her exciting story of fleeing North Vietnam during the war? The details of her life are amazing, but she needs help with the writing and editing. I would hate it if someone tried to scam her. Thanks. #vietnam #editor #writingCommunity #writersCoffeeClub #writersofMastodon #writers #writer #editorial #publishers #author #mastodon #fediverse #social #scribesAndMakers #editor #AmEditing #editing

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TechCrunch @techcrunch@robot.villas

· 4mo ago

Cloudflare's new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers' content https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/cloudflares-new-policy-pushes-ai-companies-to-pay-for-publishers-content/ #AI #Cloudflare #Publishers

Cloudflare's new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers' content | TechCrunch

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Cloudflare's new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers' content | TechCrunch

Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI training and agents, or risk being blocked by default on many publisher sites.

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Regina Kammer @kammerotica@mastodon.world

· 6mo ago

Elsevier, Cengage Learning, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishers, McGraw Hill, and bestselling author Scott Turow have joined together to file a class action lawsuit against Meta and its founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, for willful infringement of millions of works, torrented via pirate sites, to develop Meta’s Llama large language models. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyright/article/100329-publishers-file-infringement-lawsuit-against-meta-zuckerberg.html #Authors #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #ClassAction #Publishers #PiratedBooks #MetaAI

Publishers File Lawsuit Against Meta, Mark Zuckerberg

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Publishers File Lawsuit Against Meta, Mark Zuckerberg

For the first time, five book and journal publishers have banded together to charge an AI company with copyright infringement in building their large language models.

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kkarhan @kkarhan@jorts.horse

· 6mo ago

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@pheonix@hachyderm.io Like for real, #Steam dominates because they turned an Online - #DRM into a #feature that people literally harrass #developers & #publishers into supporting... Not only because it's cheaper and more convenient in many if not most cases, but because it's seen as "added value" due to #reputation-based, #ServerSideAnticheat across the platform!

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