Publishing

Inside Microsoft and OpenAI, there’s worry about damaging the publishing industry

Publishers argue that the tech companies violated copyright law by scraping millions of their stories off the internet and other databases, and using the text, without approval or pay, to train advanced AI systems.

The Odyssey scholar Emily Wilson, a critic of the movie adaptation, is redoing her translation

Emily Wilson’s original interpretation of The Odyssey became a bestseller after it was released in 2017.

Forbes fired top editor after discovering he received secret $7.7 million payment

Forbe’s chief content officer Randall Lane was paid by RJ Shook, whose company, Shook Research, has partnered with Forbes since 2016 to publish rankings of wealth advisers.

Millions of burnt books show how 'war of endurance' is hurting Ukraine

FILE PHOTO: Books burn at the site of a book warehouse hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, August 1, 2026. REUTERS/Volodymyr Pavlov/File Photo

Publisher Simon & Schuster defends Cambridge professor in plagiarism row

Jason Arday’s backstory, detailed in his memoir “Great and Unfortunate Things” set to be published in August by Simon & Schuster UK, has also attracted attention.

New York Times’ slower subscriber growth in busy news cycle sparks share sell-off

Publishers are operating in a crowded market, where big tech firms and artificial intelligence platforms impact search and referral traffic, while trust in news is shrinking.

To sell Homer’s Odyssey, rival book publishers get creative to attract readers to their editions

Copies of several translations of Homer’s Odyssey in New York, July 15, 2026. The market for the epic poem is as crowded as a certain Ithacan palace, and publishers have had to get crafty to attract readers to their editions.

Vietnam arrests publishers of book on Communist Party founder

Field Notes from Tokyo

Japan’s creative fight to keep bookstores from turning their last page

Magmabooks, which opened at the Toranomon Hills complex in April 2025, aims to bring visitors on a journey of self-discovery through books that answer philosophy questions such as (left) “What is a country? What is democracy?”.

‘AI simply can’t replicate it’: Japan embraces the zine trend

Newspapers being transported by machinery at the Kyoto Shimbun factory in Kumiyama, Kyoto prefecture, on March 19.

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