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Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 3h
Informa weighs up a conscious uncoupling with Academic Publishing
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Informa to buy Clarion for £2.24bn and weighs separation of Taylor & Francis
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Times Higher Education hasn’t covered allegations against Cambridge academic and Reform figure James Orr, Byline Times says. Both THE and a foundation Orr helps run received Hungary-linked funding, raising doubts about conflicts of interest and editorial independence. bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán's Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations
The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose…
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"For many Black scholars, academia is a burning house. If we cannot extinguish that fire, Black scholars will always bear a greater risk of being burned–& therefore have to insulate themselves against the risk more than others." @cydneydupree.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/blac...
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Black academics face extra scrutiny. Our research shows its consequences
Scholars of colour told us they engage in strategies to make it harder for them to be dismissed as biased or lacking rigour, says Cydney Hurston Dupree
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
165 years ago TODAY, Charles Darwin had a normal one. "I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.— I am going to write a little Book for Murray on orchids & today I hate them worse than everything…" I think about this letter a lot.
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To Charles Lyell   1 October [1861] | Darwin Correspondence Project
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a lot of "oh dear" to go around in the results of this very thorough Pew study on the issues with synthetic samples, but this strikes me as particularly "oh dear" www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...
AI polling results can lean on racial or partisan stereotypes

In many cases, our AI poll took beliefs or attitudes that are reasonably common among a particular subgroup and portrayed them as nearly ubiquitous. For example, our AI poll would indicate that:

    97% of Hispanic adults are at least somewhat likely to follow the World Cup (while the actual share is 43%).
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Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A quarter of Anthropic revenue (which is dwarfed by their stratospheric costs) comes from 2 (two) clients. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
The "This is Fine" meme with the word "fine" substituted out for the term "AI"
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Craig Nicholson @clanicholson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Free to read: Horizon Europe budget shortfall already more than €150bn www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...
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Horizon Europe budget shortfall already more than €150bn - Research Professional News
Commission says EU R&I programme now unable to fund 75 per cent of high-quality applications
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Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"But seriously: a “book” like this costing $139.99 on its own, now incorporated quietly into the CDL? A book drawn only from Springer Nature content, not from the best sources available...?" www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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AI Slop Coming to University Library Near You (opinion)
Librarians must hold the gates against machine-generated titles.
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Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Tech companies must work with the research community to find a reliable and transparent way to both apportion credit and make this accessible for discoveries in the age of AI. This is not a small matter..." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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AI companies must work with the research community to protect attribution
An era-defining mathematics claim raises questions over how AI tools credit earlier work.
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Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great primer on academic (journals) publishing here from @michaelbanks.bsky.social for @physicsworld.bsky.social. Highlights the red hot topic of research integrity given the rise of "AI" physicsworld.com/a/how-scient...
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How scientific publishers are fighting back against fraudulent papermills – Physics World
The growth of AI and papermills has caused publishers countless headaches
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Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"As long as the "publish-or-perish" incentive lives on in academic medicine, journals are likely to continue to be bombarded with mediocre AI-created work," www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
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Is AI Flooding Medical Journals With 'Meaningless' Research?
'It's not fraudulent, and it's not really slop,' one expert says
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Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Business Executives are the heaviest users of "AI", as the velocity of content being fed into the woodchipper continues to rise, much of it unlicensed www.copyright.com/media-press-...
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Growth in Enterprise AI Adoption is Driving Copyright Risk, According to New Study from CCC and Outsell
September 22, 2026 – Danvers, Mass. — CCC (Copyright Clearance Center) and Outsell, Inc. today released the 2026 Copyrighted Content Usage Trends Report, showing that the velocity of externally publis...
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Incentives already exist for academics to game their article citation metrics and online mentions. What gaming might happen to get *AI* to cite and mention academic papers more too, now that this can also be quantified? www.amicitedby.ai
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Am I Cited by AI?
See how often AI tools read and cite your research.
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Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"I had a wobble, And Ray said, ‘Let’s keep that in mind’ – and also probably something along the lines of: ‘never listen to salespeople’.” On Fitzcarraldo as a chic publisher, despite - or partly because of - their (some might say Routledge 90s monograph) cover designs www.ft.com/content/fad8...
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Fitzcarraldo – inside the chicest publisher on earth
Jacques Testard is transforming our reading habits, one blue book at a time
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Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"AI has made a specific set of humanities capabilities newly legible to employers who had no prior use for them," claims OUP's "Global Academic Publisher" corp.oup.com/spotlights/a...
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AI just made the case for philosophy majors; the humanities should not waste it - Oxford University Press
Sophie Goldsworthy, Global Academic Publisher, explores how AI companies hiring philosophers may have made a compelling case for the study of humanities disciplines.
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Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Every time I try to open the Elsevier website, I am met with this ... Totally creepy.” www.theregister.com/security/202...
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Academic publisher Elsevier hit by LAPSUS$ redirect attack
Customers got crime crew's calling card instead of access to journals
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Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Activist investory builds significant stake in Informa (owner of Taylor & Francis) www.thetimes.com/business/com...
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Verifying Device
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Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Cyber attack on Hachette Australia continues to disrupt books sales logistics in the region www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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Bookstores struggle to fill shelves after cyber attack on major publisher
A cyber attack on one of Australia's major publishing distributors has left independent bookstores and authors struggling to meet customer demand.
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Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Elsevier expand their LeapSpace frontiers, also creating an Advisory Board, "bringing together AI and academic publishing specialists to provide independent guidance on the development of the platform." www.researchinformation.info/news/elsevie...
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Elsevier expands LeapSpace content and adds independent AI advisory board - Research Information
Company says AI research platform now incorporates content from more than 1,500 scholarly publishers and societies
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Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Elsevier’s extensive, 18 month long review of an OA journal to re-establish its integrity toward re-evaluation by Web of Science. Relevant for all Journals: www.elsevier.com/connect/less...
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Lessons from a large-scale audit: strengthening trust through rigour, transparency and collaboration
Behind the scenes of the Heliyon review extensive review undertaken to support re-evaluation by Web of Science
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 16/09/2026
The wonderful world of “partner journals”. Sure, you’d like to say you published in Cell, or Science, or Nature … but what about a journal and URL with those words in them but it’s Cell Contributions, Cell The Innovation, Nature Noodlings, or Science Castoffs.
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Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"A centralized online platform to access posters has long been needed" www.science.org/content/arti...
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Conference posters could garner a wider audience, thanks to a new online platform
The staple format also warrants a deeper rethink, some researchers say
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Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"OpenAI executives have denied that any employee or AI agent saw the pair’s work before the researchers released it publicly on 7 September. But there still remains a separate question: Could the pair’s work have reached OpenAI’s models through its training data?" www.science.org/content/arti...
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How an AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy
OpenAI spent millions to solve the Navier-Stokes problem, but who should get credit?
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Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“When the same gatekeepers evaluate one another’s work, scholarship risks drifting away from meritocratic service to society and towards insider interests.” www.timeshighereducation.com/news/elite-c...
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‘Elite capture’ of top journals prompts ‘gatekeeping’ concerns
Scholarship ‘risks drifting away from excellence-based peer review and towards serving insider interests’ when cliques dominate, warns study
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It turns out you can’t appease people who openly hate you and want to destroy everything you’ve ever worked for. More on this shocking news as we get it
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Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"While retractions, corrections, and concerns “do not in themselves establish misconduct or poor scholarship, their accumulation can, however, create suspicion – and potentially make Retraction Watch an unwitting amplifier of an organised campaign,” bylinetimes.com/2026/09/10/j...
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Jason Arday: The Story Behind the Story of The Times’ ‘Impossible Data’
The newspaper of record failed to distinguish between corrections and retractions in the work of the late Cambridge University academic, fuelling the media firestorm that engulfed him
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Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
US government intervention in a legal dispute between publishers and tech firms is "part of a larger effort to support AI over the interests of content-creation industries" scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/09/10/a...
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Ask the Chefs: AI and Copyright Licensing - The Scholarly Kitchen
The US Department of Justice filed a Statement of Interest in the copyright infringement litigation between The New York Times and OpenAI and Microsoft, et. al., largely siding with the AI companies a...
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Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
OUP update their policy on AI disclosure for authors www.researchinformation.info/news/oxford-...
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Oxford updates AI disclosure guidelines for academic authors - Research Information
Research found widespread uncertainty among academic authors over when artificial intelligence use should be disclosed
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Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Founding CEO of Bloomsbury to step down as part of a five-year succession plan www.reuters.com/legal/transa...
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'Harry Potter' publisher Bloomsbury's founder Nigel Newton plots CEO handover after 40 years
Bloomsbury Publishing is turning the page on a new chapter, unveiling plans on Tuesday ​for founder Nigel Newton to hand over within two years the chief ‌executive role he has held at the "Harry Potte...
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Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Journalology round-up of results from RELX (Elsevier), Springer Nature, Informa (Taylor & Francis), and Wolters Kluwer newsletter.journalology.com/p/2026-half-...
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2026 half-yearly updates
How did Elsevier, Springer Nature, T&F, and Wolters Kluwer perform in the first half the year?
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Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
How do government departments use academic research and evidence? New report from me for @dcmsgovuk.bsky.social focused on creative industries policy as a case study www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Knowledge, evidence and the use of research in creative industries policy: DCMS Skills and Diverse Workforce Policy Fellowship Report
The final product from Professor Dave O’Brien’s Department for Digital Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Skills and Diverse Workforce Fellowship.
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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Suspect that the tl:dr is that human experts using AI can now achieve a lot in a short space of time. openAI will try to spin the humans out of the story as far as possible.
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Hi Homer, I recently came across The Iliad and was blown away by its expansiveness, its humanity, and its complex use of . Have you considered new ways to promote your book and expand its reach across various platforms? I would love to connect and hear your ideas. Kind regards, Apollonius
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 07/09/2026
Writing some scientific workflow slides for this week’s MPTC class.
Research workflow for those branches of the sciences where the important thing is to become famous.
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I picked up a copy of the collected letters of JRR Tolkien for reasons, and this is the most bullshit table of contents I've ever seen. I'm actively angry that it exists
Contents

Introduction - vii

Foreword to the Revised and Expanded Edition - xi

Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien - 1

Notes - 607

Index - 637
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Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Wiley financials latest: Research ↗ (OA & Emerald acquisition) Research "Solutions" ↘ (AI licensing) www.researchinformation.info/news/wiley-r...
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Wiley research publishing revenue jumps 12pc on OA growth and Emerald acquisition - Research Information
$13 million contribution from Emerald Publishing following completion of the acquisition during the quarter
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Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The US Federal Trade Commission is being urged to investigate AI companies for buying, scanning and destroying books to train AI www.axios.com/2026/08/21/f...
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Exclusive: FTC urged to investigate AI firms for destroying books
Groups are urging the agency to examine the practice of buying, scanning and destroying books to train AI.
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Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Bloomsbury Publishing H2 2026 Earnings Call included mention of "Bloomsbury Brain" to "support pricing, forecasting and operational decisions."
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Bloomsbury Publishing H2 Earnings Call Highlights
Bloomsbury Publishing (LON:BMY) reported higher profit and earnings despite a year-over-year revenue decline, as management pointed to the resilience of its mix of consumer and academic publishing and said it expects to deliver record profit in the current financial year. Founder and Chief Executiv
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Penny Welch @pennywelch2025.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Oxford University Press strikes amid further redundancies and relocations
Workers at Oxford University Press are set to take strike action next month amid further redundancies and nearly 50 roles being relocated to India.
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 29/08/2026
This thread by @cblevins.bsky.social is really thoughtful about the challenges agentic AI poses to online teaching, which largely can’t be solved by shifting assignments to analog & in-class work Every degree of distance—online, asynchronous, etc.—compounds the issue & huge % of students are online
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Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change." The Leopard 🧵1/2
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Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I was moved to write a definition of this kind of thing at work some years ago in the face of a lot of empty use of the terminology. Obviously I failed. share.google/AsO0Qz4WYBUJ...
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Researcher Workflow
The scholarly publishing sector is going through a period of “digital transformation”. As publishers seek to find opportunities beyond…
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Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"an edited book is a thing of beauty – greater than the sum of its parts and a fine example of academic solidarity" said someone share.google/Dugxis4pltzu...
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There IS Value in Adding to an Edited Collection!
Routledge's Terry Clague sheds reasonable doubt on the assertion that contributing to edited book chapters is"akin to burying your research."
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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
39 years ago, in hardback, my first novel was priced at £9.99 (£36 in today's money). My new one will be £20 if you pay full price. Books have become such a ridiculous bargain, really. (Thought prompted by visiting the booking site for a West End play where the few remaining tickets are £215 each.)
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Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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It sure looks like Jason Arday was horrifically wronged
The media’s profound ignorance of academia is a deadly problem
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Jason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his death - www.middleeasteye.net/news/jason-ar…
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Jason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his death
Claims the late academic made which were widely derided as false in media and online discourse this month appear to be true, an MEE analysis has found
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
There's a whole bunch of white male academics who were told that their era is up, and who are now organising. I mean C'mon, this is a MUCH bigger story than the Arday one.
Screen capture of the David Starkey Talks. of Starkey and Cofnas grinning. Starkey says after Arday's resignation : the reason we are grinning is that we are enjoying vengeance.
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Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying them in the process ... The logo of the team that works at this warehouse is a dinosaur, brandishing its teeth and with a book in its hands." www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
2025 saw strong growth in US HE "course materials" publishing revenues though declines from professional & scholarly publishing publishers.org/news/aap-sta...
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AAP StatShot Annual Report: Publishing Revenues Totaled $33.4 Billion for Calendar Year 2025 - AAP
Today, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) released the StatShot Annual report covering the calendar year 2025, estimating that the U.S. publishing industry generated $33.4 billion in aggrega...
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Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Growing population of 18yr olds in the UK, probably peaking in next few years. The "top" universities share those spoils - more bums than seats - an expensive student experience in a very difficult graduate jobs market.
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