Dan Holloway, Author at The Self-Publishing Advice Center

Self-Publishing News: AI Cracks Deepen as ChatGPT Fires (then rehires) Boss

This week, OpenAI briefly went into what has felt like meltdown as it sacked its longstanding CEO, Sam Altman. There is no official word as to the reason for the firing, with cryptic messages about candid communication. But there are several theories around the real reason for the breakdown.

November 23, 2023
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Self-Publishing News: Baillie Gifford Study Shows Commercial Value of Literary Prizes

Baillie Gifford study boasts a spectacular headline figure for winners when looking at the four weeks prior to and subsequent to winning from 2016. Catch up on all the details with the Self-Publishing News update.

November 21, 2023
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Self-Publishing News: Change to the Way TikTok Pays Creators

On today's ALLi Self-Publishing News we ask, how do we get paid for the items we create when the people who enjoy them don’t purchase things item by item? And specifically, how does TikTok pay creators?

November 16, 2023
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Self-Publishing News: Lawsuits – Amazon Takes on Scammers and Mixed Success in Artist Lawsuit Against Stability AI

Amazon is taking on a group of people and companies exploiting Amazon’s name. And artists against Stability AI lawsuit has hit the rocks. After reporting several times about Amazon’s experience on the receiving end of legal proceedings, it’s good to be able to report on an action that Amazon is bringing.

November 11, 2023
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Self-Publishing News: When Rishi Met Elon – What Actually Happened at the AI Safety Summit?

What happened at the UK's AI Safety Summit, and what are the implications of AI and copyright that authors need to be prepared for? ALLi News Editor Dan Holloway reports on the summit and its effects on copyright.

November 9, 2023
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Self-Publishing News: KDP Launches Artificial Audiobook Narration in Invitation-Only Beta

Last week Amazon announced the launch of virtual voice narration. The tool will enable authors to turn ebooks into audiobooks using a variety of artificially generated voices.

November 7, 2023
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Self-Publishing News: UK Publishers and Writers Groups Call for AI Protection as a new Tool Enables “Data Poisoning”

You will remember that European writers’ groups used the AI Safety Summit as a chance to ask for greater AI protection for creative artists in law. This week it is the turn of UK groups, including the Society of Authors, Publishers’ Association, and Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Agency.

November 4, 2023
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Self-Publishing News: How Governments Oversee the Technology We Rely On

The governance of technology affects all of us who use technology - whether we use it to create or to consume. And increasingly we do both.

November 2, 2023
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Self-Publishing News: X to Introduce Two New Payment Tiers as Engagement Declines

Twitter was once home to a thriving writing and reading community but now with declining engagement, they're launching two new payment tiers. It’s almost a year since Elon Musk took over what was then Twitter. In that time it feels, looking on, as though the platform that was once home to a thriving writing and reading community has lurched from one crisis to another. ALLi's News Editor Dan Holloway reports.

October 31, 2023
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Self-Publishing News: StreetLib, the Fediverse, and Chaucer – the Latest Digital Tools

It’s time for a round-up item here at ALLi's Self-publishing News column, bringing together three fascinating and useful things that have come my way in the past week or so: Streetlib, Fediverse & Chaucer Catalogues. Collectively, I hope they provide variety and more than a little practical help.

October 28, 2023
Dan Holloway
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Self-publishing News: European Writers Use Frankfurt Book Fair to Demand AI Transparency

Publishers have used Frankfurt Book Fair to launch a statement calling for a big push from Europe’s legislators on AI. It comes also against the backdrop of the EU’s AI Act, which was proposed earlier in the summer.

October 26, 2023
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Self-publishing News: When Writing Meets Reality – A Look Back at a Week of Conferences

The end of last week, you won’t have failed to notice, saw conference season in full swing. The 75th Frankfurt Book Fair is one of the big events of the literary calendar. And capping it off was ALLi’s Self-publishing Advice Conference.

October 24, 2023
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