book piracy Archives

Meta Considered Using Pirated Books for AI Training, Kindle Policy Change Sparks Debate: Self-Publishing with ALLi Featuring Dan Holloway

On this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi podcast, Dan Holloway reports on Meta’s internal discussions about AI training, revealing that the company considered using pirated books to train its language models. Court documents show Meta abandoned licensing talks with publishers after realizing they didn’t have the rights to AI training data. Meanwhile, Kindle’s recent policy change regarding USB book transfers continues to stir debate, and World of Books expands into the US resale market.

Self-Publishing News: Google Faces Algorithm Leak and Legal Action Over Pirated E-Books

Google has had a tough time of late. But before spending too much time bowing away at the world’s tiniest violin, it’s worth considering how many of their woes they have played at least a part in making. There's the algorithm leak and legal action over pirated e-books.

Book Piracy: What Indie Authors Should Do When a Print Book Gets Pirated

You finally hit publish and have your masterpiece in both physical and digital hands. And then someone pirates your book. Book piracy feels horrible and scary and hopeless. So what can you do about it and what is the impact? Today, the Alliance of Independent Authors welcomes and thanks member Rob Biesenbach for today's article all about what to do when your book gets pirated.