Breaking indie news for authors who publish themselves.
5 briefs in this drawer.
The Atlantic documents AI-generated titles published under real authors’ names. Fans have bought them. Amazon removes listings after a complaint — and does not check authorship at upload.
TechCrunch reports newly unsealed material in the Times v. OpenAI case, a week after the US Justice Department backed OpenAI’s fair-use argument.
ALLi and The Bookseller now put the UK service’s failure at around 100 authors and 164 titles, with unpaid royalties and print stock still in the chain.
Scammers impersonate large reader groups, pitch an ‘author spotlight’, then invoice hundreds of dollars for a post the moderators never approved.
ALLi’s news editor flags an appeal over reduced legal fees that could delay the $3,000-per-title payments, plus a Guild survey on who actually registered the copyrights.
