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Honored beyond words. #ClassDismissed #firstgen

Congrats to Roshan Paul & Thomas Gries for winning a PROSE Award in the Engineering & Tech category! 🏆 If you'd like to read their outstanding deep dive into sustainability in the textiles industry, you can order their book online now at a discount: buff.ly/oDPBRoq

Celebrating our award-winning authors! 🏆🎉 At the 2025 PROSE Awards, eighteen of our titles were honoured for excellence in scholarly publishing. Read more about our six subject category winners and twelve finalists. 📚 🔗 cup.org/4lglI0t

"A pair of briefs filed in Kadrey v. Meta...present compelling arguments against finding that Meta’s unlicensed copying of millions of books to train its generative AI product Llama is fair use." illusionofmore.com/shedding-light…

Great AI story w/a brilliant quote highlighting importance of human intelligence: "If we don't fight, it's not just money," Taplin warned in the panel's most forceful moment. "It's the culture itself that is going to be destroyed.” via Publishers Weekly

ICYMI "there has never been a more important time to protect the rights and economic value of authors who shed light on the world we inhabit." via IOM illusionofmore.com/shedding-light…

As generative AI forges ahead unfettered, leaders in the creative industries are asking for licensing frameworks that protect creators while enabling innovation. New platforms and software are bringing solutions closer, but much remains unknown. buff.ly/EkpOXBp

This now feels like an existential struggle. It is about how we value our creative output, what others see in what we do and how we stand up for it, says Philip Jones in this week's editor's letter 👇 thebookseller.com/comment/lets-n…

“We are proud of the extraordinary commitment of private sector publishers to deliver high-quality course materials at reduced costs, a reflection of their expertise and innovations in the education-technology space.” - Maria Pallante via Publishers Weekly publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/in…

From numerous amicus briefs being filed in Kadrey v. Meta to our #WorldIPDay panel & #AI Forum co-hosted with @americanpublish, last month was packed with news, and you can read all of it in our April Roundup blog! bit.ly/4jTzrZz

In April, Association of American Publishers and the Copyright Alliance hosted a first-of-its-kind forum in DC, titled "The Story Starts with Us: Protecting Human Creativity in #AI," to explore the intersection of creativity & emerging AI tech. Learn more here! bit.ly/43G3AH7

"A focus on the danger that #AI poses to #copyright and the #book ecosystem was uppermost on the agenda at the Association of American Publishers (AAP) annual (virtual) general meeting" via The Bookseller thebookseller.com/comment/ai-top…

"AAP chief Maria A. Pallante and HarperCollins’ Brian Murray describe ‘an unprecedented legal battle with Big Tech’ because of AI." via PubPerspectives publishingperspectives.com/2025/05/the-aa…

AAP’s Annual Meeting: Stark Comment on AI and Copyright | Porter Anderson publishingperspectives.com/2025/05/the-aa… Association of American Publishers | AAP chief Maria A. Pallante and HarperCollins’ Brian Murray describe ‘an unprecedented legal battle with Big Tech’ because of AI.

"Protection of copyright has always been a top priority for the Association of American Publishers, and that point was driven home again during the organization’s annual meeting held via Zoom on May 8." via Publishers Weekly publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/in…

AAP’s StatShot: Some US Market Slippage in February | Porter Anderson publishingperspectives.com/2025/05/aaps-s… Association of American Publishers | In February, trade paperback and hardback formats declined 1.4 percent and 4.9 percent respectively over the same month last year.

AAP StatShot: The Overall US Market Rises 7.3 Percent in March | Porter Anderson publishingperspectives.com/2025/05/aap-st… Association of American Publishers | After the mild slide of February’s StatShot, the Association of American Publishers’ March report sees the trade up 4.4 percent over March 2024.

Two exiled Belarusian publishers share Prix Voltaire for defending their language and culture reut.rs/4mJ936V reut.rs/4mJ936V

Ebooks and Common Sense in Course Materials goodereader.com/blog/digital-e… via @goodereader

ICYMI, new Student Monitor research finds that Affordable Access programs have driven a 54% decline in student spending on #highereducation course materials over the past decade. #quality #affordable #college #university via Good e-Reader goodereader.com/blog/digital-e…