Category: Amazon
Amazon is an AI Tech Company. Why Does it Get a Free Pass from the UK’s Publishers Association and the Society of Authors?
by Mark Williams | May 18, 2025 | AI, Amazon, Publishing Controversies, UK | 0 |
Amazon now has nailed its publishing industry AI colours to the mast. We cannot have one rule for Amazon and another for every other AI company.
Read MoreThe Publishing Industry’s Divergent Reactions to Amazon and AI Companies: A Study in Hypocrisy and Dependency
by Mark Williams | Mar 22, 2025 | AI, Amazon, Publishing Controversies | 0 |
Joke of the Month: “The Trump-Vance FTC will never back down from taking on Big Tech” – US Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson.
Read MoreA decade of unlimited ebook subscription. $3.5 billion paid to self-publishers
by Mark Williams | Sep 10, 2024 | Amazon, ebook subscription services, Ebooks | 0 |
Markus, that deadline is almost up. If you wish, I can get the kids at school to make you a The End Is Nigh sandwich board so you can walk the streets of Manhattan outside PRH like Bruce Willis in Die Hard Whatever-Number-It-Was, and remind everyone just how dumb you were.
Read MoreAmazon to Consolidate Amazon Studios and MGM Teams Following Layoffs, as 5% of Audible staff are fired
by Mark Williams | Jan 13, 2024 | Amazon, Audible, Film & TV | 0 |
On the bright side, there is no indication that AI is to blame, so the rest of the infotainment industry need lose no sleep conjuring up righteous indignation over the news.
Read MoreAmazon Q3 results are out. Nothing about publishing. But 33 mentions of AI that the industry needs to wake up to
by Mark Williams | Oct 30, 2023 | AI, Amazon | 0 |
As we clearly see in the Q3 report, Amazon understands and is going all out to exploit AI’s...
Read MorePublishers rejoice as FTC grapples with the Frankenstein’s monster the publishing industry created
by Mark Williams | Sep 29, 2023 | Amazon, Publishing Controversies, USA | 0 |
When it comes to playing the victim card and putting on raucous demonstrations of self-righteous...
Read MoreAmazon pays out almost $50 million to self-pub authors using Kindle Unlimited ebook subscription service as August US print market slows
by Mark Williams | Sep 22, 2023 | Amazon, Digital subscription, ebook subscription services | 0 |
It will be interesting to see what, if any, changes the new PRH CEO Nihar Malaviya will make to...
Read MoreUncounted by Circana Bookscan or the AAP, ebook subscription service Kindle Unlimited paid out $278.2 million in royalties in H1 2023 (up 10.7%), mostly to self-publishers
by Mark Williams | Jul 30, 2023 | Amazon, ebook subscription services, Ebooks, USA | 0 |
Until the industry acknowledged these uncounted additional revenue and unit numbers, the picture...
Read MoreU.S. Publishers hit by “suspect” Amazon sustainability goals in Europe
by Mark Williams | Jul 17, 2023 | Amazon, Europe, USA | 0 |
Sales numbers on books that had previously been imported to Europe via Amazon have fallen by as...
Read MoreStorytel Norway stands accused of favouring own content as Amazon rakes in cash from the books and music of its Prime Video success
by Mark Williams | May 1, 2023 | Amazon, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Film & TV, Global Publishing, Publishing Controversies, Storytel | 0 |
Whosoever owns the platform owns the algorithms and can pretty much dictate what succeeds by...
Read More5,000 words, but the Amazon CEO letter to shareholders offers little promise for the publishing industry
by Mark Williams | Apr 15, 2023 | Amazon | 0 |
One cannot help but feel no news is bad news for an industry which has for so long allowed itself...
Read MoreTNPS on LinkedIn – Round-Up # 7
by Mark Williams | Apr 14, 2023 | Amazon, Azerbaijan, Book Fairs, Children's Books, Ibero-America, Latin America, Mexico, Philippines, Spain | 0 |
With so much publishing industry news and debate, there’s never time for TNPS to cover it all. But...
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