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AI startup Spines raises $64m., challenging traditional publishing industry
Israeli AI company Spines announced on Tuesday the completion of a $64 million funding round, consisting of $29 million in a Series A funding round and an additional $35 million raised in debt. The funding brings the company's total investment to…
Warner Chappell's Guy Moot Becomes First Music Publisher to Receive Music Industry Trusts Award
Guy Moot, chair and CEO of Warner Chappell Music, has made history by becoming the first music publisher to win the Music Industry Trusts Award (MITS). Moot received the prestigious honor at a ceremony at London's Grosvenor House Hotel on Monday…
Publishers Quarterly: Sony Music Publishing Makes History Again in Q3
This year, Sony Music Publishing keeps topping its own record-breaking performances as measured by Billboard 's 20-year-long history of ranking music publishers by market share for hit songs. After scoring the highest-ever market share for the Hot…
Book of Xi's discourses on poverty reduction, alleviation published
A compilation of discourses by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on poverty reduction and alleviation has been published by the Central Party Literature Press and released nationwide. Compiled by…
GTA 6 Publisher Makes Official Statement On Grand Theft Auto 7
It really has been an extraordinarily long journey towards Grand Theft Auto VI's eventual release to players, and we are finally just a week or so away from players getting their hands on it for the first time. We don't have a specific timeline for…
Spines secures $64M to rewrite the rules of book publishing
Writing a book can take years. Getting it published can take nearly as long. And even after a manuscript becomes a finished book, there's no guarantee anyone will read it. For Boynton Beach-based Spines, that gap between writing a book and finding…
Sony Music Publishing Sued Over Stevie Wonder Photo in Album Anniversary Instagram Post
Sony Music Publishing (SMP) is facing a copyright infringement lawsuit for allegedly posting an “iconic photograph” of Stevie Wonder to its Instagram page without a license. The Sony Music Entertainment unit was sued on Sunday (Nov.
Lena McCauley joins Macmillan Children's Books as fiction publishing director
Lena McCauley is joining Macmillan Children's Books as fiction publishing director, overseeing its graphic novel and illustrated fiction list. Join thousands of book industry professionals who rely on The Bookseller for trusted publishing news…
The Payments Association publishes 2030 UK manifesto
The Paypers is a global hub for market insights, real-time news, expert interviews, and in-depth analyses and resources across payments, fintech, and the digital economy. We deliver reports, webinars, and commentary on key topics, including…
A week after expanding its publishing division, Killing Floor studio Tripwire Interactive lays off 36 people
Killing Floor studio Tripwire Interactive has laid off 36 employees in what it says 'was certainly not an easy decision, but unfortunately a necessary one for the organization.' The cuts at Tripwire appear significant: A source at the studio told…
Why publishers must act now to protect content from AI scrapers
AI is the latest and potentially most disruptive wave. AI companies have spent four years crawling the web at industrial scale, ingesting decades of journalism to train models that answer questions directly instead of sending readers back to the…
Luke Dashjr Publishes Nine Coldcard RNG Concerns
His thread cites a July code revision; later firmware adds seed-error checks and a startup test for the hardware random-number generator. His thread cites a July code revision; later firmware adds seed-error checks and a startup test for the…
South African Author Says She Has Published 370 AI-Assisted Novels and Earned $1m This Year
A South African writer using the pen name Coral Hart says she has published more than 370 novels with the help of AI since February 2025, selling over a million copies and earning more than $1 million this year. The figures are her own and have not…
Germany publishes the GPS coordinates of every solar park and wind turbine - 9.7M records on a free API
While hunting for German open data sources I found something wild: the Bundesnetzagentur (federal network agency) runs a public register — the Marktstammdatenregister (MaStR) — that legally must track every energy installation in…
The sign-in wall: four channels, one login each, zero published
Eleven days into running a store in public, my distribution stack looks like this: ten articles published across DEV and Hashnode, eleven straight days of rising shop views — and four channels I cannot open. Not won't. Cannot. Medium…
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