Published on November 18, 2023
amazon, Censorship, legal
MORE: Our tax dollars are supporting bigoted, discriminatory college campuses; Authors says adults and teachers are influencing students’ protests against Israel; IDF forces found a copy of Hitler’s antisemitic work “Mein Kampf” in a child’s room of a home in Gaza with terrorist’s notes in it; Scarlett Johansson sues after AI uses her likeness and voice; Boss of the American Federation of Teachers blamed for rise in homeschooling’; YouTube requiring disclosure of AI-generated content; Finnish lawmaker wins another ‘hate speech’ case over quoting the Bible; NewsGuard’s for-profit censorship model; and Should Google have to pay news organizations for links and snippets?
Published on November 10, 2023
amazon, Print on demand, self-publishing
Public domain books have become the pariahs in the industry.
Published on November 10, 2023
amazon, Censorship, Journalism, legal
MORE: Celebrity’s audiobook is 48 hours long!; The original story of The Exorcist; Literary legend haunted a hotel for 50 years before leaving; NYT is hiring an AI Editor; Should journalists stand by and take pictures while a massacre occurs?; Jewish journalist in NYC gets bodyguard due to threats; Yale student’s pro-Israel column was edited in school paper; New York Times writer resigns over letter accusing Israel of genocide; Kirk Cameron helps launch nationwide school program to provide wholesome children’s books; Newspaper workers sues, said he was laid off because he’s white; Amazon has laid off 27,000 people this year!; and Amazon hit with another class action lawsuit over refunds on returned products
Published on October 14, 2023
amazon, Censorship, diversify your writing income, legal
MORE: CBC leaked emails instructed reporters not to call Hamas fighters “terrorists”; Can an author force a school district to purchase his/her book?; LeVar Burton replaces Drew Barrymore as host of National Book Awards; Spotify to publish audiobooks but apparently agents and authors were not notified; and Book business applauds government lawsuit against Amazon.
Published on September 30, 2023
amazon, Censorship, copyrights, legal
MORE: Education Secretary Cardona rips ‘misbehaving’ parents; Supreme Court could alter the way Americans interact on the Internet; University hires professor who once threatened NY Post reporter with machete; Lost Truman Capote story found and published; The one book your child needs to read; Google Search caught publicly indexing users’ conversations with Bard AI; Newspaper runs robot-written op-ed opposing AI in journalism; Amazon sued by FTC for “warping prices” and more!; and German govt. gave pro-pr*stitution book to children
Published on September 22, 2023
amazon, author scams, Print on demand, self-publishing, writing scams
One company. Three huge red flags!
Published on September 7, 2023
amazon, Censorship, legal, libel
MORE: Did court clerk in Alex Murdaugh case overstep her role to land a book deal?; Coach who got job back after Supreme Court ruled he could pray on field quits, claims retaliation; Startling revelation about Biden’s in a new book; Mexican parents gather to burn textbooks; Can a foreign country order U.S. tech companies to censor U.S. citizens?; Two men arrested for reading Bible verses in public; ChatGPT making up fake Bible verses; and FTC to sue Amazon later this month.
Published on August 25, 2023
amazon, Censorship, legal, libel
MORE: Op-ed sexual harassment allegation leads to lawsuit; Man gets physically removed from school board meeting for reading aloud a book with strong s*xual content made available to children; School board members not allowed unannounced school visits? What are they hiding??; As writers’ strike continues, studios are posting jobs for AI experts paying up to $1M/year; Bloomsbury Publishing exec, 45, dies in boating accident; Teacher fired for reading inappropriate book to fifth graders; Judge rules AI-created art isn’t copyrightable; Kansas reporter accused of breaking law before controversial Marion County newspaper raid; Nursery pulls book shown to four-year-olds that depicts men kissing in bondage; AI to binge LAPD bodycam footage to weed out rude tone, aggressive language; and Amazon Prime show allegedly used woman’s story, but did not credit her.
Published on August 11, 2023
AI, amazon, copyrights, legal
MORE: Woman sues after AI results in her arrest; State pulls funding from the American Library Association (ALA) after they elect an openly Marxist president; Shame on College Board!; and Obama biographer probably won’t be getting any new biography jobs after he spilled the beans.
Published on July 28, 2023
amazon, Defamation, legal, libel
MORE: Jeff Bezos’ newspaper on track to lose $100M this year!; Student suspended for creating, posting funny pictures of principal on his own time; Journalist upset about sordid allegations against him; Santa Barbara News-Press closes, still owes employees final checks; Hospital wins millions for defamation against defendant who didn’t show up for court; Evidence that China’s communist party has their feet in U.S. schools’ curriculum; Some paid protestors in the U.S. didn’t know their “employers” are foreign governments trying to divide our citizens.
