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about the war against the Internet Archive :
🔁 https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/13/news-publishers-are-now-blocking-the-internet-archive-and-we-may-all-regret-it/

News Publishers Are Now Blocking The Internet Archive, And We May All Regret It
Last fall, I wrote about how the fear of AI was leading us to wall off the open internet in ways that would hurt everyone. At the time, I was worried about how companies were conflating legitimate …

An investigation finds 50 apparently fake experts who offered commentary to the UK press in recent years, getting featured 1,000 times in various articles (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/named-50-experts-and…

Named: 50 'experts' and linked brands publishers should treat with caution
Experts and brands associated with more than 1,000 likely faked stories.

Ubisoft entlässt 55 Angestellte bei Massive Entertainment und Ubisoft Stockholm
Ubisoft streicht 55 Stellen, unter anderem bei Massive Entertainment. Zuvor hatte der Publisher den Angestellten die Möglichkeit gegeben, freiwillig zu gehen.

farewell to my one true book format. #books

Penske Media sues Google for allegedly monopolizing the digital ad market and depriving publishers of billions in revenue, following a 2025 US court ruling (Josh Dickey/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/public-polic…

Penske Media Sues Google Over Accusation of Digital Ad Market Manipulation
Penske Media Corp., the publisher of major entertainment and culture brands including Rolling Stone, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, sued Google on Monday, accusing the tech giant of illegally monopolizing the digital advertising market and depriving publishers of billions of dollars in revenue.

R. Bruce Dold, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the Chicago Tribune, where he became editor-in-chief and publisher, is dead at 70 (Trip Gabriel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/us/politics/bruce-dold-dead.html

R. Bruce Dold, Chicago Tribune Publisher and Pulitzer Winner, Dies at 70
As head of the editorial page, he encouraged The Tribune’s support of Barack Obama, resulting in the paper’s first endorsement of a Democrat running for the White House.

In UK parliamentary testimony, a Google executive says the company should not be required to license "freely available" open web content for AI training (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/google-ai-training-pay-opt-…

Google IP boss: We shouldn't pay for AI training on 'freely available' content
Google's global IP boss has said the tech giant does not believe it should have to pay to use "freely available content" for AI training.

Circana BookScan: US print book sales hit 762.4M units in 2025, up 0.3% YoY, settling at levels higher than before the pandemic; graphic novels saw a 9.2% rise (Jim Milliot/Publishers Weekly)
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-top

Print Book Sales Rose Slightly in 2025
A mild rebound in children’s book sales helped to offset softness on the adult side, resulting in a 0.3% increase in unit sales of print books in 2025 over 2024. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins was last year’s top-selling title.

UK sports publisher GRV cut ~60 staff since September, reducing its workforce to 94, citing drops in Google traffic; other sports sites report similar declines (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/uk-based-sports-publish…

UK-based sports publisher cuts 60 staff due to Google updates
UK-based sports website publisher GRV Media has let go of 60 staff since September as a result of falling Google referral traffic.

Sources: Amazon is planning a marketplace where publishers can sell content to companies offering AI products; Microsoft has rolled out a similar service (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amazon-discusses-ai-content-marketpla…

Amazon Discusses AI Content Marketplace With Publishers
Amazon has indicated to publishing industry executives that it is planning to launch a marketplace where publishers can sell their content to firms offering AI products, according to two people who spoke with Amazon about the project. Those discussions come as publishers and AI companies are ...