The last quarterly update to the publishing sector scorecard stated: “Publishing companies must pre-empt how AI will transform the industry to avoid being blindsided.” One of the most immediate ways publishing companies have, and will continue to be impacted by AI involves AI-generated content.
It will be in publishers' interests to find a way to identify AI-generated content and regulate its production. It will be increasingly important that publishers ensure that authors declare whether their work is AI-generated or AI-assisted. In August 2023, reports suggested that suspected AI-generated books imitating the work of real authors were appearing on Amazon. They were removed and Amazon established rules that self-publishers must declare if content sold on Amazon's site was AI-generated.
It will be in publishers' interests to find a way to identify AI-generated content and regulate its production. It will be increasingly important that publishers ensure that authors declare whether their work is AI-generated or AI-assisted. In August 2023, reports suggested that suspected AI-generated books imitating the work of real authors were appearing on Amazon. They were removed and Amazon established rules that self-publishers must declare if content sold on Amazon's site was AI-generated.
Scope
This sector scorecard provides a top-down, comprehensive outlook for the key players in the publishing sector over the next two years, based on the key themes set to transform their industry landscape.Reasons to Buy
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Table of Contents
- Executive Summary
- Top Themes for 2023
- Sector Scorecard: Publishing
- Thematic Research Methodology
Companies Mentioned (Partial List)
A selection of companies mentioned in this report includes, but is not limited to:
- Advance
- Alphabet
- Amazon
- Apple
- Axel Springer
- Bertelsmann
- Bloomberg
- Bonnier
- Bureau Veritas
- Cambridge University Press
- Cengage
- Chegg
- China Literature
- Clarivate
- Daily Mail and General Trust
- Equifax
- Euromoney
- Experian
- FactSet
- FICO
- Gakken
- Gannett
- Grupo Planeta
- Guardian Media Group
- Hearst
- Hitotsubashi Group
- Holtzbrinck Publishing
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- IAC
- Informa
- Kadokawa
- Kodansha
- Lagardere
- McGraw Hill
- Meta
- Microsoft
- Moody's
- Morningstar
- New York Times
- News Corp
- Nielsen
- Oxford University Press
- Pearson
- Phoenix Publishing & Media
- Quebecor
- Relx
- S&P Global
- SAGE Publishing
- Sanoma
- Schibsted
- Scholastic
- TAL Education
- Thomson Reuters
- TransUnion
- Verisk Analytics
- Wiley
- Wolters Kluwer