OUP terminates US jobs, but no, AI was not to blame, so no-one will be shedding tears. Business is business!
AI not to blame? Hence the deafening silence from the industry sidelines.
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Author: Mark Williams
Nigeria’s Akada Children’s Book Festival set for October amid falling literacy standards in schools. The solution is simple
75% of Nigerian kids that cannot read simple sentences. Does anyone seriously think Nigeria got to be the economic powerhouse of Africa with an illiterate workforce?
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While trade publishers are scared to get off the AI fence, Wiley seeks more lucrative deals. Trade CEOs, wake up and smell the coffee!
With more access to trade content for training, LLMs can become more efficient in the trade sectors where it currently lags behind, opening up new revenue streams and potentially new and transformative concepts yet to be explored.
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A decade of unlimited ebook subscription. $3.5 billion paid to self-publishers
Markus, that deadline is almost up. If you wish, I can get the kids at school to make you a The End Is Nigh sandwich board so you can walk the streets of Manhattan outside PRH like Bruce Willis in Die Hard Whatever-Number-It-Was, and remind everyone just how dumb you were.
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Macmillan Education launches AI tool for teachers
But unless teachers understand prompting they are likely to not get the best from AI and offer negative feedback, so this could backfire spectacularly. I’d like to know more about how teachers are going to be trained to use AI effectively.
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