The lawsuit accuses Google of illegally copying millions of works to train its Gemini AI service which, the publishers argue, is already being used to flood the marketplace for books with “AI-generated substitutes.”
AAP Announces 2026 PROSE Award Winners, with Cambridge University Press Taking the R.R. Hawkins Award
Cambridge University Press Managing Director Mandy Hill said receiving the prestigious R.R. Hawkins Award was “a real honor for Cambridge” and “an extraordinary achievement” for Eltis.
As Key Hearing Draws Near, Publishers Defend Their Bid to Join Authors’ Copyright Lawsuit Over Google’s AI Training
In a February 5 brief, the publishers stressed that their intervention in the case was necessary to ensure “the publishing industry’s discrete interests are fairly treated” and rejected Google’s “over-the-top” opposition to their joining the litigation.
AAP Announces Tyrrell Mahoney as Its Next Board Chair
Mahoney, who has served as President of Chronicle Books since January 2017, succeeds HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray.
Publishers Move to Join Copyright Lawsuit Over Google’s Gemini AI Product
“This case will address a fundamental question of the AI era: what responsibility do AI companies have to copyright owners whose works they’ve stolen to build their trillion-dollar businesses?” By Andrew Richard Albanese, Editor-in-Chief he Association of American Publishers (AAP) this week announced that two of its member publishers—Cengage Group and Hachette Book Group—have filed a motion to intervene as …
Association of American Publishers Announces This Month’s Revenue Report
The Association of American Publishers released October 2025 StatShot report noting revenue is up 6.7% over October 2024 and 0.4% so far this year.
AAP’s July StatShot Sees US Market Down 4.2 Percent
In adult books, net sales fell 13.6 percent in July’s United States market, remaining down 5.9 percent year-to-date.
AAP’s International Award Goes to Russian-Ukrainian ‘Freedom Letters’
The Association of American Publishers’ 23-year-old International Freedom to Publish award toes to Georgy Urushadze.
Transatlantic Comments on the Anthropic AI Settlement
‘A clear win for rights holders with copyright registered in the United States,’ the Judge Approves the Anthropic settlement.
AAP’s StatShot: US Industry Was Down 1.3 Percent in June
The United States’ market, according to the Association of American Publishers’ StatShot report, was down in June 1.7 percent year to date.