Every week, I organize 400 to 700 links into roughly 60 categories as part of my ongoing effort to learn about AI. This is my personal notebook, which I enjoy sharing with friends… a hobby and a labor of love, rather than a commercial publication or product.
If you arrived here through a search or shared link, this page collects the links I found for Publishing for the week ending July 31, 2026.
As part of my learning process, I like to automate the category covers. It gives me a chance to learn Python and APIs.
This week’s cover prompt was written using Claude Opus 4.7, and the image was generated using Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview.
Category Cover Image Prompt: 1980s neo-noir movie poster of an open trunk of a matte primer gray 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu in a desolate loading dock at night, stacks of freshly printed newspapers and magazines bound in twine inside the trunk, a golden-yellow scorpion paperweight pinning the top copy, sodium-vapor amber light and hot magenta neon spilling across wet asphalt, deep teal shadows and crushed blacks, 35mm anamorphic grain with soft halation, the word Publishing scrawled in hot magenta-pink handwritten brush script in the upper third.
This Week in Publishing News
Summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5 based on this week’s links:
- AI books crowd out human authors: Ethan Mollick pointed to a study finding a flood of AI books. By its numbers, books with no AI earn less per book than in 2023 in 7 of 8 genres, with Fantasy/horror the exception at +35%.
- Training and the copyright question: One X post claims a judge told Anthropic that training on books was not copyright violation if the text was 'transferred' rather than 'copied,' which the poster says required destroying the books. It is a single poster's account of the ruling.
- Detecting and building with AI text: Pangram announced Pangram 4, an update to its AI-writing detection tool. Separately, Rowan Cheung of The Rundown AI discussed in a video how he grew an AI newsletter to 2M subscribers in two years.
This summary was generated by Claude Sonnet 5.5 to help you explore the links below. Rest assured, I select, organize, and check the links by hand in Google Sheets, and write the introduction and personal commentary in The Main Newsletters myself each week as a labor of love.
This week's links related to Publishing
Frontier Lab Employee Open Letter Calls For Being Able to Pace the Frontier | Don’t Worry About the Vase
https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/frontier-lab-employee-open-letter-calls-for-being-able-to-pace-the-frontier/
Nobody seems to understand this but I cannot stress enough that a judge told Anthropic that training their AI models didn’t constitute copyright violation as long as they ‘transferred’ the text instead of ‘copying’ it, legally necessitating the destruction of the books”
https://x.com/ChazakielDoremi/status/2082298594934010224
Introducing Pangram 4 | Pangram
https://www.pangram.com/blog/introducing-pangram-4
This damn near looks like a reality TV show. AI is absolutely shattering the visual Turing test.”
https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2081768951302754414
How to Hit 2M Subs in 2 Years Building an AI Newsletter | The Rundown AI, Rowan Cheung – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwoflMkwL40&t=340s
Really interesting study. There is, as everyone expected, a flood of AI books. And it is crowding out human authors: “No-AI books, on their own, earn less per book than they did in 2023 in 7 of 8 genres. The one genre where human authors are doing better (+35%) is Fantasy/horror
https://x.com/emollick/status/2082162202996347387
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