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May 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM

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#FutureofPublishing "Éditeurs, soyez votre propre libraire" par @Numeriklivres cc @FabienFerreri @labodeledition #eBook

November 19, 2024 at 2:40 PM

Asian Council of Science Editors

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We’re just 2 days away from an insightful ACSE webinar on how #mentorship can shape the future of #medical #writing and #publication professionals.

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July 31, 2025 at 12:35 PM

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"The Journey" by @davidbpoetry for @inkglobal #FutureofPublishing "Print is still inventing"

November 19, 2024 at 2:48 PM

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June 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM

Publishers Weekly

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The U.S. Book Show 2025 is almost here! 🚨
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March 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM

Chris Dracon

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In NOLA all week for The #writerMBA and #FutureofPublishing mastermind. Really looking forward to a jam packed week

March 16, 2025 at 12:45 AM

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September 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM

Timothy Duquesne - L'avenir des pixels

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#FutureofPublishing Autopublication, avenir de l’édition électronique ? fyi @labodeledition via @FabienFerreri

November 19, 2024 at 2:48 PM

Valentine Goddard / AI Impact Alliance

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A conference for #publishers ! April 23rd in person or online participation possible.

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April 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM

New Shelves Books

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Spotify’s new Follow Along feature blends audio with custom visuals and music, turning listening into a fully immersive experience.

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Spotify just redesigned the way you'll 'listen' to audiobooks

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September 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM

Aperture Neuro

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Masson-Trottier et al. demonstrate how Neurodesk improves the transparency, portability, and sustainability of neuroimaging workflows: doi.org/10.52294/001...

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September 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM

Marketing News

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May 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM

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May 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM

WayISeeitLeenna

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I've just found out that Publishdrive verifies copyright when uploading new books. Maybe plagiarism checks are needed, too? @draft2digital.bsky.social, will you be implementing similar safeguards for authors and publishers?

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · May 5

Well, this is horrible. 📚💙

www.reddit.com/r/MM_Romance...

Hello, everyone. First-time redditor here. I made this account on behalf of my friend, who has a message to send out about an author on here plagiarizing her work. Here's her message:

Hello! Today I found out that Layla Moran has plagiarized three fanfics that I wrote and posted publicly, for free over the last few years and has published them as her own works and is selling them and making money from them. I've spent most of today collecting excerpts, filling out reports, and generally wondering what to do in this sort of situation.

People have posted on this subreddit saying, generally, they like Layla Moran's ebooks but that there are many editing errors and internal inconsistencies. This is partly because I write non-betaed fanfic and share it for fun! It is also partly because Layla Moran seems to have just done a sort of find and replace for character names and descriptions, leading to errors.

One such error that has come up multiple times in reviews is the character Diarmuid or Diamuid. Someone on The Rancher and His Mail-Order Husband wonders, "At 45% who the heck is Diamuid? It's like the author changed a character's name and missed this one. Needed a beta reader!!!" Diarmuid is the name of the main character in the movie Pilgrimage (2017), and is one of the fandoms I write for.

For more proof, please read this excerpt from my fic Bluebells and Daylillies and Wild Roses Running Rampant:

"David had almost joined their company. He’d gone nearly the entire war without being shot and damned if near the end of it all someone hadn’t gotten him right in the leg.

The surgeon had told him they needed to take the entire limb. David had grabbed his collar, pulled him close until they were nose-to-nose, and gritted out that he’d break every one of his fingers if he tried it.

He kept the leg, earned a limp, and found later, when he was beset by memories and the scent of blood and gunpowder, dizzy, pulse racing, that he’d gotten what they called the soldier’s heart, too."

Then compare it to The Rancher's Mail-Order Husband:

"Graham had come close to joining the dead himself, narrowing surviving a gunshot wound to the leg near the warn's end.

The surgeon wanted to amputate, and Graham, fueled by desperation, had snarled at him through gritted teeth, threatening to break his fingers if he so much as tried. He kept the leg but earn a limp that followed him everywhere, along with something the doctors called 'soldier's heart'--a condition that left him shaking, sleepless, and burdened with memories of blood and gunpowder."

This passage from The Beauty and His Beast is even more egregious when compared with part of my fic An Invitation to Happiness:

"Everild Reed hadn't fought for glory or gold. At the time, he thought he'd stood for God--that the king's cause, which he eagerly made his own, was not only legitimate but justified both on earth and in the eyes of Heaven. More than five years later, carved into adulthood by the sword's blade and burdened with the weight of his choices, his body a hardened knot of muscle and scarred skin, Everild knows better now."

From my fic An Invitation to Happiness:

"David hadn’t fought for glory or gold. At the time, he thought he’d stood for God—that the king’s cause, which he so readily made his own, was not only legitimate but justified both on earth and in the eyes of Heaven. More than five years later, carved into adulthood by the sword’s blade, his body a hardened knot of scarred skin, his throat ravaged by his own roars of rage and anguish, David knows better."

Layla Moran (https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19830235.Layla_Moran) has published three books that almost directly lifted from my fanfics:

The Beauty and His Beast is plagiarized from An Invitation to Happiness (https://archiveofourown.org/works/24497809/chapters/59134432).

The Warrior and the Monk plagiarizes the work how rich the earth, how bright the stars (https://archiveofourown.org/works/44139204/chapters/110991111).

The Rancher's Mail-Order Husband plagiarizes the work Bluebells and Daylillies and Wild Roses Running Rampant (https://archiveofourown.org/works/30890603/chapters/76276643).

All she's done is change the names and rearranged the order of the words, and, in one case, apparently changed a hen to a rooster to a horse and back.

I've been trying to get the word out about this, though it's been difficult since I have no idea who to go to or how to prevent someone from republishing fanfic that I wrote for fun and for free for others to enjoy. I don't have a Reddit account, or many other accounts. I post on Ao3 and tumblr and that's it. I'm sad that someone's taken my work and passed it off as their own.

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EDIT: Holy shit, thanks for all the attention this post has gotten! In just three hours, other redditors have linked some of her other works to Dragon Age fanfic (The Prince and the Commander is stolen from this fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/37497220?view_full_work=true and Married to a Fae is stolen from this fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/34368661/chapters/85523074) and I'm sure there's countless others. In fact, most likely ALL of her work is stolen from fanfic. I'm going to reach out to those authors as well to let them know.

EnduringParadox (the original author) has also been collecting screenshots as evidence and is considering her options of sending takedown notices. Here's some more evidence she found:

May 6, 2025 at 12:52 AM

PublishDrive

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Morning! ☀️ We’re in New Orleans with so many wonderful authors & publishers. If you’re here, join us this morning at the Breakfast Buffet. On Thursday, Danica will share how PublishDrive helps maximize book sales. It’s going to be a great week!

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March 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM

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🎉 We’re heading to London!

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January 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM

Cactus Communications

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Join publishing leaders in Washington, D.C., for an exclusive executive briefing. A space to connect, exchange ideas and discuss where our industry is headed.

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October 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM

Sara Rouhi

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Brand conveys trust/credibility, not the publisher platform. Can we insinuate brand into the research objects we verify without a platform? Where the objects live on their own -- without forcing them to go to one place? #futureofpublishing #scholcomm #strategies24

September 25, 2024 at 2:36 PM

Rachel F. Stapleton

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Happy #PeerReviewWeek23! And a big shout out to all the #PeerReviewers who share their knowledge, experience, & expertise by reviewing manuscripts – & help #scholars (and their #acquisitionseditors) get amazing scholarship out into the world.

#futureofpublishing #scholarlypublishing #amediting

September 26, 2023 at 1:38 PM

Dr. Daniel A. Sabol Ph.D., MSLIS., MS., CKM

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Read@ tinyurl.com/yacp352h

AI is reshaping peer review by improving speed, fairness, and accuracy, but it must be used ethically and alongside human judgment to ensure research integrity.

#AIinResearch #PeerReview #AcademicAI #FutureOfPublishing

April 21, 2025 at 4:16 AM

Aperture Neuro

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Karakuzu explores how open-source tools can support next-generation publications that are executable, sustainable, and adaptable across disciplines: doi.org/10.52294/001...

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November 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM

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