Niche Online Publishers Bank on Subscriptions Over Advertising

November 1, 2017By rightstech

As more niche sites go this route, firms like Substack are offering suites of tools geared specifically toward helping independent subscription publications with hosting, publishing and billing.

Source: Niche Online Publishers Bank on Subscriptions Over Advertising – WSJ

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When AI Writes On Spec

By Paul Sweeting

The deal to settle the Writers Guild of America strike last week could achieve more than to bring an end to one of the longest work stoppages in Hollywood history. It is likely to prove a benchmark agreement for other unions and professions looking to protect their members from the threat to their livelihoods from generative AI, not least the still-on strike Screen Actors Guild. The WGA managed to wrangle firm limits on the studios' ability to use of AI to generate scripts without the credited involvement of a human union writer while preserving enough flexibility, for themselves and the studios, to use the technology to increase productivity. And, as Cornell University professor of labor and industrial relations Adam Seth Litwin suggested in an op-ed in Friday's New York Times, the balance the deal strikes could prove a model for workers beyond Hollywood looking to negotiate their own technological transitions.

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