Librarians Push for Per-Use E-Book Pricing; Commonwealth Prize Uses Interviews Over AI Detectors
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Dan Holloway
Summary
This article discusses two main topics: (1) Librarians' proposal for a fairer e-book pricing model, specifically a $1 per-use licensing fee for books they want in their collections, as opposed to the current expensive single-license model from big publishers. (2) The Commonwealth Short Story Prize's approach to verifying winners through interviews rather than using AI detectors, addressing concerns about AI-generated submissions in literary competitions.
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· 2 pulledWhat it attempts to describe is what librarians actually mean when they call for fairer pricing from big publishers.
First is a distinction between books that librarians value having in their collections because a collection should have it, for which a single license fee i
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