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A shared robots.txt token proposed at the IETF would let a site tell several AI companies at once not to train on its pages. Support arrives over the coming months and into 2027.
A practical ten-step walkthrough for creating a Facebook Page as an author, from choosing the name and category to linking your books, posting and planning for ads.
Meta's updated Commercial Terms, which cover anyone running a Page or ads, let it pull content from linked websites. The Copyright Alliance wants them withdrawn before they take effect Nov. 20.
On October 19, two complaints in the Northern District of California named 60 and 57 authors suing Meta Platforms. They want a jury to set statutory damages, and they allege a book-scanning operation called Project Vellum.
A New York judge sent the Elsevier, Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Cengage and Scott Turow suit against Meta to California, where six similar cases sit.
Meta's cap of two link posts a month is still reaching Facebook Pages unevenly. Author Update's hosts say the free book link was already reaching almost no one.
Some Facebook Page managers now see a cap of two link posts a month, while Meta's new business plans list links in organic posts as a paid feature. What authors should do about it.
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