only $97 per book (author's royalty)
What one Taylor & Francis author says they earned for their book under the publisher's AI training licence to Microsoft
Dated 10 Jun 2025Source checked 15 Oct 2026Quote found on its page again 17 Oct 2026Basis: reported
In the source's own words
“Bloomberg quoted one anonymous Taylor & Francis author who claimed to earn only $97 for ceding their book to the training maw.”
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- AI training royalty per title paid to History Press (Arcadia Publishing) authors who stayed in Arcadia's 2025 sublicence to an unnamed technology company; one author took it for three titles
- Arcadia Publishing, the US local-history publisher (History Press, Belt, Pelican imprints), has a catalogue of nearly 17,000 titles and sublicensed some of them to an unnamed technology company for AI training in two rounds in 2025.
- Opt-in book licences pay authors several times what opt-out ones do
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- $2,750 per book or titleText and archives, sales that happened, per book or title
- $881 to $3,082 per book or titlePublic prices for text