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Slate, Arcadia Publishing: Your town's local history books might be used to train A.I.

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Record	Kind	As stated	Dated
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	Price observation	$1,020, or $340 per book per title (author's royalty, one-time use)	3 Nov 2025
What one Taylor & Francis author says they earned for their book under the publisher's AI training licence to Microsoft	Price observation	only $97 per book (author's royalty)	10 Jun 2025
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.	Supply fact	nearly 17,000 titles	3 Nov 2025
Opt-in book licences pay authors several times what opt-out ones do	Negotiation lever	Where authors had to opt in, HarperCollins paid them $2,500 a title. Where inclusion was…	3 Nov 2025

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
Kind
Price observation
As stated
$1,020, or $340 per book per title (author's royalty, one-time use)
Dated
3 Nov 2025
What one Taylor & Francis author says they earned for their book under the publisher's AI training licence to Microsoft
Kind
Price observation
As stated
only $97 per book (author's royalty)
Dated
10 Jun 2025
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.
Kind
Supply fact
As stated
nearly 17,000 titles
Dated
3 Nov 2025
Opt-in book licences pay authors several times what opt-out ones do
Kind
Negotiation lever
As stated
Where authors had to opt in, HarperCollins paid them $2,500 a title. Where inclusion was…
Dated
3 Nov 2025

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