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
$1,020, or $340 per book per title (author's royalty, one-time use)
Dated 3 Nov 2025Source checked 15 Oct 2026Quote found on its page again 17 Oct 2026Basis: reported
In the source's own words
“That pushed her to take the A.I. deal for all three of her titles, equating to $1,020, or $340 per book”
Where it was read
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- What one Taylor & Francis author says they earned for their book under the publisher's AI training licence to Microsoft
- 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
What it is about
- Arcadia Publishing
- The History Press
- Text and archives
Figures it counts in
- $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