A company contacts a publisher to correct an outdated author byline, job title, company description, or slogan. The publisher agrees. Kind of. They’re happy to make the change. But only after the company pays an “editorial processing fee.” That should be a red flag for all of us. Unfortunately, I can see a not-so-distant future in which “edits for AI” becomes the next publisher money grab. And we’ve seen this before. After Google began cracking down on manipulative links, penalized websites were expected to show they had made a “good faith effort” to remove them before submitting a disavow file. Publishers quickly realized they had leverage.…
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