"Sam Jordison, co-director of Galley Beggar and adviser for Books By People, said that the initiative is incredibly important for publishers, for authors and, most importantly, for readers. It is both a seal of quality and an assurance of the shared humanity that we look for in books. I'm very proud to be the publisher who will have the first stamp and it feels very fitting that that stamp should go on Telenovela, a book about the fight for truth and against authoritarianism."
"The launch comes at a moment of heightened tension between the creative industries and AI companies. Earlier this year, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5bn to authors who accused the company of using pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot. Moves to foreground human creativity are gaining traction. In August, Faber applied a human-written sticker to copies of Sarah Hall's Helm. At the time, Faber CEO Mary Cannam said the publisher's logo will always represent this human-written provenance."
Books By People launched an Organic Literature certification to verify and label human-written books. Organic Literature stamps will be placed on books written by humans, with only limited AI use permitted for tasks such as formatting or idea generation. The start-up was founded by rare books specialist Esme Dennys with Conrad Young and Gavin Johnston and plans global expansion in 2026. Initial publishing partners include Galley Beggar Press, Bluemoose Books, Snowbooks, Scorpius Books and Bedford Square Publishers. The first certified title will be Telenovela by Gonzalo C Garcia, published this November. Publishers qualify through commitment to standards, annual spot checks, and pay fees based on title volume. The move follows industry tensions over AI training and efforts to foreground human creativity.
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