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Josh Bernoff, Why I took the $2,500 check to license my book for AI (bernoff.com; withoutbullshit.com redirects to it)

1 record was read from this source, dated 15 Apr 2025.

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Last checked 17 Oct 2026

What was read from it

Records read from this source
Record	Kind	As stated	Dated
HarperCollins AI training licence fee actually paid to one author for one nonfiction backlist title (Writing Without Bullshit, 2016): three-year opt-in licence, author signed and received a cheque about a month later	Price observation	$2,500 per title (author's share of the per-title fee, before the agent's 15%)	15 Apr 2025

Figures it feeds

$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