Category: Publishing Brief
What is “western publishing”, anyway?
Trade fiction, academic works, comics, audiobooks and digital serials are all being reimagined- from Tokyo’s manga cafés to Dubai’s audiobook studios. And all too often it is the “west” that is playing catch-up and copy-cat.
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Exploring the New Horizons of Co-Publishing: A Case Study from Tamil Nadu Courtesy of Bologna
it’s interesting to contrast the way Bologna continues to expand its international footprint, and in particular its embrace of India while Frankfurt and London look the other way.
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USA – Bowker and IndieCommerce Boost Independent Bookstore Digital Sales With Book2look. A Global Perspective
Book2look has already generated over 250 million views, demonstrating its effectiveness.
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The Guardian Partners With OpenAI While Simultaneously Fuelling The Luddite Fringe Fire
Memo to Microsoft – I’ve got some backlist titles and a struggling school where kids cannot imagine what £20 looks like, let alone £2,000, if you’d like to get in touch!
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India Leads the World in Literary Events Says Frankfurt. Porter Anderson Will Get a Memo Shortly from Buchmesse HQ to Look Up India on the World Map
India participates each year at the Buchmesse through the National Book Trust, but the Buchmesse presence in India has been, shall we say, casual?
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NetGalley Unveils Major Upgrade to Reading Options with New In-Browser Reader
NetGalley members will, it seems, enjoy quicker and more secure access to digital review copies, while publishers benefit from first-of-its-kind content protection.
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The World’s Youngest Female Magazine Columnist
AlDhabi has a fantastic future ahead of her. I hope, like me, she finds career contentment that will last a lifetime.
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Multinational Acquisitions of Indie Presses: Implications for Australian Publishing
Most of what happens in Australia stays in Australia, especially publishing news. But when PRH makes an acquisition down under, this is apparently important for us up top to know about.
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Alpine Global Collective: Transforming Publishing Consultancy
“What began as a casual conversation between publishing consultants at an international book fair has evolved into a pioneering consultancy model.”
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Everand’s State of Reading Report 2025 Is A Little Self-Serving But Still Insightful. But Avoid The Images!
If the intention was to give AI imagery a bad name, you nailed it.
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Just for fun, here’s my 2024 LinkedIn Rewind, by Coauthor
But perhaps most telling was watching academic publishers embrace AI while trade publishing CEOs hid behind their bestselling authors. Wiley pocketed $44 million from AI deals while the Society of Authors demanded authors be allowed to opt out of the future.
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PW special edition on ‘Printing and Paper Suppliers’ scheduled for February
Hopefully we’ll get some insights into how AI is helping transform the print and paper sectors, but this report will also come just as the new Trump tariffs will, for better or worse, be impacting the world.
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