Category: Publishing News
Rearranging the Deckchairs: As B&N Preps For IPO, TNPS Looks At The Reality Behind The BookTok-Led Retail Revival
Barnes & Noble’s expansion and BookTok hype suggest a retail boom, but the data tells a different story. We’re not growing the market—just reshuffling it.
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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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A Record Number Of Submissions For The British Book Awards 2025 Independent Bookshop of the Year
The shops will compete first to win their regional titles (the regional and country winners of the award will be announced on 11 March) before vying for the overall prize, which will be announced at The British Book Awards ceremony on 12 May.
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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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USA – Authors Guild Federal Court Victory: Arkansas Book Ban Declared Unconstitutional
“When we allow broad restrictions like Act 372, we don’t just silence authors – we deny readers, particularly young people, the opportunity to see themselves and understand others through literature” – Mary Rasenberger.
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No sign of Gordon Gekko at the 2024 Global 50 CEO (Simon & Schuster/KRR) Talk at Frankfurt
“Not opening the floodgates” (Richard Sarnoff, KKR) is a concession that AI content will flow regardless, and the right way forward is to learn to manage that flow, not try to dam it.
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69% of Oxford University Press (OUP) revenues come from digital
Memo to Markus Dohle: that’s ever so slightly more than 20%. The OUP annual report and among...
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Restructuring at PRH -meaningful, or musical chairs?
In the wake of the Court debacle that led to Markus Dohle’s long-overdue resignation, the...
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Wiley soars thanks to “Record research output and content consumption, robust online enrolment growth, and broad digital courseware adoption”
The pandemic is accelerating trends including a global increase in the demand to publish and...
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PRH Canada devolves RH and Knopf in move that weakens the argument against the Penguin Random House acquisition of Simon & Schuster
The move is not related to the Simon & Schuster buyout, and was initially planned for the...
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