America’s reading crisis is a crisis of the classroom
Americans don’t read. Might it be because a lot of them were never taught properly?
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Two Kinds of Money: What China’s AI Crackdown Reveals About Publishing’s Real AI Divide
China shut down AI companion apps on July 15 — the same day Bloomsbury quietly banked record profit from licensing its books to AI. The trade/academic divide, explained.
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The Geopolitics of the Bestseller: Why The Atlantic’s Doctor Zhivago Myth Fails the Reading Test
The Atlantic used Doctor Zhivago to argue Americans once read harder books. The real story is a CIA operation, a refused Nobel, and a translation quirk — not declining minds.
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The Hand That Feeds: Publishing’s AI Hypocrisy Problem
Major publishers condemn AI as theft while deploying automation to cut narrator, translator, warehouse and operational jobs. TNPS examines the selective labour theory behind publishing’s AI moral framework.
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IPG Adds Five Publishers to Sales & Distribution Roster
IPG signs five publishers to its sales and distribution programmes from June 2026, spanning children’s, educational, business, and translated literature.
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Two Reinventions, One Industry: Frankfurt and the Trade Press Find Their Footing
HarperCollins DE’s Frankfurt withdrawal, the Buchmesse’s hall restructuring, and Publishing Perspectives’ genuine editorial transformation signal a trade press growing up.
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Manta Expands into Manga Market with Kodansha Partnership
Manta expands from webcomics into manga with 400+ Kodansha titles including WIND BREAKER, targeting 19M+ users in all-in-one digital storytelling push.
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Elliott Advances IPO Plans for Barnes & Noble and Waterstones
Elliott Management advances plans for multibillion-pound IPO of Barnes & Noble and Waterstones, with London listing favoured and bank appointments expected early 2026.
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Storytel. Spotify. Now Audible. Audio, Text, and the Physical Book Slowly Converge
Audible, Spotify, and Storytel are collapsing the boundaries between audio and text. What it means for rights, royalties, AI — and the reader who never reads.
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Amazon’s AI Content Marketplace: The Emerging Details
Amazon plans AWS-integrated AI content marketplace rivaling Microsoft PCM. Publishers sell training data via Bedrock. Unconfirmed, but leverages cloud dominance.
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Academic Publishers Win Another Anti-Trust Law Suit
US federal judge dismisses antitrust lawsuit against Elsevier, Springer Nature and other major academic publishers, ruling that industry practices do not constitute illegal collusion under Sherman Act.
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Superman Comic Sells for Record $15M Million. What This Means for Publishing (And for Me!)
Record $15M Superman comic sale signals new era for publishing professionals examining alternative investments and cultural asset values in rare publications.
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