AI and the Future of the Audiobook Industry – It’s Not Either Or
The best practices will probably be somewhere in between. “Publishing professionals should...
Feb 29, 2024 | Audiobooks, Book Fairs
The best practices will probably be somewhere in between. “Publishing professionals should...
by Mark Williams | Mar 27, 2024 | Book Fairs, S.E. Asia, Thailand | 0 |
Amazon has no time for most SE Asia markets, and that has allowed Thai publishers to embrace digital options on their own terms.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Mar 25, 2024 | Philippines, S.E. Asia | 0 |
The Philippines has 37 million more people online than the UK, and 23 million more than Germany, both of which have thriving digital books sectors driven in large part by social media.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Mar 15, 2024 | ebook subscription services, Ebooks | 0 |
History suggests the payout will hover around the $49 million per month mark during H1 and climb a...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Mar 6, 2024 | Arab publishing, Book Fairs, Children's Books, Middle East, Oman | 0 |
Not, of course, that we in the west are in any position to assume the moral high ground, given the recent track record in the United States for banning children’s books.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Mar 5, 2024 | Digital Audio, Digital subscription, ebook subscription services, Hong Kong, Ireland, South Africa, Taiwan | 0 |
Those of you desperately wanting to be offended or outraged by my TNPS op-eds will have to simmer...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Mar 3, 2024 | Bangladesh, Book Fairs | 0 |
Did the Dhaka event pull in more than Cairo 2024, which this year clocked a record 4.6 million visitors?
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Mar 3, 2024 | Book Fairs, Europe | 0 |
With London and Bologna fast approaching, Frankfurt’s October dates seems an eternity away, but there will be hybrid digital rights sessions in September, and an early Bird discount is on offer.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Feb 29, 2024 | Audiobooks, Book Fairs | 0 |
The best practices will probably be somewhere in between. “Publishing professionals should...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Feb 14, 2024 | Arab publishing, Book Fairs, Iraq, MENA publishing, Middle East | 0 |
The 4th Iraq International Book Fair runs February 14 through 24 this year. Details are sparse at...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Feb 13, 2024 | Audible, Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Uncategorized | 0 |
There is no “free” involved. You pay money and then get a choice of content and...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Feb 11, 2024 | Canada, Retailer News | 0 |
Where it gets interesting is that just days before these results were announced, an investment company called Trilogy (Trilogy Retail Holdings Inc. and Trilogy Investments L.P) offered to “buy all company stock its joint actors do not currently own, for C$2.25 in cash per common share.”
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Feb 5, 2024 | Audiobooks, Finland | 0 |
“But it turned out those artsy Scandinavian films really were just artsy Scandinavian films, not documentaries. This was more disappointing for my friends than for me.”
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Feb 4, 2024 | Book Fairs, Germany, UK | 0 |
Both events were, from conception, fatally flawed – book fairs run for profit by outsiders, for an industry the organisers never fully understood or cared about.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Feb 4, 2024 | Bangladesh, Book Fairs, Egypt, India | 0 |
2024 is looking likely to break book fair records around the globe.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Feb 4, 2024 | France, UK, USA | 0 |
Whatever name the new group is given, Hachette publishing will be run to please the stock market’s fickle whims.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jan 29, 2024 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Publishing Controversies | 0 |
How many Audible subscribers, handing over a fixed sum each month for one single audiobook, also subscribe to Spotify for their music fix?
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jan 23, 2024 | AI | 0 |
The opponents of AI are missing opportunities to do deals that will favour creatives, for the sake of a sound-tough soundbite.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jan 23, 2024 | Australia, Ibero-America, Spain, USA, Wattpad | 0 |
Wattpad Webtoon will support three Queensland-based screenwriters or teams to develop film and series projects arising from Wattpad Webtoon content.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jan 22, 2024 | Audiobooks, Digital subscription, ebook subscription services, Ebooks, Film & TV | 0 |
Would a 30 second ad inserted every five or ten chapters really be more disruptive than a knock at...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jan 21, 2024 | AI, Awards, Japan, Publishing Controversies | 0 |
A book part-written by AI has won a prestigious literary award. A fatal blow to the AI Resistance, but also a whole load of trouble for lawmakers and AI regulators who thought they had the topic nailed.
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