The Keyword is Dead: How LLM Search Transforms Book Discovery
A deep dive into the seismic shift reshaping how readers find books - and what publishers must do about it
Nov 14, 2025 | AI, Publishing Brief, Publishing Controversies
A deep dive into the seismic shift reshaping how readers find books - and what publishers must do about it
by Mark Williams | Nov 17, 2025 | Africa, Digital Libraries, Rwanda | 0 |
De Marque launches in Rwanda, highlighting the country’s rise as a digital publishing hub and its growing potential to transform reading and education.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Nov 17, 2025 | AI, Retailer News, USA | 0 |
Independent bookshops have a huge opportunity to use operational AI, as shown by Swoon City. Why the industry’s fear is costing indies a revolution.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Nov 16, 2025 | Education Publishing, UK | 0 |
The industry is now paying the price for its dependency on a single, volatile customer.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Nov 15, 2025 | AI | 0 |
Japanese publishers unite to demand OpenAI address copyright infringement by its Sora 2 AI; Sam Altman pledges stronger protections for creators.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Nov 14, 2025 | AI, Publishing Brief, Publishing Controversies | 0 |
A deep dive into the seismic shift reshaping how readers find books – and what publishers must do about it
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Nov 9, 2025 | Global Publishing, Greece, Morocco, Sharjah | 0 |
Sharjah and Athens, former UNESCO World Book Capitals, discuss how the title fosters lasting cultural infrastructure, publishing partnerships, and global literary networks.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Nov 9, 2025 | Africa, Book Fairs, Libya | 0 |
Libya’s cultural diversity is a source of strength, not division, says symposium at Benghazi Book Fair, emphasising culture’s role in national unity and identity.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Nov 9, 2025 | India, South Asia | 0 |
The CLF Literati Awards are part of the 13th edition of the CLF Literati 2025, scheduled to take place on November 22-23 at Sukhna Lake, Chandigarh.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Nov 9, 2025 | Audible, Audiobooks, Digital Audio | 0 |
Amazon’s lavish Harry Potter audio production showcases audio’s potential but reveals why such scale remains impossible for most publishers to replicate.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Nov 8, 2025 | Africa, Nigeria | 0 |
LCCI calls for policy reforms to revive Nigeria’s N300bn publishing sector, tackling import dependency & advocating for local content enforcement.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Nov 8, 2025 | AI, Education Publishing, UK | 0 |
Analysis of the UK PA’s response to the curriculum review, arguing it cherry-picks findings to lobby against Oak National Academy.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Oct 25, 2025 | AI | 1 |
The publishing industry has never met a technological advancement it didn’t fear. AI is just...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Oct 4, 2025 | AI, Publishing Controversies | 0 |
In an era when anyone can generate a book, being able to create one worth reading becomes more valuable than ever.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Sep 12, 2025 | Dubai, MENA publishing, United Arab Emirates | 0 |
the summit marks a critical moment in the Gulf’s cultural calendar, with a high-profile presence of senior executives from three of the western publishing industry’s top players, Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Sep 4, 2025 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, ebook subscription services | 0 |
Now it’s back. Estonia next month and 6-8 further new markets in the next few years.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Sep 4, 2025 | AI | 0 |
This democratisation of articulate communication represents a net positive for human discourse. More voices can now participate meaningfully in complex conversations. More ideas can be expressed clearly and persuasively. More people can contribute to the great ongoing human conversation about what matters most.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Sep 2, 2025 | AI, USA | 0 |
Anthropic, on the strength of the settlement and cave-in by the authors’ class action, has just pocketed another $13 billion in F-series funding, and now has a market value of $183 billion. You couldn’t make it up.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Aug 31, 2025 | Turkey | 0 |
Kurdish literature in Turkey faces relentless censorship and oppression, but continues as a resilient form of cultural resistance and survival.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Aug 29, 2025 | AI, USA | 0 |
Anthropic was not willing to gamble. And equally, nor was the Luddite Defence. Both sides opted to play safe, and the industry will live with the consequences.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Aug 25, 2025 | AI | 0 |
Nowadays, of course, if someone tells us they write books on a typewriter, we help them into their straightjacket and take them back to the asylum.”
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