Imagine for one moment if, somehow, the Bertelsmann buy-out of Simon & Schuster had been successful and the ever-tuxedoed Count Dohle was still emerging from the grave each night to dictate PRH policy. There would have been no Spotify deal and no unprecedented surge in the fortunes of the audiobook industry.
The real risk is of UK authors being drowned out by the generic and derivative outputs of the Society of Authors, which is constantly behind the times when it comes to publishing.
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What especially appealed to me is that FILBAC will be city-wide, not just at a single venue, integrating the entire city into its celebration.
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Imagine for one moment if, somehow, the Bertelsmann buy-out of Simon & Schuster had been successful and the ever-tuxedoed Count Dohle was still emerging from the grave each night to dictate PRH policy. There would have been no Spotify deal and no unprecedented surge in the fortunes of the audiobook industry.
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The industry needs to take a step back from the knee-jerk “AI can never compete with human creativity” and the “AI will steal our jobs, destroy our culture and eat our children for breakfast” nonsense, and take a look at how AI can enhance human creativity and productivity.
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Mexico’s publishing industry highlights the risks of over-reliance on de facto government subsidies.
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“AI can never replace human creativity!” So why are you running about like a headless chicken because your job is at risk?
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Dr. Asein believes AI will empower authors to become publishers and vice versa.
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By recognising and embracing the full potential of AI across the industry, publishers, authors and narrators alike can surf this new wave of possibilities, instead of being left behind.
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But these kids are attending school every day, where the joy of reading is being leached from their very souls by a broken system of teaching children to read.
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India remains, for TNPS, the most exciting publishing prospect on the planet.
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Jamaica Book Festival 2024
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The choice of name, styling itself as a book festival rather than an international book fair suggests a pragmatic approach towards the event’s future, with focus on readers over rights and the industry’s needs.
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Why, the publisher might ask, would a mere author want that kind of valuable info? This is the thin end of the wedge. The slippery slope. What next, letting authors see the actual sales records for their books?
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The kingmaker will be the big publishers, but it will be consumers that that will be the kingmakers’ kingmaker – TNPS 2020.
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As Donald Trump prepares to take office once again, the publishing industry faces a unique set of challenges. With a compliant Department of Justice (DoJ) under his administration, the potential for increased scrutiny and influence over book publishing decisions is a significant concern.
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Why is there so little analysis out there of what the Trump years may bring for our industry? Love him or loathe him, no-one is ever going to accuse Trump of being a booklover and a friend of the publishing industry.
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Bookouture’s commitment to growth and adapting to market trends, vindicates my early impressions of Bookouture back before the 2017 buyout by Hachette UK, as a publisher to watch.
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Does anyone seriously expect a child to enjoy reading if they cannot read properly?
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With two Big 5 publishers now embracing AI for audio, and others ready to follow, a flood of new content will simultaneously offer consumers more choice at better prices while also competing for listening hours. Embracing subscription as an outlet for this new content is just common sense.
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A growing and exciting market opportunity for publishers outside China to explore cultural reach beyond traditional literature, and a reminder that the global publishing market beyond the usual suspects is an untapped goldmine.
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