Indian Mangaka Aparna Chaurasia at Comic Con Delhi 2024
Growing Interest in Japanese and Korean Art Forms.
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Author: Mark Williams
French Authors Will Soon Know Their True Book Sales Figures
While Filéas may not revolutionise the world, or even French publishing, overnight, it has the potential to significantly improve the French book industry’s transparency and efficiency, and if it is successful we’ll almost certainly see more of the same in other markets.
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Just for fun, here’s my 2024 LinkedIn Rewind, by Coauthor
But perhaps most telling was watching academic publishers embrace AI while trade publishing CEOs hid behind their bestselling authors. Wiley pocketed $44 million from AI deals while the Society of Authors demanded authors be allowed to opt out of the future.
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TNPS Thought for Christmas: TV celebrity children’s authors will never match the magic of Rowling or Blyton
Fewer and fewer children are reading for pleasure, in large part because the education system has failed them, but also in no small part because a TV celebrity riding on a ghostwriter’s skills and a jovial TV persona will never match the magic of a JK Rowling or an Enid Blyton, that wrote for children, not for fame and fortune.
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Kenya Publishers Association Urges Action Against Counterfeit Textbooks
The proliferation of counterfeit items, including kamusi, dictionaries, readers, textbooks, and set books, significantly harms the publishing industry and the broader economy. This illegal activity leads to financial losses for publishers, tax evasion, and economic sabotage.
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