The Mattel-OpenAI Partnership: A Wake-Up Call for Trade Publishing
Mattel-OpenAI’s AI toy partnership challenges trade publishing to embrace AI for interactive storytelling or risk obsolescence.
Read MorePosted by Mark Williams | Jun 16, 2025 | AI, Children's Books, Publishing Brief, Publishing Controversies |
Mattel-OpenAI’s AI toy partnership challenges trade publishing to embrace AI for interactive storytelling or risk obsolescence.
Read MorePosted by Mark Williams | Jun 14, 2025 | AI, Indonesia, S.E. Asia |
Indonesia plans systematic translation of its classics—could AI accelerate global reach? A hybrid human/AI model may make multi-language publishing viable for emerging markets.
Read MorePosted by Mark Williams | Jun 14, 2025 | South Korea, Taiwan |
Deputy Culture Minister Sue Wang has positioned the collaboration as a launchpad for expanded partnerships between Taiwan and South Korea across publishing, television, film, and video gaming industries.
Read MorePosted by Mark Williams | Jun 14, 2025 | Arab publishing, MENA publishing, Syria |
An exciting time for Syrian authors and other publishing industry stakeholders not just to rebuild, but to reframe Syrian publishing for the twenty-first century.
Read MorePosted by Mark Williams | Jun 9, 2025 | MENA publishing, Middle East, United Arab Emirates |
While other countries may not have the UAE’s resources or govt. commitment to publishing to match the model in full, there’s much to be learned here.
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