Memo to Malaviya: Ditch the Dohle Doctrine and bring PRH into the 21st century
This will be Malaviya’s chance to nail his own colours to the mast and show us he has an...
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Category: Publishing Brief
Hedge-fund KKR buys Simon & Schuster. A Gordon Gekko moment or a digital beacon of hope?
KKR CEO Pete Stavros will be listening carefully to Richard Sarnoff, and looking closely at what...
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KKR now likely to buy S&S for 27% less than PRH tried to pay. But are hedge-funds good for the industry?
As a one-off acquisition, the Simon & Schuster deal is not deeply worrying, but the broader...
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Thad McIlroy on “Why Publishers Must adopt AI”
“This is not a good time to be technology-averse. Artificial intelligence stands to...
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Memo to the Buchmesse – Global publishing’s interests are best served without the fawning sycophancy towards whoever happens to be PRH CEO
Will this so-called “exclusive Executive Talk” be just another PRH-Porter Anderson...
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69% of Oxford University Press (OUP) revenues come from digital
Memo to Markus Dohle: that’s ever so slightly more than 20%. The OUP annual report and among...
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KKR sale of RB Media paves the way for its Simon & Schuster bid. The industry should be concerned
Hedge-fund managers have no long-term interest in the industry, any more than book fair hosting...
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The Emperor Markus Dohle has no clothes
Asking any publisher to give the keynote speech at a booksellers’ event is a bit like asking a...
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“We’re driving toward a paper crisis. More mills are converting to higher-value papers for diapers, etc.”
“We’re driving toward a paper crisis. More mills are converting to higher-value papers for...
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So why are algorithms still so bad at recommending books?
Second, however, is the self-perpetuating fallacy that humans are the solution. The simple reality...
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AI is absolutely a threat to publishing jobs, and we need to come to terms with that
Booklovers don’t buy audiobooks to keep narrators in a job. They buy audiobooks because they...
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Say hello to HC Arc®, the new font for “non-English” books that no-one has been waiting for
If HCArc® can reduce the amount of paper used per title by up to 20% then that’s certainly a...
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