The Sarah J. Maas Model: How Authors Are Bypassing Publishers in the IP Gold Rush
How Sarah J. Maas’s IMG deal signals a seismic shift: authors now bypass publishers to control lucrative IP rights, leaving traditional publishing behind.
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Category: Publishing Brief
Streaming TV Beats Combined Broadcast and Cable – Why Publishing Must Embrace the Inevitable
Why publishing must learn from TV’s streaming milestone and embrace AI-powered subscription models before tech disruptors claim the future.
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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.
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AI and the Workforce: Implications for Publishing from PwC’s 2025 Global AI Jobs Barometer
The latest PwC report is bad news for the Luddite Fringe.
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DC’s Cinematic Reboot: Superman’s New Dawn Amid Marvel’s Decline. Implications for Publishing
with audiences more discerning (and older film-goers like me wedded to C20 characters that Marvel and DC have lately walked away from) and competition fiercer than ever, success is far from guaranteed.
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What is “western publishing”, anyway?
Trade fiction, academic works, comics, audiobooks and digital serials are all being reimagined- from Tokyo’s manga cafés to Dubai’s audiobook studios. And all too often it is the “west” that is playing catch-up and copy-cat.
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Exploring the New Horizons of Co-Publishing: A Case Study from Tamil Nadu Courtesy of Bologna
it’s interesting to contrast the way Bologna continues to expand its international footprint, and in particular its embrace of India while Frankfurt and London look the other way.
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USA – Bowker and IndieCommerce Boost Independent Bookstore Digital Sales With Book2look. A Global Perspective
Book2look has already generated over 250 million views, demonstrating its effectiveness.
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The Guardian Partners With OpenAI While Simultaneously Fuelling The Luddite Fringe Fire
Memo to Microsoft – I’ve got some backlist titles and a struggling school where kids cannot imagine what £20 looks like, let alone £2,000, if you’d like to get in touch!
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India Leads the World in Literary Events Says Frankfurt. Porter Anderson Will Get a Memo Shortly from Buchmesse HQ to Look Up India on the World Map
India participates each year at the Buchmesse through the National Book Trust, but the Buchmesse presence in India has been, shall we say, casual?
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NetGalley Unveils Major Upgrade to Reading Options with New In-Browser Reader
NetGalley members will, it seems, enjoy quicker and more secure access to digital review copies, while publishers benefit from first-of-its-kind content protection.
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The World’s Youngest Female Magazine Columnist
AlDhabi has a fantastic future ahead of her. I hope, like me, she finds career contentment that will last a lifetime.
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