Category: Publishing Brief
Anime News – Toho’s European Gambit: What Publishing Professionals Need to Know
Toho’s European anime expansion via Anime Limited acquisition signals major shift in global manga-to-screen publishing ecosystem.
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Strategic Consolidation: Ablaze Acquires NBM Publishing
Ablaze Publishing acquires NBM’s graphic novel catalogue and European licences, strengthening its market position ahead of Simon & Schuster distribution.
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Philippine Educational Publishing at 75: Procurement Woes and Sector
PEPA’s 75th anniversary highlights textbook procurement delays and reforms. Educational publishing’s industry role and reading culture implications explored.
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More Music Publishers Settle With And Partner With AI. Book Publishers Look The Other Way
Music labels partner with AI platforms through strategic settlements. Book publishers lack leverage. Why safe settlements may not be an option.
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The Keyword is Dead: How LLM Search Transforms Book Discovery
A deep dive into the seismic shift reshaping how readers find books – and what publishers must do about it
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Beyond Fear: Why Publishing Must Embrace AI as a Tool, Not a Threat
Publishing must move beyond fear to engage thoughtfully with AI. It’s a tool, not a threat—and human choices, not technology, determine outcomes.
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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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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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