Category: Publishing Controversies
No, the “real” Middle Grade reading crisis has nothing to do with kids having or not having phones
by Mark Williams | May 12, 2024 | Publishing Controversies, TikTok, UK, USA | 2 |
As the industry watches Middle Grade sales and reading decline, grasping at easy excuses – such as that 70% of US nine year-olds don’t have phones – just beggars belief. How the f**k do they think Harry Potter or Enid Blyton got noticed and sold millions of books back in nineteen bow and arrow?
Read MoreIs Spotify’s audiobook service already hurting Audible?
by Mark Williams | Jan 29, 2024 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Publishing Controversies | 0 |
How many Audible subscribers, handing over a fixed sum each month for one single audiobook, also subscribe to Spotify for their music fix?
Read MoreJapanese laureate deals fatal blow to notion that AI will never write as well as a human
by Mark Williams | Jan 21, 2024 | AI, Awards, Japan, Publishing Controversies | 0 |
A book part-written by AI has won a prestigious literary award. A fatal blow to the AI Resistance, but also a whole load of trouble for lawmakers and AI regulators who thought they had the topic nailed.
Read MoreKKR’s Simon & Schuster pays a non-reader to go on a cruise to promote a book. Gordon Gekko would be appalled
by Mark Williams | Jan 15, 2024 | Publishing Controversies, Social Media, USA | 0 |
The blind leading the blind. Or in this case, Atria leading KKR money on a wild goose chase.
Read MoreAI Is Coming for the Influencers
by Mark Williams | Jan 13, 2024 | AI, Publishing Controversies | 0 |
Hyper-realistic AI creations are merely disrupting an overinflated market.
Read MoreEveryone in the publishing industry should be watching CES this month. Because AI is not about us. We’re just a sideshow
by Mark Williams | Jan 11, 2024 | AI, Publishing Controversies | 0 |
How many of us today are doing our job in the same way it was done late last century? More...
Read MorePhonics – A ticking time-bomb for English-language publishers
by Mark Williams | Dec 21, 2023 | Publishing Controversies, UK, USA | 0 |
In 2019 one in four children were leaving primary school unable to read properly. In England, the...
Read MoreDoes reading print texts really improve comprehension 6-8 times more than reading digital text? That’s a big “no”
by Mark Williams | Dec 20, 2023 | Publishing Controversies | 0 |
So exactly how often does the average person read social media texts on paper? Reading print...
Read MoreNo sign of Gordon Gekko as KKR-owned Simon & Schuster announces new Board
by Mark Williams | Dec 10, 2023 | Publishing Brief, Publishing Controversies, USA | 0 |
“I don’t throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Every battle...
Read MoreSince Afghanistan banned girls from school, its book trade has plummeted 50%. Why is the global industry so silent on this outrage?
by Mark Williams | Nov 28, 2023 | Afghanistan, Publishing Controversies, South Asia | 0 |
Today, there’s very little we outside the country can meaningfully do to alter the course of...
Read MoreThe AI revolution will be good for publishing whether we like it or not. Caution, not resistance, is called for
by Mark Williams | Oct 1, 2023 | AI, Publishing Controversies | 0 |
One of the biggest obstacles to AI in publishing right now is that infernal legal ruling that...
Read MorePublishers rejoice as FTC grapples with the Frankenstein’s monster the publishing industry created
by Mark Williams | Sep 29, 2023 | Amazon, Publishing Controversies, USA | 0 |
When it comes to playing the victim card and putting on raucous demonstrations of self-righteous...
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