Category: Publishing News
Alpine Global Collective: Transforming Publishing Consultancy
“What began as a casual conversation between publishing consultants at an international book fair has evolved into a pioneering consultancy model.”
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USA – Authors Guild Federal Court Victory: Arkansas Book Ban Declared Unconstitutional
“When we allow broad restrictions like Act 372, we don’t just silence authors – we deny readers, particularly young people, the opportunity to see themselves and understand others through literature” – Mary Rasenberger.
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No sign of Gordon Gekko at the 2024 Global 50 CEO (Simon & Schuster/KRR) Talk at Frankfurt
“Not opening the floodgates” (Richard Sarnoff, KKR) is a concession that AI content will flow regardless, and the right way forward is to learn to manage that flow, not try to dam it.
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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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Restructuring at PRH -meaningful, or musical chairs?
In the wake of the Court debacle that led to Markus Dohle’s long-overdue resignation, the...
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Wiley soars thanks to “Record research output and content consumption, robust online enrolment growth, and broad digital courseware adoption”
The pandemic is accelerating trends including a global increase in the demand to publish and...
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PRH Canada devolves RH and Knopf in move that weakens the argument against the Penguin Random House acquisition of Simon & Schuster
The move is not related to the Simon & Schuster buyout, and was initially planned for the...
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The IPA’s State of Publishing Reports offer new global perspectives
“There is such a wealth of information in these reports that publishers and publishers’...
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Belgium joins Thailand for Storytel 2020 launch, lining up France, Portugal, Austria, Luxembourg and Switzerland among many as possible candidates to join Israel and Indonesia in 2021-3
Storytel Belgium will be run from the Netherlands, setting the scene for Austria, Luxembourg and...
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Germany’s Bookwire and Brazil’s Fênix Editorial join EDRLab (France)
Fênix Editorial (“both a publishing house and a technology company”) joins Bookwire...
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Quote Unquote: “The strongest digital sales performance in years” – HarperCollins. “Robust growth in digital formats” – Hachette
HarperCollins and Hachette digital safety nets kick in. HarperCollins sees 39% of H2 revenue from...
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Pearson and Scholastic results – trade up and digital up but overall Covid-19 impact is hurting
At TNPS the focus is on international publishing, but we occasionally offer perspectives on the US...
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