Category: UK
Winners Announced for the 2024 British Book Design and Production Awards
by Mark Williams | Feb 10, 2025 | Awards, UK | 0 |
The event featured a shortlist of 95 books across 18 categories.
Read MoreHarperCollins Says 23% of Consumer Revenues from Digital as Print Sales Decline. Mostly sound numbers, but are the strategies sound?
by Mark Williams | Feb 9, 2025 | UK, USA | 0 |
CEO Brian Murray admits to an over-reliance on non-fiction (by which he means celebrity and politician books). Brian, you seriously have only just come to that conclusion?
Read MoreThe Guardian is at it again. No, writers do not need financial support. This victim mentality does us no favours
by Mark Williams | Jan 13, 2025 | Publishing Controversies, UK | 0 |
Writers don’t need victim support and government handouts as The Guardian seems to think. They need positive thinking and a willingness to adapt. Success is earned, not handed out.
Read MoreSquandered Opportunities – AI is not the publishing industry’s enemy. Rather, engaged with properly, it can be one of our greatest assets
by Mark Williams | Dec 30, 2024 | AI, UK | 0 |
We need to move forward in 2025, not try turn the clock back to 1995, and that means making and accepting compromises along the way, and at the same time being willing to experiment, innovate and seize new opportunities.
Read MoreUK’s Society of Authors Shows Itself To Be Unfit For Purpose
by Mark Williams | Dec 12, 2024 | AI, UK | 0 |
The real risk is of UK authors being drowned out by the generic and derivative outputs of the Society of Authors, which is constantly behind the times when it comes to publishing.
Read MoreThe $1.275 billion UK audiobook market
by Mark Williams | Dec 1, 2024 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, UK | 0 |
By recognising and embracing the full potential of AI across the industry, publishers, authors and narrators alike can surf this new wave of possibilities, instead of being left behind.
Read MoreThe UK’s Kids’ Reading Crisis Redux. Don’t Blame the Parents
by Mark Williams | Nov 30, 2024 | Kids Reading Crisis, UK | 0 |
But these kids are attending school every day, where the joy of reading is being leached from their very souls by a broken system of teaching children to read.
Read MoreRedundancies in UK Publishing: A Misleading Snapshot of 2024
by Mark Williams | Nov 16, 2024 | AI, UK | 0 |
Why is there so little analysis out there of what the Trump years may bring for our industry? Love him or loathe him, no-one is ever going to accuse Trump of being a booklover and a friend of the publishing industry.
Read MoreBookouture Clocks ‘Significant Double-Digit Sales Growth’ Two Years Running
by Mark Williams | Nov 15, 2024 | Ebooks, UK | 0 |
Bookouture’s commitment to growth and adapting to market trends, vindicates my early impressions of Bookouture back before the 2017 buyout by Hachette UK, as a publisher to watch.
Read MoreChildren reading for pleasure at an all-time low. Industry in panic mode. The problem lies in the classroom, not the industry
by Mark Williams | Nov 11, 2024 | Education Publishing, Publishing Controversies, UK | 0 |
Does anyone seriously expect a child to enjoy reading if they cannot read properly?
Read MorePearson credits AI with driving sales
by Mark Williams | Oct 30, 2024 | AI, Education Publishing, UK | 0 |
Pearson is at the forefront of a fundamental shift in educational publishing that in time is going to bring into question the very viability of printed books in the education sector.
Read MoreOUP terminates US jobs, but no, AI was not to blame, so no-one will be shedding tears. Business is business!
by Mark Williams | Sep 15, 2024 | Academic and specialist publishing, UK | 0 |
AI not to blame? Hence the deafening silence from the industry sidelines.
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