Is the Buchmesse feeling the heat from other book fairs?
Both events were, from conception, fatally flawed – book fairs run for profit by outsiders, for an industry the organisers never fully understood or cared about.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Feb 4, 2024 | Book Fairs, Germany, UK | 0 |
Both events were, from conception, fatally flawed – book fairs run for profit by outsiders, for an industry the organisers never fully understood or cared about.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Feb 4, 2024 | France, UK, USA | 0 |
Whatever name the new group is given, Hachette publishing will be run to please the stock market’s fickle whims.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jan 7, 2024 | AI, UK | 0 |
“Not only does AI liberate time, it also replaces an old equation—that wisdom flows from...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jan 3, 2024 | Indigenous Languages, UK | 0 |
“This is symptomatic of a wider problem in literature, one in which languages, and...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Dec 22, 2023 | AI, UK | 0 |
This particular report is focussed on news publishers, but any book publisher with an ounce of...
Read Moreby 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 Moreby Mark Williams | Dec 21, 2023 | UK | 0 |
Interesting to contrast news from PRH UK and its “role” eliminations, with news from...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Dec 20, 2023 | Europe, UK | 0 |
Mills & Boon sells a romance fiction book in the UK every ten seconds, but has yet to get...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Dec 16, 2023 | UK | 0 |
I wonder how many job losses – no, sorry, role eliminations – it will take in total to...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Nov 4, 2023 | UK, Uncategorized | 0 |
But supposing those 38 jobs had been lost due to AI… What a different story that would be....
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Oct 30, 2023 | UK | 0 |
No need to bother with publisher due diligence at the time of publication. Let’s just chuck...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Oct 15, 2023 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Finland, UK | 0 |
Good luck with that, Niclas, given that the UK Society of Authors has already launched an attack...
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