Category: UK
UK education publishers wanting more money for cas...
Posted by Mark Williams | Jun 27, 2024 | Education Publishing, UK | 0 |
UK publisher and author advocates want AI regulati...
Posted by Mark Williams | Jun 17, 2024 | Publishing Controversies, UK | 0 |
Another HarperCollins summer party on the AI fence
by Mark Williams | Jul 7, 2024 | AI, UK | 0 |
Big daddy Robert Thomson has already made clear News Corp is going to embrace AI in all its glory, so better to take the reins than be dragged along regardless.
Read MoreUK education publishers wanting more money for cash-strapped schools is self-serving
by Mark Williams | Jun 27, 2024 | Education Publishing, UK | 0 |
Welcome to the slippery-slope world of synthetic phonics, brought to you by publishers.
Read MoreUK publisher and author advocates want AI regulation and fair pay, but we should be careful what we wish for
by Mark Williams | Jun 17, 2024 | Publishing Controversies, UK | 0 |
Fair pay for writers? I’m sure JK Rowling would be happy to settle for £25 an hour. After all, she has no commuting costs, and can pick and choose the hours she works, and judging from her output lately she probably spends all day on WhatsApp instead of slaving over that next book.
Read MoreBonnier Books UK and Blackstone Publishing (US) add audiobook catalogues to Spotify
by Mark Williams | May 21, 2024 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, UK, USA | 0 |
All indications so far are that Spotify’s audiobook offering is expanding the market in the...
Read MoreNo, 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 MoreHypocrisy and moral cowardice: UK’s Society of Authors thinks Gaza atrocities are not its problem
by Mark Williams | May 5, 2024 | Palestine, UK | 0 |
The Society of Authors believes genocide in Ukraine must be condemned, but genocide in Gaza is not part of its remit. And now the SoA has an official “mandate” to look the other way.
Read MoreHere We Go Again – Another Year – Another LBF Director
by Mark Williams | Apr 23, 2024 | Book Fairs, UK | 0 |
Here’s a suggestion to get you started, Adam. Pop along to an industry fair as a visitor...
Read MoreLBF and the Tyranny of the Square Metre – why “that” NYT article was mostly spot on
by Mark Williams | Apr 4, 2024 | Book Fairs, UK | 0 |
What happens at LBF stays at LBF. Why are most industry book fairs in the mid-2020s still partying like its 1999?
Read MoreIs the Buchmesse feeling the heat from other book fairs?
by 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 MoreDavid Shelley and Hachette face new upheaval as Vivendi prepares to play the stock market game
by 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 MoreGen Z vs Generation One Foot In The Grave. AI dominates the annual “predictions” rounds
by 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 MoreSupporting Minority and Indigenous Languages
by Mark Williams | Jan 3, 2024 | Indigenous Languages, UK | 0 |
“This is symptomatic of a wider problem in literature, one in which languages, and...
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