Professor Shahidha Bari, Chair of The Unwin Award 2025 Judging Panel, highlighted the power of books and publishing in shaping public awareness, influencing policy, and sparking conversations on national identity, the natural world, freedom of speech, and gender politics.
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The event featured a shortlist of 95 books across 18 categories.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Does anyone seriously expect a child to enjoy reading if they cannot read properly?
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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.
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