Category: UK
UK Government Partners With AI: Throws Dan Conway And Publishers Association Under A Bus
UK government AI partnerships with Meta and Anthropic signal decisive shift away from Publishers Association’s restrictive copyright agenda towards innovation.
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UK Publishers Association Demands Geo-blocking of Oak Academy Amid New Export Strategy
The Publishers Association backs the UK’s new £40bn education export strategy but demands Oak National Academy be geo-blocked to protect commercial interests.
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British TV Streaming Through US Libraries: A Publishing Goldmine
BBC’s Hoopla Digital expansion offers publishers unprecedented US market access through library streaming, converting TV viewers into book buyers and driving 44% sales increases.
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Waterstones Growth Decelerates Ahead of Planned IPO as UK Book Market Contracts
Waterstones reports slowing growth ahead of planned IPO, with UK book market volume declining 2.5% as chain expands non-book categories.
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Rearranging the Deckchairs: As B&N Preps For IPO, TNPS Looks At The Reality Behind The BookTok-Led Retail Revival
Barnes & Noble’s expansion and BookTok hype suggest a retail boom, but the data tells a different story. We’re not growing the market—just reshuffling it.
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Hachette Learning Cuts Signal Painful Reckoning for UK Education Publishers
The industry is now paying the price for its dependency on a single, volatile customer.
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Reading Between the Lines: The UK PA’s Agenda-Driven Response to the Curriculum Review
Analysis of the UK PA’s response to the curriculum review, arguing it cherry-picks findings to lobby against Oak National Academy.
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Amazon is an AI Tech Company. Why Does it Get a Free Pass from the UK’s Publishers Association and the Society of Authors?
Amazon now has nailed its publishing industry AI colours to the mast. We cannot have one rule for Amazon and another for every other AI company.
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Two Roads Diverged in the AI Woods: American Pragmatism vs. British Bluster
So the AAP presented the court with a series of existing (AI publishing) deals – over 65 examples, collectively valued at $2.5 billion, with projections soaring to $30 billion over the next decade.
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Horror Fiction Evolves: Sporror, Body Horror, Escapism and the Commodification of Breast Milk
I’ve managed the to exist blissfully unaware there was such a thing as the “commodification of breast milk”, let alone that it might feature in a horror movie scenario.
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Voxblock Stories for Schools: Unlocking the Power of Audiobooks – UK Reading Initiative
So they did want any parent would do when spotting a market opportunity, a social need and a daughter eager for more audiobooks: they created Voxblock.
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The Bookseller’s UK Publishing Salaries Survey makes for fascinating reading, even though its numbers and conclusions can only be considered indicative at best
We’d been told that 11 respondents in total claimed to be paid £18k or less, but how many of those were part time, and performing what role? What qualifications, experience and expertise do they bring to the table?
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