Publishing Advisory: AI and Publishing: Building a Successful Strategy – webinar 22 January 2025
Recommended for those who think AI is going to steal their jobs. Adapt and thrive!
Dec 30, 2024 | AI
Recommended for those who think AI is going to steal their jobs. Adapt and thrive!
Jan 4, 2025 | Book Fairs, India
by Mark Williams | Jan 5, 2025 | Comics, Japan | 0 |
Using AI to combat piracy? An outrageous idea. A slippery slope. The thin edge of the wedge. Once we start looking objectively at AI instead of taking every opportunity to demonise it, where will it end?
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jan 5, 2025 | Book Fairs, Pakistan, South Asia | 0 |
As so often across South Asia, some people seem unable to understand that books can be read and listened to digitally and that ink and paper is just a vehicle, and does not have any magical qualities in its own right.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jan 5, 2025 | Comics, India | 0 |
This is not just a matter grabbing a famous face to promote comics. Singh has genuine interest in the field.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jan 4, 2025 | Book Fairs, India | 0 |
“Achieving such sales would mean the Pune Book Festival has outperformed even the New Delhi World Book Fair and the International Kolkata Book Fair—events globally renowned for their scale and impact” – Pranav Gupta.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jan 4, 2025 | Argentina | 0 |
5th International Congress for the Promotion of Reading and Books.
9-10 May 2025 at the Buenos Aires International Book Fair.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jan 4, 2025 | Lithuania | 0 |
Lithuania: 𝗩𝗶𝗹𝗻𝗶𝘂𝘀 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲 launches Feb 25-28, focussing on adult fiction.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jan 4, 2025 | Africa | 0 |
In 2024, African literature thrived, countering previous claims of its decline. Writers of African descent made significant strides, bringing African stories to previously inaccessible spaces.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jan 2, 2025 | Africa, Arab publishing, Morocco | 0 |
The 30th edition of SIEL will take place April 17-27 at the OLM Souissi venue.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Dec 31, 2024 | Awards, India, South Asia | 0 |
Thongchi’s recognition by the Asom Prakashan Parishad highlights the rich tapestry of Indian literature and underscores the importance of regional literary contributions on the global stage.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Dec 30, 2024 | AI | 0 |
Recommended for those who think AI is going to steal their jobs. Adapt and thrive!
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Dec 30, 2024 | AI, book marketing | 0 |
Learn how AI can enhance book marketing and support authors in our workshop. Join us on 8 January 2025 to discover AI tools for deeper reader connections and sustainable marketing.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Dec 30, 2024 | Caribbean, Costa Rica, Ibero-America, Latin America | 0 |
PublishNewsEs has the list of literary projects that will be supported by the Colegio de Costa Rica, part of the Costa Rican Ministry of Culture and Youth.
Read Moreby 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 Moreby Mark Williams | Dec 30, 2024 | Africa, Sharjah | 0 |
Fostering creativity, literacy and collaboration is a theme, if not perhaps in those exact words, that recurs again and again in the top-level Arab markets, and we (in western publishing) would all do well to take a step back and compare our own measures of success.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Dec 28, 2024 | Abu Dhabi, Arab publishing, Book Fairs, Middle East | 0 |
The festival included a comprehensive programme for children, reinforcing a read for pleasure mindset that we in the west, and especially in the UK and US, seem to have lost sight of, as witness the disturbing fall in the number of kids that read for pleasure both sides of the Atlantic.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Dec 28, 2024 | Comics, India | 0 |
Growing Interest in Japanese and Korean Art Forms.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Dec 28, 2024 | France | 0 |
While Filéas may not revolutionise the world, or even French publishing, overnight, it has the potential to significantly improve the French book industry’s transparency and efficiency, and if it is successful we’ll almost certainly see more of the same in other markets.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Dec 28, 2024 | Publishing Brief, The New Publishing Standard | 0 |
But perhaps most telling was watching academic publishers embrace AI while trade publishing CEOs hid behind their bestselling authors. Wiley pocketed $44 million from AI deals while the Society of Authors demanded authors be allowed to opt out of the future.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Dec 24, 2024 | Arab publishing, Book Fairs, Children's Books, Middle East, Morocco, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates | 0 |
Fewer and fewer children are reading for pleasure, in large part because the education system has failed them, but also in no small part because a TV celebrity riding on a ghostwriter’s skills and a jovial TV persona will never match the magic of a JK Rowling or an Enid Blyton, that wrote for children, not for fame and fortune.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Dec 23, 2024 | Africa, Kenya | 0 |
The proliferation of counterfeit items, including kamusi, dictionaries, readers, textbooks, and set books, significantly harms the publishing industry and the broader economy. This illegal activity leads to financial losses for publishers, tax evasion, and economic sabotage.
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