Another HarperCollins summer party on the AI fence
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.
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Tag: UK book market
No, the “real” Middle Grade reading crisis has nothing to do with kids having or not having phones
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?
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Phonics – A ticking time-bomb for English-language publishers
In 2019 one in four children were leaving primary school unable to read properly. In England, the...
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UK – Mills & Boon launches new “spicy”’ Afterglow imprint to attract BookTok romance readers
Mills & Boon sells a romance fiction book in the UK every ten seconds, but has yet to get...
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“PRH UK confirms 38 roles to go.” Memo to PRH employees: You’d be better off at Simon & Schuster
I wonder how many job losses – no, sorry, role eliminations – it will take in total to...
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“If I’m guilty of copying and pasting, then I’m really proud of that.” UK Shadow Chancellor says plagiarism is just fine
No need to bother with publisher due diligence at the time of publication. Let’s just chuck...
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BookBeat Finland hits 300,000 subscribers as new opportunities open up for BookBeat UK
Good luck with that, Niclas, given that the UK Society of Authors has already launched an attack...
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UK -Spiralling costs and the impact of Brexit hit indie publishers as Sandstone collapses
An overall bleak picture of the UK independent publishing scene. “Independent publishers in...
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UK sees “best-ever” half-year print revenues, but don’t get too excited. Actual sales were down
Maybe it wasn’t such a good six months after all. UK sees “best-ever” half-year...
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British publishers hailing ‘excellent growth’ of English language exports to Europe thanks to BookTok are sleepwalking into disaster
It’s not too late for publishers to redeem something from the short-term cash-grab and...
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Britain has a new vision – a Creative Industries Sector Vision. Books and publishing aren’t really part of it
A lone quote from Stephen King, that well known British cultural icon, was another acknowledgement...
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“We are not a computer algorithm.” UK Booksellers protest publishers linking to Amazon during almost-over IBW
The letter is being emailed to publishers today, June 23 – one day before Independent...
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