Tag: UK publishing
Squandered Opportunities – AI is not the publishing industry’s enemy. Rather, engaged with properly, it can be one of our greatest assets
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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Redundancies in UK Publishing: A Misleading Snapshot of 2024
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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OUP terminates US jobs, but no, AI was not to blame, so no-one will be shedding tears. Business is business!
AI not to blame? Hence the deafening silence from the industry sidelines.
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How news publishers are using AI chatbots to boost engagement.
This particular report is focussed on news publishers, but any book publisher with an ounce of...
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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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The IPG’s decision to explore AI is welcome, but we need to be more open still to its possibilities
For every author who is ranting against the “threat” of AI there is another actively...
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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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UK publishing’s “record year”. But whatever you do, don’t mention the e-word
Shhhh! Don’t say the e-word! The e-word is the PA’s very own Voldemort, its very own...
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UK booksellers face a “brutal” 2023, warns the Booksellers Association. Damns Amazon as Watertones demand 85% discount on frontlist titles
Level playing field? That’s like demanding a level playing field for buses, trains and...
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UK – Publishers ‘on brink of collapse’ as US-owned UK distributor struggles
Publishers have warned some firms are being driven to “the brink of collapse” by ongoing issues...
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UK – Words by the Water book festival axed over cost of living. How soon before bigger events feel the pinch?
As we head into a winter of economic uncertainty the future of bigger publishing events will be in...
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