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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Tag: UK publishing
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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A Record Number Of Submissions For The British Book Awards 2025 Independent Bookshop of the Year
The shops will compete first to win their regional titles (the regional and country winners of the award will be announced on 11 March) before vying for the overall prize, which will be announced at The British Book Awards ceremony on 12 May.
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Winners Announced for the 2024 British Book Design and Production Awards
The event featured a shortlist of 95 books across 18 categories.
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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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