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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Tag: US publishing
Spotify helps HarperCollins bounce back after a challenging year. HC keeps quiet about AI
Given HarperCollins’ parent company News Corp is investing heavily in AI, we can therefore reasonably assume HarperCollins is going down that same route, but quietly.
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PW’s Jim Milliott gets Lifetime Achievement Award
For those of us outside the US, Publishers Weekly has been our indispensable window on American...
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USA – 2024 could be a very active year for acquisitions
“Interviews with publishers and dealmakers suggest that 2024 could be a very active year for...
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USA – sluggish sales, “Holidays” hopes, and cold realities
Milliott’s latest report on the struggling US print market for PW is one of so many it would...
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US literary agents question the business model’s viability, but some are missing the bigger picture
Today, publishing is a different planet. There is so much opportunity. So much potential. So much...
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USA – Bookstore Sales Fell 17% in August. Ebooks fell, or rose, depending on where you look.
It is not clear just how much college books shifting to digital are contributing to the 17% August...
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US – print book sales continue to decline. So where is the #BookTok boom the industry loves to get so excited about?
And yet book sales are down. Meaning a) that 4.176 billion of those BookTok views resulted in no...
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Hedge-fund KKR buys Simon & Schuster. A Gordon Gekko moment or a digital beacon of hope?
KKR CEO Pete Stavros will be listening carefully to Richard Sarnoff, and looking closely at what...
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KKR now likely to buy S&S for 27% less than PRH tried to pay. But are hedge-funds good for the industry?
As a one-off acquisition, the Simon & Schuster deal is not deeply worrying, but the broader...
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US – “Print Books Take a Tumble.”
Nothing too worrying, but also nothing to celebrate . Jim Milliot’s latest look at the US...
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The Emperor’s Old Clothes: Publishing’s Supply Chain Needs an Upgrade
O’Leary has much more to say, and shows where other countries are ahead of the game. Canada,...
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