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Poland's publishing scene facing royalty rumblings! 🇵🇱 Authors often see just 5-15% (rarely 25%) of book profits. 📚 While distribution & production take their cut, are publishers taking too big a slice? 🤔 ✍️💰 #Publishing #Poland #Royalties #FairPay
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Royalty Rumblings in Poland's Publishing Industry The world of publishing… | Mark Williams
Royalty Rumblings in Poland's Publishing Industry The world of publishing is often celebrated as a haven for creativity, yet beneath the surface lies a long-standing issue: the disproportionate s...
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April 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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📚✨ Nigeria's Abuja crowned the 2025 Book City! ✨📚

More than a celebration, this is a movement to reimagine books as powerful agents of cultural and educational transformation.

Unite through the power of reading! 🌍📖

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#BookCity2025 #Abuja #ReadingCulture #PublishingInnovation
April 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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🤔 Hypocrisy or survival strategy?

📚 The publishing industry’s split reactions to Amazon vs AI companies reveal deep dependencies.

Meanwhile, the Trump-Vance FTC vows to challenge Big Tech—cue scepticism. Dive into this tangled dynamic:

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#BigTech #Publishing #AI #RegulatoryDrama
March 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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🎥📚 Text-to-video: the next cinema frontier.

The film industry’s cautious embrace of Sora offers a lesson for publishing—resistance fades, innovation thrives.

What’s shiny today becomes essential tomorrow. Explore the blueprint: shorturl.at/HRBrK

#Innovation #Publishing #TextToVideo #FutureOfMedia
March 31, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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🚨 Publishing at risk? Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic in the headlines, but the real existential threat is the Trump Executive Order.

Broad copyright exemptions for AI could reshape the industry as we know it. Dive into the implications here: shorturl.at/It8sz

#AI #Publishing #Copyright #IndustryThreat
March 31, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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🤖 Human or AI? A creative whodunit!

When "AI audio" bashed for poor quality turns out to be… HUMAN-made.

Prejudice + perception = the real disruptors.

🎭 Explore how bias is reshaping the creative world:

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#AI #Creativity #Innovation #BiasInArt
March 31, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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📚 Bigger font, bigger opportunities! The power of large print books. Unlock accessibility, boost engagement, and tap into an underserved market. See why this strategy could transform the industry here: shorturl.at/o0WHV

#Publishing #Accessibility #Innovation #LargePrintBooks
March 31, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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📣 Hollywood shake-up! Jennifer Salke OUT, Bond franchise IN. Big Tech reshaping Tinseltown, leaving traditional studio values in the rear-view. What does this mean for publishing's future? 🎥📚 Dive into the evolving landscape here: shorturl.at/Zqp2u

#Hollywood #JamesBond #BigTech #PublishingIndustry
March 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Morocco’s 2025 Book Publishing Support Programme.

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March 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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"I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work."

The robot rebellion is already well underway!

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March 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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USA – Bowker and IndieCommerce Boost Independent Bookstore Digital Sales With Book2look. A Global Perspective.

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USA - Bowker and IndieCommerce Boost Independent Bookstore Digital Sales With Book2look. A Global Perspective - The New Publishing Standard
Book2look has already generated over 250 million views, demonstrating its effectiveness.
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March 2, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Spotify Plans Expanded Audiobook Operations in Europe and Sweden.

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Spotify Plans Expanded Audiobook Operations in Europe and Sweden - The New Publishing Standard
I would not be surprised later this year to see Spotify partnering with the India-based AI narration and translation platforms to open up the India market for Spotify Premium audiobooks.
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February 23, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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The Guardian Partners With OpenAI While Simultaneously Fuelling The Luddite Fringe Fire.

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The Guardian Partners With OpenAI While Simultaneously Fuelling The Luddite Fringe Fire - The New Publishing Standard
Memo to Microsoft - I've got some backlist titles and a struggling school where kids cannot imagine what £20 looks like, let alone £2,000, if you'd like to get in touch!
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February 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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"History isn’t boring—it just needs the right storyteller." - The New Publishing Standard
Isaac Asimov's narrative non-fiction - a transformative moment in my life.
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February 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Lee Child on Tom Cruise's Casting: "Book Readers Were Right." Other Book-To-Screen Adaptations Compared - The New Publishing Standard
Reacher's famed ability to know the precise time at any given moment ("the clock in Reacher's head") is part of the Reacher superman armoury, despite Reacher wearing a watch and having no such time-ke...
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February 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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2025 BolognaRagazzi, CrossMedia Award Winners Announced. - The New Publishing Standard
Among the standout achievements for me, Yoto secures the Digital Reading Experience prize. Kudos to Yoto for this well-deserved recognition!
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February 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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India – Kolkata International Book Fair – 2.7 million visitors. $3 million sales.

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India - Kolkata International Book Fair - 2.7 million visitors. $3 million sales - The New Publishing Standard
The confirmed figure are in keeping with realistic expectations, although a far cry from the crazy numbers (more than 5 million) the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was predicting when opening the even...
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February 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Not Everyone Who Opposes AI Is A Luddite, Sam Missingham. But Some Have Earned The Epithet
Luddites of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your brain cells. Oh, and the chance of thriving as the industry evolves.
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December 15, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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Adapt and Thrive: AI Translation is the Game-Changer's Game-Changer - The New Publishing Standard
Imagine for one moment if, somehow, the Bertelsmann buy-out of Simon & Schuster had been successful and the ever-tuxedoed Count Dohle was still emerging from the grave each night to dictate PRH policy...
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December 13, 2024 at 5:57 PM
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UK's Society of Authors Shows Itself To Be Unfit For Purpose - The New Publishing Standard
The real risk is of UK authors being drowned out by the generic and derivative outputs of the Society of Authors, which is constantly behind the times when it comes to publishing.
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December 13, 2024 at 5:55 PM
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Colombia - FILBAC, the International Book Fair of Barranquilla, the Atlantic and the Caribbean launches this week - The New Publishing Standard
What especially appealed to me is that FILBAC will be city-wide, not just at a single venue, integrating the entire city into its celebration.
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December 11, 2024 at 6:14 AM
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Adapt and Thrive: AI Translation is the Game-Changer’s Game-Changer.

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Adapt and Thrive: AI Translation is the Game-Changer's Game-Changer - The New Publishing Standard
Imagine for one moment if, somehow, the Bertelsmann buy-out of Simon & Schuster had been successful and the ever-tuxedoed Count Dohle was still emerging from the grave each night to dictate PRH policy...
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December 11, 2024 at 6:13 AM
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India’s Amdavad Book Fair morphs into the Ahmedabad International Book Festival.

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India's Amdavad Book Fair morphs into the Ahmedabad International Book Festival - The New Publishing Standard
The choice of name, styling itself as a book festival rather than an international book fair suggests a pragmatic approach towards the event's future, with focus on readers over rights and the industr...
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November 28, 2024 at 9:14 PM
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Spotify adds Bloomsbury, forces Amazon to add audiobooks to Amazon Music.

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Spotify adds Bloomsbury, forces Amazon to add audiobooks to Amazon Music - The New Publishing Standard
The kingmaker will be the big publishers, but it will be consumers that that will be the kingmakers’ kingmaker - TNPS 2020.
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November 22, 2024 at 10:38 PM
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Redundancies in UK Publishing: A Misleading Snapshot of 2024.

The Bookseller ran yesterday with the headline "Budget, AI and rising costs: industry insiders discuss redundancy trends", yet AI actually got mentioned twice, and at no time was linked to any job losses.
November 16, 2024 at 1:58 PM