Spain: AI-created personalised children’s books – “the start of a major disruption in the children’s content industry”
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TNPS on LinkedIn – a round-up
With so much publishing industry news and debate, there’s never time for TNPS to cover it...
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UAE – The Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre has launched the complete “Oyoon Al She’er Al Arabi” Arabic poetry series for World Poetry Day on March 21
The series includes anthologies of Arabic poetry from the pre-Islamic era to the 18th century,...
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Publishers – Be afraid. Be very afraid. Or get real. Embrace the opportunity and enjoy the ride
Beware the future. It’s closer than we think. DAISYS.ai just put out a link on LinkedIn to...
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Colombia – Bogota International Book Fair returns in April. Will it attract 600,000+ visitors once more?
This year there will be 13 dedicated Professional Conferences among the 2,000 cultural events...
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US – AAP-reported trade revenues up 3.1% in January. Ebooks up 3.7%. Unreported Kindle Unlimited pay-out up 5.7% – over half the AAP total
If we add the KU pay-out to the AAP figure we have an ebook market value for January of $132.9...
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AI – “Rather than condemning it, seek to understand it.”
AI is not the enemy. It’s a tool, just like social media and all the other publishing demons...
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How Crunchyroll Is Beating the Competition in Anime Streaming – Even Netflix
Harris’s in-depth report is well worth setting aside a long coffee break for, and publishers...
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Spain: AI-created personalised children’s books – “the start of a major disruption in the children’s content industry”
This AI-created audio-visual format “will change the rules of the game in this...
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UK – ITV Launching Kids Streamer, CITV to Shutter in Autumn. Publishers, wake up and smell the coffee
Many publishers will of course continue to limit the amount of content available through...
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Iceland’s Publishers Association Book Fair sold 1 book for every 4 residents
Fully one third of all books consumed in Iceland are audiobooks. 97,829 books sold at any book...
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ChatGPT Is Coming for Your Office Job. Or maybe it isn’t. But history teachers will soon be history
AI will never replace a good history teacher that can bring the subject to life for a child. But...
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Peppa Pig Launches on Disney+ in 19 New Markets / 25 Languages. Publishers, wake up and smell the streaming coffee
With PRH’s Markus Dohle moved on, the single biggest and most powerful opponent of book...
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On March 13 Morocco opens for online applications for publisher support
If the Moroccan government is serious about developing the publishing industry then it needs to...
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“Totally Spies!” Webtoon Adaptation in Belgium while Anglophone publishers still think webtoon is a dirty word
The publishing and reading landscape is changing beyond recognition, yet many publishers are...
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Cornerstone to advertise a book on Netflix as 15% of all global internet traffic goes to the streaming giant. Publisher opportunities abound
We’ll have to wait and see whether publishers will be forward-thinking enough to take this...
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India – Confusion over New Delhi World Book Fair numbers as conflicting reports emerge. Could I million be 2 million?
This being India, both numbers are entirely credible, but clearly one or both is inaccurate....
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India – Almost 1 million visitors, but sales disappoint at the New Delhi World Book Fair
While one million visitors may sound impressive, it barely matches other provincial book fairs in...
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Canada’s De Marque is acquiring 2,000 digital books in the Ukrainian language to meet significant demand
But I have to say that at a broader level it’s a shame it’s taken a war to get Ukraine...
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Pakistan – restricted book imports, spiralling prices and economic chaos. Not a good time to be a publisher
It’s the classic digital books chicken and egg conundrum. Publishers do not produce digital...
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Bangladesh – 6 million visitors spent $4.4 million on books at the world’s biggest book fair
…But when we consider Bangladesh has literally twice as many internet users as the UK,...
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