Mark Williams At Large – Recommended Reading w/e 4 December 2021
So many stories of interest to the publishing industry cross my desk every day that make a tweet...
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Category: AI
AI audiobooks take a big step towards the audio New Normal with DeepZen Ingram partnership
…The global audiobook market could be poised to reach heights few in the industry today...
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Be afraid. Be just a tiny bit afraid. TikTok owner ByteDance targets 3-fold growth in 2021
One thing we all need to understand is that AI-produced content doesn’t have to be perfect to be...
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Publishers stand to lose sales worth $46,000 per day thanks to poor search abilities of smartspeakers
For a while it seemed like smartspeakers were the new black of digital audio, driving sales ever...
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China’s unmanned 24/7 bookstores track customer trajectory to offer book recommendations as booklovers move around the store
While we in the west have been enthralled by Amazon’s move into bricks & mortar bookstores and...
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Beware the future. It’s closer than you think. AI and Publishing
Anyone who thinks AI won’t be able to write literature that’s as good as anything a human can...
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Driverless cars open up new publishing opportunities. Renault is first to rise to the challenge
The French car manufacturer Renault has bought a 40% stake in Challenges Group, the publisher of...
Read MoreSelf-publishing news round-up 21 October 2017
Smart Author Podcasts from Smashwords Being exclusive or “going wide” Amazon acts as judge, jury and executioner Author-signings and ebooks Making end-matter maintenance easier StreetLib-OverDrive Christmas promotion...
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Publishing Brief – PublishDrive and StreetLib in the news
It’s been an interesting week on the aggregator circuit. Usually, either at Frankfurt or to...
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Digital Change – Opportunities and Challenges Ahead
“Digitalization will fundamentally change society and economy as we know it,” says...
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