Category: Publishing Controversies
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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Restructuring at PRH -meaningful, or musical chairs?
In the wake of the Court debacle that led to Markus Dohle’s long-overdue resignation, the...
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TNPS values the US trade ebook market at $3.65 billion in 2022, regardless of what the AAP and Nielsen will tell us
That still leaves audio a long, long way to go – another $1.65 billion since you ask – to...
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Beware The Future – It’s Closer Than You Think
“AI can never replace human creativity!” So why are you running about like a headless chicken...
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About that nonsensical GBP 7,000 ($8,450) median earnings for UK authors…
When I put pen to paper to write a book there is no guarantee I will earn a single penny from it....
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Will Snap CEO’s dismissal of the Metaverse come back to haunt him?
But isn’t “pretty ambiguous and hypothetical” exactly how we would have...
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Obama’s new book banned as an audiobook in Sweden – by PRH
To be clear, PRH has not banned the audiobook in Swedish outright, but without revenue from the...
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The dam has been breached! Amazon’s Audible launches an unlimited audiobook subscription service in Spain. How long now before Audible rolls out the model in the US?
As and when Amazon decides that Audible shall become an unlimited audiobook subscription service...
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Video game becomes part of Poland’s official school reading list as the definition of books and reading blurs
For the purists among us who think that a book isn’t a book unless it was written by hand with a...
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Lockdown exposes the deep flaws in Data Guy’s Bookstat guessing game
From the very first Author Earnings Report the efforts of the web-scraping expert known as Data...
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Simon & Schuster Q1 revenue up 4%, driven by 16% growth in ebook and audiobook sales. Audio defies the no-commuters-equals-no-audiobook-sales narrative
As part of ViacomCBS the Simon & Schuster management, like HarperCollins, understands the...
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Mapping the new normal: USA’s Books-A-Million re-opens bookstores with curbside pick-up, staff in PPE, telephone experts, and cosmetic cases in beautiful floral prints
America’s second-largest bookstore chain, Books-A-Million, is readying for Mother’s...
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