America’s reading crisis is a crisis of the classroom
Americans don't read. Might it be because a lot of them were never taught properly?
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The whole Gen Z can’t read mantra is a crock of shit. They just aren’t reading so much where traditional publishing needs them to be.
Gen Beta are being set up to fail, and neither side of the Atlantic (the ocean, that is, not the...
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America’s reading crisis is a crisis of the classroom
Americans don’t read. Might it be because a lot of them were never taught properly?
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2026 Southern China Book Fair to Debut APEC Pavilion Ahead of Shenzhen Summit
The 2026 Southern China Book Fair opens 27 August in Guangzhou with a debut APEC pavilion and Thailand as Guest of Honour, ahead of November’s APEC summit.
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Delhi High Court Rules for OpenAI: The Third Major Fair-Use Verdict in 13 Months, and the Weakest Position Publishers Have Been In Yet
Delhi High Court denies ANI’s injunction against OpenAI, ruling AI training is fair dealing — the third major court to back AI labs in just over a year.
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Two Kinds of Money: What China’s AI Crackdown Reveals About Publishing’s Real AI Divide
China shut down AI companion apps on July 15 — the same day Bloomsbury quietly banked record profit from licensing its books to AI. The trade/academic divide, explained.
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RIP Reading Redux. Big 5 CEO David Shelley Plays the ‘Smartphones Did It Card’ at the Worst Possible Moment
Hachette CEO David Shelley blames smartphones for the reading crisis in a widely syndicated op-ed. The correlation is real. The causation isn’t – and his own history should have warned him.
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Sharjah’s BookXcess Deal Has a Six-Year Backstory, and the West Still Isn’t Watching
Sharjah has secured exclusive rights to operate BookXcess across the Middle East and Africa. TNPS traces the deal back to a 2019 pledge — and asks why Western trade press missed it.
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India – Chinar Book Festival Returns for Third Edition in Srinagar
Best of all, the festival will host the 5K Reading Marathon – “Together We Read,...
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Which Screen? Why The Atlantic’s “The End of Reading” Measures the Wrong Thing
The Atlantic blames shrinking attention spans for reading’s decline. The research it cites measured office multitasking, not books – and today’s bestsellers are longer than ever.
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The Geopolitics of the Bestseller: Why The Atlantic’s Doctor Zhivago Myth Fails the Reading Test
The Atlantic used Doctor Zhivago to argue Americans once read harder books. The real story is a CIA operation, a refused Nobel, and a translation quirk — not declining minds.
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Getty Images Fought AI In The Courts, Lost, Then Lucratively Partnered With It: Lessons For Book Publishing
Getty fought AI in court, lost the key ruling, then built OpenAI and Perplexity licensing deals. What book publishers should learn from the pivot.
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Beyond the Islands: How the Caribbean Collective Could Transform Regional Publishing
Jamaica’s Caribbean Collective aims to strengthen regional publishing, rights and visibility. What it means for Caribbean publishing and global trade.
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PICOF 2026: Manila’s Free Comics Festival Opens Its Doors to the World
PICOF 2026 opens free in Manila, July 10–12, with 200+ exhibitors, masterclasses, and a Larry Alcala centennial tribute.
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AI Data Centres and the Green Moral Panic: What Publishing Gets Wrong About AI’s Environmental Impact
The viral claims about AI data centres and water use are real but missing context. TNPS examines what the numbers actually mean, what the regulatory precedents are, and why publishing’s green panic is selective to the point of dishonesty.
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I Asked Eight AIs About the Amazon AI-Books Panic. They Couldn’t Agree How Big Amazon Is
A viral chart and a straightforward question, put to eight freemium AI tools. The answers didn’t just disagree on conclusions – they disagreed on basic, checkable facts, with total confidence, every time.
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The AI Books Panic Chart Is Real. The Panic Isn’t
The chart has been doing the rounds this month, and because it’s of the kind that travels well precisely because it needs no caption – a red wave climbing against a pink one, a single dotted line marking the release of ChatGPT-3.5 – it even managed to penetrate the darkness of power-crisis-ridden The Gambia.
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The Iron Maiden Piracy Myth – AI and Publishing’s Missed Opportunities
The debunked Iron Maiden piracy myth resurfaces on LinkedIn. A look at what really happened, why AI fact-checking failed, and what publishers should learn.
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Publisher Fellowship Programme: South Asia International Book Fair 2026
Apply for the SAIBF 2026 Publisher Fellowship in Colombo. Five global publishers win funded residencies with B2B matchmaking. Deadline: 30 July 2026.
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Publishing must learn to walk and chew AI gum at the same time
Trade bodies decry AI training while quietly cutting costs with it. A response to Javier Celaya’s growth-strategy challenge — and where it leads.
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Why David Shelley Will Never Be AI Witchfinder General
Hachette CEO David Shelley’s caution against AI detection tools reflects hard-won wisdom from acquiring J.K. Rowling’s pseudonymous debut, The Cuckoo’s Calling.
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