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.
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 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 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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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 opens free in Manila, July 10–12, with 200+ exhibitors, masterclasses, and a Larry Alcala centennial tribute.
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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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Major publishers condemn AI as theft while deploying automation to cut narrator, translator, warehouse and operational jobs. TNPS examines the selective labour theory behind publishing’s AI moral framework.
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The Sharjah Book Authority visited Kuala Lumpur two weeks before KLIBF, meeting Big Bad Wolf, BookXcess and Kota Buku. TNPS analyses what it means for the emerging south-south publishing corridor.
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IPG signs five publishers to its sales and distribution programmes from June 2026, spanning children’s, educational, business, and translated literature.
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The 2026 Warsaw International Book Fair runs 28–31 May at PGE Narodowy, with Sharjah as Guest of Honour and 1,200+ industry events.
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The Spotify/UMG AI licensing deal is a working blueprint publishing could have built. Instead, the industry’s anti-AI stance is handing the advantage to platforms.
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Turin Book Fair 2026 closes with 254,000 visitors, rising sales, and a packed Rights Centre. Catalonia named 2027 Guest of Honour Literature.
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While western publishers debate AI as existential threat, Korea’s Publishers Association president Kim Tae-heon proposed a licensed data market architecture that protects rights and builds new revenue simultaneously. The strategic divergence has consequences.
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The 50th Buenos Aires International Book Fair broke attendance records with 1.34m visitors and expanded 50,000 sqm space, cementing its status as the leading Spanish-language publishing marketplace.
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