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Supporting A Better Media Environment
What do we want our national discourse to sound like? What do we want to have conversations with our friends and family about?
Authors at London Book Fair Vote on Brexit
The “psychological effect” of Brexit on researchers, said Tim Britton “is impossible to measure” and could potentially have a far bigger impact than any of the actual policies Brexit may eventually settle on.
Scholarly Publishing Through a Brexit Lens
If the nature and even timing of Brexit remain unclear, one may yet predict that Brexit will mean important changes for the UK’s scholarly publishing community.
Best of BTB: The Web at 25
Today, March 12, marks the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web. CERN, where in 1989, Tim Berners-Lee drafted his proposal for a way to link documents and data across the Internet, is celebrating the occasion, along with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the World Wide Web Foundation.
The Race to the Streamers
Porter Anderson, Publishing Perspectives editor-in-chief, notes important ways that the exchange between page and screen is evolving.
Books, Brexit, and Brinksmanship
The countdown to London Book Fair – and Brexit – is approaching an end.
From Mexico City to the World
Founded in Paris in 1896, the International Publishers Association may have headquarters in Geneva, but for the next two years, its heart will lie in Mexico City.
Alexa, Read My Book
‘Alexa read me my book.’ is a popular refrain from people who want to unwind after work, and that’s changing the way audiobooks are being marketed.
Searching For Bestsellers On Wattpad
At Wattpad, says Ashleigh Gardner “we have a huge pool of content that we could never read ourselves as human editors. We really lean on machine learning to help us understand what those stories are about before we even open the page.”
BookExpo’s Bestseller Breakfast
This week, PW launched The Fanatic, a biweekly email newsletter on graphic novels and comic books
A Publisher and a Mensch
“I keep an eye on absolutely everything. I’m discovering things that I never, never knew about how the nuts and bolts of the business work.”
A Strong Year for Consumer Book Sales
While 2018 numbers brought smiles to faces at trade book houses, publishers in other segments suffered significant declines in sales.