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Book Sales Report Card A++
The report card on last year’s US trade book sales is A++, says NPD Bookscan’s Kristen McLean.
If Audiobooks Go AI
“People who direct audiobooks, people who edit audiobooks, people who check audiobook narration for word-for-word perfection against the manuscript would be impacted. And in this age of deep fakes, there are ethical issues too.”
Writing Women Scientists Into Wikipedia
When you look in Wikipedia for the contributions that women or people from the Global South have made to science and discovery, they’re missing, says British scientist Dr. Jessica Wade.
Antitrust Subpoena Headaches for Publishers, Agents
Requests for information on book deals called, “costly, time consuming, and intrusive.”
Plain Language Means Better Science
Plain Language Summaries move published research beyond the basic definition of Open Access – availability – toward a more ambitious goal of understandability.
“Maus” Out at Tennessee Middle School
Efforts continue across the US to ban books in public libraries and in schools.
Keeping Up with Information
Too much information. If that’s driving you insane, then you should know there are ways to focus and filter for information success.
Since 1872, Publishers Weekly Has Delivered The News
Publishers Weekly celebrates a 150th birthday
This Audiobook Was Narrated By No One
A shift from analog to digital voices would lower production costs, lead to greater choice in titles, and mean a lot less work for Hollywood actors between pictures.