The 2024 annual meeting of the Association of American Publishers featured Nobel laureate Maria Ressa and a focus on AI and copyright. The post AAP’s 2024 Annual Meeting: ‘No Silver Bullet to Regulate AI’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

For the first time on record, the United Kingdom's book publishing industry exceeded £7billion in 2023, downloaded audio jumping 24 percent. The post UK: Book Revenues Surpassed £7 Billion Pounds in 2023 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Germany's ResearchGate and its 'Journal Home' platform have announced a partnership with the Hungarian scientific publisher Akadémiai Kiadó. The post Budapest and Berlin: Akadémiai Kiadó in Partnership With ResearchGate appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Perminder Mann, CEO of Bonnier Books UK, has been appointed president of the Publishers Association.

Hamish Hamilton’s literary magazine Five Dials has closed after 16 years to “make space for all the new talent fizzing at the margins”. 

Jacques Tsiantar has won the £500 Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short Fiction for his "uncanny" story, "Birds of our word".

Hannah Weatherill has joined Watson, Little where she will handle the agency’s book-to-screen rights representation as well as building her own list of commercial and upmarket fiction and non-fiction.

TikTok is teaming up with the National Literacy Trust (NLT) for the first time to deliver 20 BookTok Bookshelves in locations across the UK as part of its BookTok Summer.

Katie Espiner has been promoted to c.e.o. of the nine Adult Trade Divisions at Hachette UK, following a series of promotions and structural changes at Hachette UK and Hachette Book Group.

Canongate has been granted B Corp Certification, becoming the first UK trade publisher to gain the accreditation. 

In its second week on sales, Jojo Moyes’ Someone Else’s Shoes nearly doubles its take to nab the top spot, despite a strong paperback launch from Chris van Tulleken’s Ultra-Processed People

UK authors, publishing houses and booksellers are leaning into the “healing fiction” space, a trend which has been powered almost exclusively by Japanese and Korean literature in translation until recently.

Efforts to expand educational accessibility and foster global collaboration are on the rise. Realizing the full potential of Transnational Education (TNE) requires an examination of the regulatory frameworks that have been established to navigating cultural inclusivity, and gaining deeper insights into the distinction between TNE and online learning. The post Navigating the Future of Higher…

Stuart Broad’s Broadly Speaking (Hodder & Stoughton) and Chris Kamara’s Kammy (Pan Macmillan) have been shortlisted for the Charles Tyrwhitt Autobiography of the Year award, run with the Sunday Times.

HarperCollins eked out only a small profit in its latest quarter, with a 14% increase in digital audiobook sales insufficient in offsetting softer sales to Walmart and Costco and slowing sales of romance books and children's books.