Sanderson Jones made a podcast. People liked his podcast, but he didn’t really make any money from it, so he stopped doing it. But, as you’ll hear in the latest episode of Hyperfixed, his podcast didn’t actually stop. Someone else hacked his podcast account, switched his podcast host, cloned his voice… and just carried on…
Geneva/Istanbul, 21 October— The Pledge for Gender Equality in Publishing, a new initiative calling on publishers worldwide to take concrete action to advance gender equality across the publishing industry and through the books and stories they bring to readers, has been launched by the “EU 4 Gender Equality: Together against gender stereotypes and gender-based violence”…
The chief executive of High Line Publishing and former managing director of Hodder & Stoughton Oliver Malcolm appeared on the TRIGGERnometry podcast on 17th October, where he spoke on the number of women working in publishing, DEI efforts, and monoculturalism in the industry, among other topics. Malcolm left Hodder & Stoughton suddenly in 2024. Malcolm…
Neil Blair's High Line Publishing Studio aims to be the answer to the silent boycott of Israel in the literary world. But could the initiative end up creating a literary ghetto of its own?
“What publishers and literary agents are struggling with behind the scenes is what percentage of AI assistance crosses the line into, ‘we could lose more money than we stand to make,’” publishing journalist Jane Friedman said.
If you’ve ever been to a bookstore with an author, you may have noticed something unique: Authors don’t check out new books like normal people. Your average reader, when picking up a book, will first inspect the cover, then he or she will read the summary, and finally he or she will glance at the
A Sydney author – I’ll call her Rebecca – vowed never to write another book after the maddening experience of publishing her first book. She is using a pseudonym because one day she may change her mind; The notoriously small Australian publishing industry does not view complaining authors with favour. When Rebecca was proofreading her
Leading literary magazine Granta will no longer publish the winning entries of the annual Commonwealth Short Story Prize after widespread allegations of the use of AI were made against one of this year’s winners. The magazine said it would no longer engage in “external publishing partnerships” over which it has no editorial control. In a