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Editing for the Ear: What I Learned Producing My Own Audiobook
2+ hour, 25+ min ago (701+ words) When the themes and text of her book proved challenging for an audiobook publisher to find a narrator, author Shelley Fisher Fishkin took on producing the book herself. By Shelley Fisher Fishkin I hadn't planned to produce an audiobook myself…...
Spain registers record book sales despite rise of AI
1+ hour, 34+ min ago (683+ words) Books face the age of artificial intelligence (AI) with record sales and revenue. The publishing sector in Spain generated a revenue of almost 3. 14 billion euros in 2025, marking 12 consecutive years of growth. This is data from the 2025 book trade report by…...
Athenaeum Boekhandel & Nieuwscentrum, Amsterdam. A printed archive on the Spui
3+ hour, 10+ min ago (593+ words) Athenaeum occupies a white Dutch Baroque building at Spui 1416. Red and white awnings mark the entrance. Behind the illuminated windows, book covers, magazines and newspapers form a dense surface of paper, colour and typography. The shop presents itself before one…...
The Guardian Hosts Live Book Q&A Featuring Editorial Leaders
2+ hour, 20+ min ago (169+ words) asatunews. co. id The Guardian has launched a live interactive session focusing on literature and their recent major ranking projects. As reported by The Guardian, joint head of books Liese Spencer and non-fiction editor David Shariatmadari are joining the digital…...
Culture Minister Promises Freer Book Market at Opening of Book Week
3+ hour, 37+ min ago (512+ words) The Hungarian government will guarantee the free operation of the country's book market, launch broad consultations with industry stakeholders and suspend the application of fixed-price regulations, Minister for Social Affairs and Culture Zolt'n Tarr announced on Thursday at the opening…...
What's on at the Borders Book Festival today - Friday 12 June 2026
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Flip HTML5 Lets Users Create Ebooks with AI Free for Professional Publishing
16+ min ago (339+ words) Financial Content Flip HTML5 enables users to create ebooks with AI free, providing intelligent content generation and editing tools for cost-effective, professional digital publishing. HONG KONG, June 12, 2026 /24-7 Press Release/ -- Flip HTML5 introduces a comprehensive AI ebook generator designed for users seeking to…...
Authors and publishers weigh in on the use of AI amid the Granta-Commonwealth Prize AI scandal
7+ hour, 54+ min ago (61+ words) Updated - June 12, 2026 09: 13 am IST (With inputs from Rosella Stephen) The writer's new book, Waterbaby', will be out this year. Published - June 12, 2026 06: 30 am IST The Hindu Sunday Magazine / Literary Review / books and literature / books and publishing / authors and poets / fiction / non-fiction…...
Publishing in post-truth world
14+ hour, 39+ min ago (312+ words) Once more, it is a rout'apparently, Penguin wanted Sacco to remove "red flags" and update a map to risk-proof the distributor, and he wouldn't. Once more, there is dismay. Ram Guha calls the drawdown "pusillanimous". Arundhati Roy hopes Sacco finds…...
What Granta's Commonwealth Prize AI scandal tells us about the future of literary writing
10+ hour, 22+ min ago (225+ words) In the same week, Mia Ballard's'Shy Girl,'a novel signed to publisher Hachette in the U. S. , lost its contract when on investigation, it appeared to have been penned partially by AI. Ballard claims it was only edited by AI, and that…...