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Introduction The academic publishing world has long been dominated by the Global North: think of those large, commercial, and often wildly profitable publishing houses headquartered in North America and Western Europe. This dominance has created a landscape where the knowledge, research questions, and institutional contexts of the Global South—a term generally encompassing countries in Africa, … Read more
Introduction The staid, centuries-old world of academic publishing is being aggressively prodded into the future, and one of the most intriguing characters doing the prodding is Perplexity AI. This isn’t just another shiny new chatbot; it’s a new kind of “answer engine” that is fundamentally challenging the traditional research workflow, and by extension, the entire … Read more
Introduction The publishing industry, once the stalwart bastion of paper and ink, has become a relentless, high-speed laboratory for technological and cultural change. For anyone working in the field—from the Big Five houses to the scrappiest independent authors and academic journal editors—keeping an eye on the horizon is not just a hobby; it is the … Read more
Introduction The digital publishing market in 2026 is less a predictable landscape and more a dynamic, high-velocity ecosystem shaped by tectonic shifts in technology, consumer behavior, and economic models. The days of simply porting a print document to a PDF and calling it ‘digital’ are long gone, replaced by a complex interplay of AI-driven personalization, … Read more
It is a remarkably peculiar moment to be a publisher, an author, or even an enthusiastic reader. For years, the industry has operated with a certain stoic resilience, seemingly immune to the kind of seismic, near-instantaneous disruption that has fundamentally reshaped other media sectors. We published books, journals, and magazines; people bought them; and the … Read more