Introduction For most of its modern history, the audiobook market has been defined by constraint. It was expensive to produce, slow to scale, and limited in reach. Recording a single title required professional voice actors, studio time, sound engineers, post-production editing, and distribution logistics that were far from trivial. Even large publishers had to be … Read more
Introduction For years, the conversation around artificial intelligence in academic publishing has been framed in the most predictable way possible. AI will make things faster. Faster peer review. Faster copyediting. Faster production. Faster publishing. It is a comforting narrative. It suggests continuity. It implies that the system itself remains intact, only accelerated. That narrative is … Read more
Introduction: The Industry That Quietly Disappeared For most of modern history, publishing was easy to define. It was an industry built around producing books, printing them, distributing them, and ultimately selling them. Everything else, from marketing to editorial positioning, existed to support that core function. Control the pipeline, and you controlled the industry. That model … Read more
The Industry Is Looking in the Wrong Direction For decades, global publishing has operated with a quiet assumption. The industry’s center of gravity sits firmly in the West, anchored in New York, London, and a handful of European capitals. Everything else exists somewhere along a spectrum of “emerging markets,” places to expand into, not places … Read more
Introduction For two decades, publishers have operated under a simple assumption: visibility leads to traffic, and traffic leads to revenue. Search engines made that assumption feel almost natural. You publish content, optimize it, and if you rank well, users arrive. The system was not perfect, but it was predictable. There was a clear exchange. Publishers … Read more