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Introduction Once upon a time, publishing a book was an event. A ritual, even. Manuscripts were passed from trembling author hands to red-inked editors, shuffled through design meetings, marketing huddles, and printer schedules before emerging, if lucky, as a physical object with a barcode and spine. That model, romantic as it may sound, is already … Read more
Introduction If there’s one publishing ecosystem that has moved at breakneck speed over the last two decades, it’s China’s. Once seen as a closed-off, state-controlled academic backwater, the country has transformed into a publishing superpower, churning out more research papers than any other nation. The Chinese academic publishing market will have become both a global … Read more
Introduction The world is drowning in knowledge, ironically, at a time when fewer people seem to be reading it. By 2026, global scientific output is projected to surpass 6 million research articles in a single year. That’s more than 16,000 articles every day, over 670 every hour, and about 11 every minute. If that doesn’t … Read more
Introduction Before the term “predatory journal” was a staple of every academic editor’s vocabulary, before university librarians whispered warnings about shady publishers charging authors for fake peer review, there was Jeffrey Beall. A quiet academic librarian from the University of Colorado Denver, Beall launched a blog that would shake the foundations of scholarly publishing. It … Read more
Introduction The UK publishing market in 2025 stands on the edge of multiple revolutions—some quiet, others deafening. Once a bastion of tradition, the sector now finds itself juggling the analog elegance of print with the algorithmic speed of digital disruption. Bookstores are still around (yes, those quaint havens of paper and spines), but so are … Read more