Publishing

Introduction For more than two decades, open access has dominated conversations about the future of scholarly publishing. Publishers debated it. Librarians championed it. Funders mandated it. Researchers argued over it. Entire business models were redesigned around it. The basic premise was simple. Research should be freely available to anyone who wants to read it. In … Read more

Introduction For decades, academic publishing operated on a quiet social contract. Researchers conducted studies, wrote papers, submitted them to journals, and in return received something that was rarely financial but often professionally invaluable: visibility, prestige, citations, career advancement, and a place in the scholarly record. Publishers, meanwhile, handled the infrastructure of dissemination, archiving, editorial management, … Read more

Introduction: AI Did Not Enter Publishing as a Neutral Tool Artificial intelligence has arrived in publishing wrapped in the language of efficiency. Industry conferences celebrate faster editorial workflows, smarter metadata generation, automated marketing copy, cheaper audiobook production, and AI-assisted manuscript review. On the surface, it all sounds like a productivity revolution, another technological upgrade in … Read more

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