Introduction Academic journal publishing has never been easy. But as we settle into 2025, what used to be slow-moving tectonic shifts have turned into a full-blown earthquake. Publishers, editors, and scholarly communication managers are grappling with open access mandates, AI-generated submissions, shrinking funding, and the ghost of predatory publishing. The peer review system groans under … Read more
Introduction At first glance, Substack looks like the messiah publishing never saw coming. It promises the holy trinity of modern content creation—autonomy, direct audience access, and cold, hard cash. For writers tired of gatekeepers, freelancers craving predictable income, and columnists itching to escape editorial red tape, Substack seems like the answer to a decades-old publishing … Read more
Introduction The phrase “artificial intelligence” no longer conjures images of far-off futures or science fiction dreamscapes. It’s here, baked into your Google search, humming beneath Grammarly’s grammar check, nudging you toward a better headline on Medium. AI has subtly, then spectacularly, woven into how we create, edit, distribute, and consume written content. And nowhere is … Read more
Introduction Toni Morrison didn’t just write novels—she orchestrated symphonies with sentences, dismantled history with dialogue, and haunted generations with the poetry of pain. To read Morrison is to be submerged in the power of words. Her prose doesn’t merely communicate; it conjures, unsettles, and redefines. She wasn’t interested in telling straightforward stories. She was after … Read more
Introduction Penguin Random House (PRH) recently announced its acquisition of Wonderbly, a London-based personalized children’s book publisher best known for its smash hit, The Little Boy Who Lost His Name. The move raised more than a few eyebrows in the publishing world. Here was the biggest trade book publisher in the world getting into a … Read more