Unicorn Academy series author Julie Sykes and art historian Ruth Millington have been plagued by fake author profiles on Facebook and Instagram, revealing "anger, frustration and vulnerability" over the situation.
The man in the video says there's a simple reason why I'm not rich. "Most people have a scarcity mindset," he explains through a thick Australian accent, addressing the camera like a wise mentor lecturing a student. "Top-tier people-actual movers and shakers that are doing things-have an abundance mindset." Behind him, an ancient sword hangs on the wall. For some reason, he's in a bathrobe.
Almost 60% of LinkedIn's users are between the ages of 25 and 34, making it the single largest demographic to use the platform. And this is a demographic with a willingness to pay for news.
Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.
Twitter is still the place where media publishers collectively have the largest audiences, followed by Facebook and Instagram, according to an Axios analysis of 82 major news, entertainment and sports publishers.
Why it matters: While some publishers are finding quick success on TikTok, the platform yields fewer overall followers for publishers than other social platforms. Read more
On Mar. 13, 2020, I posted a piece of writing to my small group of friends on Facebook. My response to lockdown during the first anxious stage of a pandemic was a brief prose poem told from the future, describing the choices we'd made in facing the virus. That night, a friend asked if she could repost it. "Sure," I replied, and that was that.
It was Christopher Hitchens, the much-celebrated author and critic, who claimed, "everybody does have a book in them but, in most cases, that's where it should stay." Read more
A novelist friend told me that social media is pretty much mandatory these days, otherwise I could expect to remain plankton in a sea of fish all swimming toward the same accolades. As a poet, I'm already used to being a small fry, yet as I move into writing journalism and creative nonfiction, I've wondered whether I should log back on.
Poets ‘are the great people in literature because they manage to gather thought and feeling, and intellectual and emotional intensity into words in a way that I haven't done in my writing...
An "upbeat" and busy Bologna Children's Book Fair 2025 has seen a marked appetite for shorter and illustrated works - despite there being no runaway book of the fair - though the grim state of geopolitics dimmed many fairgoers' moods.
The global graphic novel market is getting more attention in Bologna this year, with an expanded number of exhibitors and panels dedicated to the topic. "Graphic novels represent one of the most significant growth areas in children's publishing globally," Peter Warwick, CEO of Scholastic, said during a panel celebrating the 20th anniversary of Scholastic's Graphix imprint. Read more
The explosion of generative artificial intelligence technologies, including such large language models as ChatGPT, caught many in the book business off guard when it began in earnest in late 2023. Read more
April is Stress Awareness Month, an initiative designed to put emotional wellbeing at the forefront and a good time to revisit pastoral care in the publishing industry. But how would you, as a publishing professional, know if an author is stressed? And what can you do about it if they are?
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis (T&F) has announced plans to use AI translation tools to publish books "that would otherwise be unavailable to English-language readers".
Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI programmes, as reported in the Atlantic, provoking outcry from many writers and organisations such as the Society of Authors (SoA).
‘I am a crime writer, I understand theft,' said Val McDermid - joining Richard Osman, Kazuo Ishiguro and Kate Mosse in their appeal to Lisa Nandy to act on their behalf
A number of authors including Richard Osman, Val McDermid, Kate Mosse, Kazuo Ishiguro and Sarah Waters have signed an open letter from the Society of Authors (SoA) demanding that Meta be held to account by the UK government following allegations in the US that authors' works have been used without permission or remuneration to train its artificial intelligence (AI) model.