Workshop on legal aspects of publishing

The Malta Entertainment Industry and Arts Association (MEIA) Literature Committee is organising a workshop offering a practical and accessible overview of the legal landscape surrounding authorship and publishing. Led by Jeanine Rizzo, the session will …

Morocco’s national library releases first-ever report on publishing industry

The National Library of the Kingdom of Morocco presented Friday its first-ever report on the state of publishing and books in Morocco for 2024.  The event, attended by professionals, researchers, and culture enthusiasts, marked a milestone in the library’s …

How many people work in the game industry? | Two different views

Amir Satvat, the game job champion, estimated recently that about 230,000 people work in the game industry. That sounded low to Kenn White, one of the leaders of the Game Industry Coffee Chat. So White’s crew dug into the numbers on their own and came up …

Copyright violations hit book industry

ZIMBABWE Academic and Non-Fiction Authors’ Association president, Dr Samuel Makore, yesterday said the book industry was no longer vibrant due to raft of problems including piracy, lack of reading culture and lax implementation of copyright law. ZIMBABWE …

Opinion: STAT readers on the animal wellness industry, drug price floors, and more

First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech insiders, health care workers, researchers, and others. To encourage robust, good-faith discussion about issues …

Publishing Poetry Today and Tomorrow: What Are You, In Love With Your Problems?

Preface In Search of an Author from a Pamphlet In Search of a Printer Visiting the downtown Cleveland Public Library, I noticed a book under that marble bench on the first floor—a green notebook, cheap, spiral-bound, covered in dust; yet, as I read through …

WV data center moves relying on fossil fuels despite industry trend toward renewables

“We still have a lot of coal left in the ground.” Gov. Patrick Morrisey speaks at an April 23, 2025 news conference at West Virginia Independence Hall in Wheeling. Courtesy photo That’s how Gov. Patrick Morrisey, speaking at a news conference in Wheeling …

The Brave New World of Book Publishing

In front of me sit five books from my bookshelf: Blindness by José Saramago, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe, Crazy Horse and Custer by Stephen Ambrose, and All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque …

Nasra Artan named to Forbes 30 Under 30 for role at Sony Music Publishing

Friday April 25, 2025 LONDON, UK (HOL) — Forbes has named Nasra Artan, the Somali-Norwegian executive leading international A&R at Sony Music Publishing, to its 2025 30 Under 30 Europe list in the Entertainment category, recognizing her for reshaping …

Publishing grapples with where to draw the line on AI