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Editor's Letter

The margin call

A zeitgeist-defining Budget has done little to assuage the worry that market shifts are causing agents and publishers.

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Crowd control

by Alex Milway

Thinking about crowdfunding your book? Here’s why this bestselling children’s author took the leap.

Does not translate

by Lisa Fransson

AI can never match human translators—but we need authors to support us.

The backlist bonus

by Anna Hervé

It’s time that literary estates learned from the children’s trade and put their considerable classic backlists to work.

Editor‘s Letter

The margin call

A zeitgeist-defining Budget has done little to assuage the worry that market shifts are causing agents and publishers.

READ LETTER IN FULL

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Cutting through the Babel

by Nadim Sadek

AI will only fulfil its potential with help from publishing’s human talent.

Looking to the light

by Indi Deol

Diwali offers the perfect time to reflect on how publishing still needs to change.

What are publicists to do?

by Lamorna Elmer

The end of "Open Book" offers yet another example of how difficult broadcast media for authors has become.

Breaking through

by Bella Green

Why is the path to a publishing job so obscure?

Distant stars

by Saphia Maxamed and Christoper Norris

Why one activist believes we must pull down the barriers around great Black authors.

Culture wars

by Jo Glanville

The recent call to boycott some Israeli cultural institutions is a backwards step.

Go (South) West

by Samantha Walton

Bristol has become a hive of literary activity, but the book industry could do more to engage its creatively-minded community.

A turn of events

by Darran McLaughlin

While literary festivals face existential threat due to funding issues and controversial sponsors, indie bookshops are filling the event-space void across the South West.

The good news about bad news

by Philip Jones

Are we starting to look at a fundamental reshaping of the consumer books markets?

Full circle

by Steph Thwaites

I, together with others, felt there was a need for a Jewish community in publishing to come together, in a way I hadn’t felt before. This was the beginning of The Jewish Publishing Circle.