Spain was especially hard hit by the 2008 financial crisis, with a housing market collapse, credit growth in real estate, a fast-shrinking GDP, unemployment reportedly hitting 27 percent, and political upheaval. In 11 years of annual growth—a 39.2-percent increase since 2014—the Spanish market has made its way back into profitability. - Publishing Perspectives
As the only outlet covering their communities, these papers still have an audience willing to pay for them, and many of them are profitable. What they don’t have is anyone to take over when the publisher gets sick, dies, or is simply desperate to retire. - Columbia Journalism Review
Many Pensacola parents were appalled by this surge of censorship; some wondered if it was unconstitutional. By early 2024, a U.S. district court judge ruled that Penguin Random House, PEN America, authors, and families in Escambia County had standing to sue. - LitHub
"Before their arrival, my classmates had been editorial assistants and reporters and interns for major publications. I had been working nights as a package handler at a UPS warehouse for three years, heaving iPhones and Zabar’s coffee and countless frosty boxes of Omaha Steaks onto a conveyor belt." - LitHub
The many postmortems after The Village Voice closed in 2017, plus the disappearance of alt-weeklies in Philadelphia, Phoenix, Minneapolis, Baltimore, the Bay Area, and St. Louis, made the situation seem bleak. Yet in many other US cities, alt-weeklies thrive — and in some places they’re healthier than the daily papers. - Columbia Journalism Review
Plenty of people still enjoy traditional books and periodicals, and there are even readers for whom the networked age has enabled a kind of hyper-literacy; for them, a smartphone is a library in their pocket. For others, however, the old-fashioned, ideal sort of reading has become almost anachronistic. - The New Yorker
Like most people who work with words for a living, I’ve watched the rise of large-language models with a combination of fascination and horror, and it makes my skin crawl to imagine one of them writing on my behalf. But there is, I confess, something seductive. - The New York Times
The paper mills have various techniques to take advantage of desperate or lazy researchers and to trick publishers: some operate as a marketplace in which extra authorship slots on already--accepted papers are up for grabs. Others take published papers and use AI to tweak text and graphics to escape plagiarism detectors. - Nature
While “Sonnets of Dark Love” was once published in translation in France, it had never appeared in the poet’s homeland or native language because his family kept the collection hidden. In 1983, an anonymous group hoping to force the family’s hand had the sonnets published and sent to 250 influential figures. - The Guardian
The fate of Ellmann and his Joyce biography highlights the disorienting transformation of literature as a field of study. The canons dismantled during the Theory incursion of the 1970s and ’80s introduced a more inclusive world of letters, even as the upheaval left English departments fragmented. - The Atlantic
Our analysis of the dataset shows how there is still a ways to go before women’s writing is valued — awarded, remunerated and read — equally to men’s. - The Conversation
“What does it mean when the majority of the African LGBTQI+ narratives lauded as ‘important,’ ‘urgent,’ or ‘powerful’ are ones where queer black bodies are tortured, shamed and violated? And what kind of reading culture is fostered by a publishing industry that prioritizes those particular narratives?” - LitHub
“Biography alters as we do, as our conceptions of motive evolve, as theories of personality float into fashion or fade away. It offers a snapshot of our working notions of selfhood.” - The New York Times
