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Two publishing announcements landed on November 10, a day apart in subject and close in method. One puts a museum’s collection between hard covers. The other turns a novel into a classroom program. Both are books built for a buyer other than the casual reader in a shop. A museum …
The Mohammed Bin Rashid Library holds the third Dubai International Library and Publishing Summit on November 16 and 17, in its own building on the …
For a few years the headless CMS was the grown-up choice for a serious publisher. Keep the words and images in one structured store. Send them out by …
An ISBN looks like a technical detail, thirteen digits above a barcode on the back cover. For an independent publisher it’s a business decision. Whose …
Thierry Ehrmann, the founder of Artprice, has entered the argument over AI and writing with a book and a claim about authorship. In a statement issued …
When The Godfather opened on March 24, 1972, it looked like a film about old men. Patriarchs, consiglieri, capos who had spent decades learning whom …
In Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather (1972), small details often say more than long conversations. A glance, a closed door, an unfinished sentence, …
Short answer: yes. Automattic still employs thousands of people, still owns WordPress.com, Tumblr, WooCommerce, Pocket Casts and Beeper, and still …
I’m on the side of privacy. I think data brokers are a menace, and when Ireland fined Meta €1.2 billion in 2023 I didn’t lose a minute’s sleep. If …
Everything in this picture came out of the same hill. The vines grow in a thin skin of clay over limestone, the houses are cut from that limestone, …
