The Daily of the University of Washington

Publishing a book is hard — let’s make it easier

If you want to be traditionally published, you need a literary agent. There are few exceptions to this: mainly, you submit ...
Publishers Weekly

AI Is About to Turn Book Publishing Upside-Down

The latest generation of AI is a game changer. Not incremental change—something gentle, something gradual: this AI changes everything, fast. Scary fast. I believe that every function in trade book ...
CNET

Publishing start-up captures Adobe veteran

Adobe co-founder and Chairman John Warnock has joined the board of directors of online research start-up Ebrary, the company said Monday. Ebrary, which lets people research and read articles and books ...
Wall Street Journal

Madefire Closes $5.2M Series A for Multimedia Book-Publishing Software

Madefire Inc. has closed a $5.2 million Series A round as it forges more partnerships with publishers to use its multimedia book-publishing software. True Ventures led the round, joined by Anthem ...
The New York Times

‘A Lot of Us Are Gone’: How the Push to Diversify Publishing Fell Short

Lisa Lucas was among the big hires meant to shake up the industry. Her departure, alongside other prominent Black editors and executives, has led some to question publishers’ pledge to diversify. By ...
The New York Times

Publishing Pledged to Diversify. Change Has Been Slow.

A new survey shows that more people of color are working in the book business, but the industry remains overwhelmingly white. By Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth A. Harris More than three years after ...
The Atlantic

Taylor Swift Is a Perfect Example of How Publishing Is Changing

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The day after Swift announced her book, David Shelley, the CEO of Hachette, one of the “Big Five” book publishers, said something at the Frankfurt Book Fair that ...