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With Consumers Listening To Audiobooks In Record Numbers, Entrepreneurial Authors And Publishers Embrace The 'Audio-First' Trend
When best-selling author Callie Hart wrote the romantic fantasy novel Quicksilver, she published it as an audiobook with Podium Audio, an independent publisher in San Francisco, on October 29, 2024. She then released a hardcover edition with…
Australia's Share-Market Operator Suffers Publishing Outage
SYDNEY—Australia's beleaguered stock exchange operator is investigating an outage that prevented dozens of companies from publishing investor updates at the start of the new trading week. ASX said Monday that about 80 companies had…
ASX publishing outage leads to market chaos and investor angst
Dozens of ASX-listed companies have been unable to publish investor updates, including market-sensitive announcements, after the latest outage in a string of bungles for the sharemarket operator. The announcement outage affected as many as 50…
China's grand plan to dominate global publishing
If current trends hold, China is on track to become the most influential force in global publishing within the next decade. Its rise is powered by domestic growth, a focused expansion strategy, rapid advances in scholarly publishing and the early…
How AI's hit to publisher traffic is quietly rewiring media M&A
“You can't buy a business easily in this state of disruption, and you don't know who's going to be the winner versus the loser,” said Amir Malik, managing director of advisory firm Alvarez and Marsal. There has been movement, though.
Australia's ASX begins publishing some company announcements but outage remains, website shows
Dec 1: The Australian Securities Exchange has started to publish some company announcements on Monday after an earlier outage on its platform, according to the exchange's website. The announcements platform went down just before 9:00 a.m. (2200…
Singaporean author Khir Johairi wins top prize at Gourmand Cookbook Awards, dubbed 'the Oscars of culinary publishing
Khir Johairi's book, The Food Of Singapore Malays: Gastronomic Travels Through The Archipelago, won the Best Of All prize at this year's Gourmand Cookbook Awards. Singaporean author Khir Johairi's highly acclaimed book, The Food Of Singapore…
Digiday+ Research: Where publisher revenue stands with ads, video, content licensing and subscriptions
As senior media reporter Sara Guaglione reported earlier this month, many publishers saw growth in digital advertising revenue while the programmatic ad market continued to struggle. The likes of The New York Times, USA Today and Ziff Davis are…
England's water industry issued £10.5bn in 'green bonds' despite pollution record
Water companies have issued a fifth of the UK's “green bonds” since 2017, despite a consistently poor record of sewage pollution during that time, research has shown. Privately owned water companies in England have together issued…
Unpacking the bullish stock-market forecasts from Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan for 2026
It's December 1, and we're firmly enmeshed in the most exciting part of any given year. No, I'm not referring to the holiday season, even if your local radio stations have all flipped over to Christmas formatting. I'm talking about stock forecast…
2025: AI Transforms Emerging Markets Worldwide
AI's rapid development will change emerging markets. Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona, Spain (Photo by Marc Asensio/NurPhoto via Getty Images) In 2025, artificial intelligence underwent a transformative shift from scientific advancement to…
College Football Playoff bracket prediction: Can Virginia save the ACC's CFP chances?
Welcome to my College Football Playoff projections, which will be published weekly through the end of the season, updated and adjusted after each Saturday's results. Check out the projected field according to Austin Mock's model, which will look…
Marketing's dangerous obsession
The surge in interest around Market Mix Modelling (MMM) says less about the brilliance of the models and more about the uncertainty inside marketing teams. Despite being flooded with data, many clients feel less certain than ever about what's…
This is the worst part of the ASX's latest outage
Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe now Already a subscriber? The Grinch is back to ruin Christmas for ASX Limited chief executive Helen Lofthouse and chair David Clarke. For the second year in a row, the…
Japan defense firms saw sales boom in '24 as Tokyo eyes end of more export curbs
Sales by Japan's top defense firms rose 40% year-on-year in 2024, new research has shown, as Tokyo looks to eliminate some of the remaining barriers on the export of lethal defense equipment as it builds up its defense industrial base. The research…
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