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SEC Publishes Updated Market Statistics, Highlighting Increase in IPOs and Proceeds Raised
The Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA) published updated statistics and data visualizations covering key segments of the U.S. capital markets, including a notable increase in the number of initial…
San Antonio writers launch new kind of publishing house
A new publishing house based in San Antonio is taking a unique approach to give lesser-known authors a platform for success. Why it matters: Major publishers often focus limited resources on big-name writers, leaving others to face fewer options to…
Opinion: A publisher, a profile and blurred lines in Missouri politics
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Google Search Decline Steepened To 40% YoY For Publishers
Chartbeat reports a 40.2% year-over-year decline for Google Search across its publisher network from July 2025 to July 2026, in the analytics company's 2026 Publisher Playbook. Its year-over-year figure for the year before was a 21.9% decline. The…
Partisan Music Expands Publishing Arm With OTM Acquisition
Partisan Music has acquired Firebird's shares of OTM Music, which will now merge with the independent record label. OTM will incorporate the team and roster of Left Music, the publishing company Partisan acquired in 2022, creating an independent…
Salt Publishing on track for strongest sales in a decade as strategy shift 'pays off
Christopher Hamilton-Emery, director of Salt Publishing Salt Publishing has reported an 86% rise in sales for the first half of 2026 compared to 2025, with growth attributed to “the calibre of writers now joining the list, a shift towards…
Western Publishing Houses Banned Translations of Russian Classics
Whereas in 2020-2021 two new translations of 'Anna Karenina' were published by Yale and Columbia University presses, a couple of years later, professional translators of Russian literature into English were left with virtually no work, he noted…
Media Briefing: Publishers question whether personalization actually pays off
Execs spoke under Chatham House rules, so Digiday could share what was said while maintaining executives' anonymity. One publishing exec said they were about to test individually-personalized, local, daily briefings for 20% of their registered…
Former Portsmouth teacher publishes book, celebrates release in Portsmouth
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio — A local author celebrated the release of her latest book Friday, Sept. 18, with an event at the Marting's Building in downtown Portsmouth. Rossanna Cwikla officially released “Ensnared: No Way Out,” a…
Piers Morgan Is Threatening to Sue Earl Spencer, Saying the Diana Book Blames Him for Photos Published Two Years Before He Ran the Paper
Books connect our company's digital roots with our love of traditional book publishing. Our books are designed as beloved art pieces. We publish work we love. On his show Uncensored, Piers Morgan says Earl Spencer's new memoir “Swan Song:…
UNIC takes part in international study on bat evolution, biology, published in 'Nature'
The University of Nicosia is participating in the largest study to date combining bat genomes and fossils, published today in the scientific journal Nature. The author team includes Dr Myrtani Pieri, Associate Professor in the Department of Life…
OpenAI Published the Rules for How It Gets Evaluated - and Wrote Them Itself
OpenAI has effectively moved to become the architect of its own oversight. By publishing its Priorities and principles for effective third party assessments on September 22, 2026, the company has unilaterally defined the terms, scope, and…
Can prediction markets create the future they predict?
Prediction market platforms allow people to bet on real-world events like politics, culture, economics, war, and sports. Their defining feature is the buying and selling of contracts. They operate on a peer-to-peer model in which participants buy…
As Xbox hands the next Halo game over to Activision, fans are worried about this year's Halo Fest and a potential lore reboot from the Call of Duty publisher
We're now living in a timeline that would have been impossible to comprehend for a grunt-squashing teen in 2007: Activision is making the next Halo game. And, now, fans have questions about the change. Is this year's Halo Fest still happening…
UPPC targets international market
Uganda Printing and Publishing Corporation (UPPC) is looking beyond its traditional government printing business after securing an international quality-management certification that its management says could help it compete for more work in Uganda…
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