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forbes.com - Elaine Pofeldt - With Consumers Listening To Audiobooks In Record Numbers, Entrepreneurial Authors And Publishers Embrace The 'Audio-First' Trend
With Consumers Listening To Audiobooks In Record Numbers, Entrepreneurial Authors And Publishers Embrace The 'Audio-First' Trend
Forbes

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…

wsj.com - Stuart Condie - Australia's Share-Market Operator Suffers Publishing Outage
Australia's Share-Market Operator Suffers Publishing Outage
Wall Street Journal

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…

afr.com - Matt Bell, Joyce Moullakis, Carrie LaFrenz - ASX publishing outage leads to market chaos and investor angst
ASX publishing outage leads to market chaos and investor angst
Australian Financial Review

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…

asiatimes.com - Zulkifli Musa - China's grand plan to dominate global publishing
China's grand plan to dominate global publishing
Asia Times

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…

digiday.com - Sara Guaglione - How AI's hit to publisher traffic is quietly rewiring media M&A
How AI's hit to publisher traffic is quietly rewiring media M&A
Digiday - The home of modern media and marketing

“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.

channelnewsasia.com - Australia's ASX begins publishing some company announcements but outage remains, website shows
Australia's ASX begins publishing some company announcements but outage remains, website shows
CNA

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…

channelnewsasia.com - Hazeeq Sukri - Singaporean author Khir Johairi wins top prize at Gourmand Cookbook Awards, dubbed 'the Oscars of culinary publishing
Singaporean author Khir Johairi wins top prize at Gourmand Cookbook Awards, dubbed 'the Oscars of culinary publishing
CNA

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.com - Julia Tabisz - Digiday+ Research: Where publisher revenue stands with ads, video, content licensing and subscriptions
Digiday+ Research: Where publisher revenue stands with ads, video, content licensing and subscriptions
Digiday - The home of modern media and marketing

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…

theguardian.com - Jasper Jolly - England's water industry issued £10.5bn in 'green bonds' despite pollution record
England's water industry issued £10.5bn in 'green bonds' despite pollution record
The Guardian

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…

businessinsider.com - Joe Ciolli - Unpacking the bullish stock-market forecasts from Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan for 2026
Unpacking the bullish stock-market forecasts from Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan for 2026
Business Insider

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…

forbes.com - Ariel Cohen - 2025: AI Transforms Emerging Markets Worldwide
2025: AI Transforms Emerging Markets Worldwide
Forbes

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…

nytimes.com - Scott Dochterman - College Football Playoff bracket prediction: Can Virginia save the ACC's CFP chances?
College Football Playoff bracket prediction: Can Virginia save the ACC's CFP chances?
The New York Times

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…

mumbrella.com.au - Hal Crawford - Marketing's dangerous obsession
Marketing's dangerous obsession
Mumbrella

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…

afr.com - James Thomson - This is the worst part of the ASX's latest outage
This is the worst part of the ASX's latest outage
Australian Financial Review

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…

japantimes.co.jp - Jesse Johnson - Japan defense firms saw sales boom in '24 as Tokyo eyes end of more export curbs
Japan defense firms saw sales boom in '24 as Tokyo eyes end of more export curbs
The Japan Times

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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