Hunting Down Information

In Publishing News this week, Frankfurt Bookfair is on. This Bookfair, the largest in the western hemisphere, dominates the publishing calendar. Publishing Perspectives has a run down on the issues talked about on day one of the fair. Publishers Weekly reports that…
https://www.maureencrisp.com/2025/10/hunting-down-information.html

#jamesscottbell #janicehardy #KMWeiland #KathleenSchmidt #pennysansevieri

Trying Not To Be Political

In Publishing News this week, This week the Book Awards for Children and Young Adults in New Zealand happened. I always try to go because I’ve been a past judge. It’s a great time to catch up with colleagues, to meet and celebrate the winners and the new writers coming up.
https://www.maureencrisp.com/2025/08/trying-not-to-be-political.html

#kathleenMcCleary #KathleenSchmidt #KimberlyGrabas #LindaDunn #MattyDalrymple
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Feeling Besieged?

Just after I published last week’s roundup I read the article from Publishers Weekly about the US Presidents comments on copyright. (Substack subscriber readers got the news early.) Last month the UK voted down a transparency law that would have required tech companies to compensate owners of…
https://www.maureencrisp.com/2025/07/feeling-besieged.html

#AIandcopyrightlaws #dictation #KMWeiland #KathleenSchmidt #rachelthompson
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Can You Trust The Source?

In Publishing News this week, I’m a day late this week in publishing the blog. As I was putting it together, I heard that Stephen Colbert’s show is being axed. Many in the media are dismayed with the defunding of public journalism PBS and NPR this week. The Colbert show axing coming on the heels…
https://www.maureencrisp.com/2025/07/can-you-trust-source.html

#jamesscottbell #joannapenn #KMWeiland #KathleenSchmidt #NotebookLM
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Proclaiming Our Intentions

In Publishing News this week. After nine years in operation and beginning the modern serial publishing format Radish has announced they are closing their doors at the end of the year. Commentators have been noting the quiet demise of serial format sites lately. Many have linked it…
https://www.maureencrisp.com/2025/07/proclaiming-our-intentions.html

#allianceofIndependentauthors #Bologna #KMWeiland #KathleenSchmidt #reedsy
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Fishhooks and Bouquets

In Publishing News this week. In headlines around the world, Taylor Swift bought back her original master recordings of her first six albums. Why have I put this news in my weekly blog? It all has to do with copyright and the value of that copyright. If you read the saga which starts when…
https://www.maureencrisp.com/2025/06/fishhooks-and-bouquets.html

#AI #ChelleHonniniker #GabrielePereira #KathleenSchmidt #nzchildrensbookawards
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The Courage To Be Creative

In Publishing News this week, A new press has launched reports The Guardian. Conduit books seek to only publish books by men as they are being “overlooked with the perception that the male voice is problematic.” The founder hopes the press will help to change the narrative that boys and men…
https://www.maureencrisp.com/2025/05/the-courage-to-be-creative.html

#DonaldMaass #Emilyenger #joannapenn #KMWeiland #KathleenSchmidt
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Can We Get Off The Roller Coaster?

In Publishing News this week, It’s been a tricky old week if you have been watching the tariff brinkmanship going on and wondering what this will do to the global economy. Closer to home writers and publishers are wondering what it will mean for the book…
https://www.maureencrisp.com/2025/04/can-we-get-off-roller-coaster.html

#CassieMannsMurray #chuckwendig #KathleenSchmidt #LiteraryEstates #SandraBeckwith
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