AGP Executive Report
Last update: 4 hours agoPrint Industry: Canada’s Supremex plans to cut 60 jobs and consolidate facilities, citing a projected C$10–12 million annual hit to operating earnings from tariffs. AI and Rights: A Japanese book wholesaler has admitted selling books to Anthropic, renewing questions about the use of copyrighted works in AI training. In the UK, Books By People’s “human-authored” certification has been registered by the Intellectual Property Office, a first for the country. Audiobooks: Spotify is expanding its audiobook service to more than 180 markets, while Bookshop.org says its new audiobook offering lets independent bookshops earn the full profit on sales for the first time. Market Trends: UK book revenue rose 1.5%, with fiction driving international growth, even as the Frankfurt Book Fair faced reports of weak sales and falling literacy. Santo Domingo’s book fair, by contrast, drew more than 714,000 visitors and topped RD$97 million in sales. Publishing Business: A new estimate puts the biggest self-publishing players at a scale comparable to the largest consumer publishers.
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