Four Scenarios for Scholarly Publishing and AI
Four scenarios for scholarly publishing and AI, exploring what happens when AI changes both how knowledge is produced and how it is discovered—and what the enduring role of a publisher might be.
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I’m catching up after three intense days at London Book Fair. That intensity has been mirrored in the AI world, with a slew of copyright ...
London Book Fair 2026 Reflections
Eighteen observations from three days at London Book Fair 2026, including procedural debt, AI adoption maturity, audio publishing, discoverability, and the value of unscheduled conversations.
Anthropic's Employment Research
A close reading of Anthropic's labour market research: why high task exposure does not mean job replacement, and why the more interesting story may be how work reconfigures rather than disappears.
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It has been a week in which AI moved decisively out of product demos and into politics, newsrooms, courts, and war. Across very different...
Accelerating the Right Things
On the risk of using AI to accelerate the wrong things, and why the collapse in the cost of building makes judgement, not execution, the scarce resource.
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A slightly shorter—and later—newsletter than normal, as I’ve been on the road this week (six webinars and courses in four days—welcome to...
Trade Publishing as a Data Business
Trade publishers generate valuable forward signals—submission patterns, acquisition trends, category momentum—that they have not yet treated as products. Could they follow the Washington Post's playbook?