Publishing

To sell Homer’s Odyssey, rival book publishers get creative to attract readers to their editions

Copies of several translations of Homer’s Odyssey in New York, July 15, 2026. The market for the epic poem is as crowded as a certain Ithacan palace, and publishers have had to get crafty to attract readers to their editions.

Vietnam arrests publishers of book on Communist Party founder

Field Notes from Tokyo

Japan’s creative fight to keep bookstores from turning their last page

Magmabooks, which opened at the Toranomon Hills complex in April 2025, aims to bring visitors on a journey of self-discovery through books that answer philosophy questions such as (left) “What is a country? What is democracy?”.

‘AI simply can’t replicate it’: Japan embraces the zine trend

Newspapers being transported by machinery at the Kyoto Shimbun factory in Kumiyama, Kyoto prefecture, on March 19.

Viewpoint: Why The Devil Wears Prada 2 will not be the cult fashion film that the first was

Anne Hathaway (left) and Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada 2.

Major publishers sue Meta for copyright infringement over AI training

The publishers alleged that Meta misused their books and journal articles to train its artificial intelligence model Llama.

France's Macron sympathises with authors who quit Bollore-owned publisher

French President Emmanuel Macron poses before a working lunch of bilateral talks with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer ahead of the multinational virtual summit at the Elysee Presidential Palace, in Paris, France, on April 17, 2026. Tom Nicholson/Pool via REUTERS

In Good Company

How Dow Jones thrives when news is seen as just another commodity

The Wall Street Journal publisher and Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour in an interview with the Straits Times on March 31.

News website Rice Media acquired by social media agency

Rice Media's office in Chinatown. It announced in a statement that it had been acquired by local social media content agency Hustle Studios.

Horror novel Shy Girl cancelled by publisher Hachette over suspected AI use

The cover of the self-published edition of Shy Girl by Mia Ballard.

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