AGP Executive Report
Last update: 2 minutes agoMajor Deal: Wiley is buying UK publisher Emerald Publishing for £337m, a fresh consolidation move in academic and professional publishing. Rights & Editing Debate: Lee Child calls “offensive-passages” edits from earlier books “slightly Orwellian,” arguing novels are historical artefacts that shouldn’t be rewritten for today. Publishing Careers: Fitzcarraldo Editions hires Jennifer Tighe as operations director, signaling internal scaling. New Work to Watch: Audible is backing Russell Tovey’s debut novel Starlings as an Audible Original, with Andrew Scott and George MacKay starring. Book Industry Support: Malaysia’s PENA launches phase three of its MADANI publishing project, opening submissions across genres with RM1m funding. Author-Reader Process: Hay Festival’s Nibbies Salon spotlights how authors and editors collaborate, with Saara El-Arifi and Natasha Bardon. Book-to-Stage/Screen Buzz: The Karate Kid – The Musical announces UK tour casting, with book by Robert Mark Kamen. Tech & Content: Inkitt expands into AI-native action/sci-fi microdrama streaming app Inkitt Ironblood.
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