The Publishing Society

In a recent article in The Bookseller (2024), it was reported that Bluemoose Books, a relatively small independent publisher, has made a five-figure profit through 2024, an astounding success for a publishing house of its size. A large factor in its success goes to its international rights sales, which topped £100,000, and its sales for books in translation, which passed a staggering £1.8 million. This got me thinking about the culture, or lack thereof, surrounding translated books. While   the majority of people you come across today will know of a k-pop song, or a Bollywood movie, the written novel seems to lack that sense of globalisation – sure, books from other countries do become global phenomena, but rarely are these linked back to the country they came from, and rarely do they come from countries with a distinctly different culture than our own. Of course, the opposite is true for more visual forms of reading like manga, but that is a different story entirely.   As far

Let's start with hello... Hi! Welcome to our first Industry Spotlight (and first ever post on here), we are Derby Uni's Publishing Society. The committee is made up of three parts, myself (Rosie) the president for 2024/25, Adam (secretary) and who will be authoring the rest of these Industry Spotlights, and Rebecca (treasurer) who has the busiest schedule known to man.  You'll get to know us a bit better in the future, but for now here's this week's book news: Continued entwinement with AI publishdrive.com You’re probably sick of hearing it by now; AI continues to be gradually incorporated into industries, with publishing particularly in the spotlight. So far, AI seems to be making the biggest impact in academic publishing, with three such publishers: Wiley, Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press all announcing partnerships with AI companies. One of the biggest questions surrounding AI is that of ethics, with authors worrying about their work being m