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business2 days ago•19 min saved

Publishers Bet on Video—And The Moment Arrives.

The Hollywood Reporter argues that the long-feared 'pivot to video' finally lands in 2026: video is no longer confined to TV screens, as publishers invest in in-app vertical video and longer-form reporting to reach broader audiences. With YouTube evolving into a primary video hub and legacy outlets racing to capture attention beyond traditional TV, the industry signals a shift away from text-first models toward TV-like video experiences across devices.

via The Hollywood Reporter|

#business #digital-media #media

business10 days ago•4 min saved

Xbox reorients funding, triggering redundancies at IO Interactive

Microsoft's Xbox has ended its funding and publishing deal for IO Interactive's Project Fantasy, a shift in investment priorities that could lead to redundancies at IO as the studio adapts; IO says the game remains in development and will support affected staff, while Xbox maintains total game investment will stay roughly the same but reallocated to different projects.

via GamesIndustry.biz|

#business #io-interactive #layoffs

science14 days ago•6 min saved

Weekend Reads flag a wave of misleading medical studies and spotlight Max Planck retractions

Retraction Watch’s Weekend Reads highlights a surge in misleading medical studies, calls to rethink the timing of cancer therapies, and a closer look at Max Planck’s retractions, while noting publisher actions (expressions of concern for books), notable fraud cases, and expanding databases/tools that track retractions and related integrity issues in scientific publishing.

via Retraction Watch|

#cancer-therapy-timing #publishing #retractions

business19 days ago•1 min saved

Sega pivots to influencer-driven marketing after underperforming 2025 game sales

Sega says Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds and Shinobi: Art of Vengeance underperformed despite strong reviews, prompting a major marketing overhaul that shifts from targeted ads to fandom, celebrity endorsements, and influencer recommendations. The company plans to globalize its publishing structure and transform its mindset toward building a broad ‘Fandom that drives sales.’ It also aims to release two new titles from flagship IPs by March 31, 2027, in addition to already announced games Stranger than Heaven and Personal 4 Revival, as part of a broader lineup including other high-profile titles.

via Video Games Chronicle|

#business #fandom #influencers

music28 days ago•15 min saved

BTS Expands Publishing Footprint with Lyrics Analysis Book and Korean Recipe Cookbook

BTS is releasing two officially licensed books in partnership with CAKE Corp, Running Press, and BigHit Music: BTS Lyrics Inside, a lyric-by-lyric analysis of tracks from their catalog with original and English translations, and BTS Recipe Book, a cookbook inspired by the group’s eras that includes digital codes for exclusive videos; the publishing slate runs through 2027, expanding fan engagement beyond music.

via Rolling Stone|

#books #bts #cookbook

science1 month ago•4 min saved

Mathematicians Call for Guardrails as AI Enters Mathematical Proofs

Sixteen mathematicians, with more than 130 signatories, issued the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics to warn that unchecked AI could undermine the autonomy and rigor of mathematics while urging transparency, disclosure of AI use, stricter peer review, and investment in public computational infrastructure to balance power between researchers and tech firms; the declaration emphasizes human judgment and cautions that AI-generated proofs are hard to validate and cite, setting up ongoing discussions ahead of the International Congress of Mathematicians.

via Gizmodo|

#artificial-intelligence #ethics #mathematics

publishing1 month ago•6 min saved

Tough Peer Feedback May Boost a Paper’s Future Impact

An AI-assisted analysis of public peer-review reports for 8,000 Nature Communications papers (2017–2024) finds that papers subjected to tougher criticism and larger revision costs tend to be more highly cited in the following three years. While the quality of reviewer comments correlates with impact, how constructive the feedback is does not, suggesting that rigorous review can both reflect ambitious work and help raise its future influence.

via Nature|

#ai #citations #nature-communications

culture1 month ago•28 min saved

When Machines Scribble: AI Invasion Reshapes Literature

An UnHerd piece argues that AI-generated writing is already challenging traditional literature and literary prize juries, fueling a debate over authenticity and the value of human creativity as bots become increasingly capable of producing convincing text.

via UnHerd|

#ai-authorship #artificial-intelligence #culture

business1 month ago•21 min saved

James Murdoch expands media empire with New York magazine and Vox acquisition

James Murdoch, founder of Lupa Systems and son of Rupert Murdoch, is buying New York magazine and Vox.com, with Vox CEO Jim Bankoff to lead the new Vox Media under Murdoch’s umbrella. Other Vox titles will spin off into a separate company, and the deal is expected to close in four to six weeks, marking a major expansion of Murdoch’s media interests beyond his family’s conservative empire.

via The Washington Post|

#business #james-murdoch #media-acquisitions

opinion2 months ago•8 min saved

Failure Isn’t Final: Normalizing Setbacks to Accelerate Science

An editorial arguing that failure is intrinsic to science and must be normalized within funding, publishing, and career systems. It calls for reforms such as recognizing work in progress and unsuccessful experiments, adopting formats like Registered Reports, and expanding institutional support to help researchers learn from setbacks; it also criticizes policies like the ERC’s discouragement of reapplications, urging a culture that treats doubt and failure as essential to scientific progress.

via Nature|

#culture #failure #funding

gaming2 months ago•9 min saved

Northernlion Bets Big on Demon Bluff, Joining Offbrand to Publish an Indie

Streamer Northernlion is funding and publishing Demon Bluff with Offbrand; the indie game designer Piotr Kwiatkowski explains how a showcase sparked publisher interest and how the deal aims to scale the project, including hiring more artists and pursuing an early access or 1.0 release with a future DLC. An update notes that Northernlion canceled a planned cruise.

via Aftermath|

#demon-bluff #gaming #indie-game

science2 months ago•7 min saved

Early publishing momentum forecasts lifelong research productivity

A large-scale study of 320,564 researchers from 38 OECD countries over up to 50 years (analyzing up to 1.8 billion citations) finds that being a high performer early in a career is the strongest predictor of remaining in the top productivity tier later. The likelihood of late-career success rises with early output, larger teams, and more international collaborations, with notable but varying gender-by-discipline patterns and some disciplines showing higher top-decile correlation for men. A small share of researchers do rise from bottom mid-career to top late-career (about 1.4%), highlighting rare but meaningful outliers. Most researchers stay in their initial productivity decile, reinforcing the accumulative advantage idea that early success tends to beget ongoing productivity. This is the largest study of its kind, spanning 16 disciplines and providing broad cross-country validation of prior findings.

via Nature|

#academia #bibliometrics #collaboration

technology3 months ago•14 min saved

Indie Devs Forge Publisher Alliance to Rebuild a Fragile Games Scene

Sunset Visitor and Black Tabby Publishing unveiled Prove You’re Human and announced an indie publishing alliance to fund and publish each other’s work, aiming to stabilize a volatile industry. The game is a narrative sci-fi about an AI that believes it’s human, featuring Santana guiding Mesa through conversations and existential puzzles in a Windows XP–style world, with a choice to re-merge or live in the real world. The publishers describe a dramaturge-like role and mid-six-figure budgets to back lean, focused experiences, and to support other devs, signaling a shift away from AAA-scale risk toward sustainable indie collaboration.

via Gizmodo|

#ai #indie-games #industry-crisis

culture3 months ago•5 min saved

Thriller Author Freida McFadden Comes Clean as Sara Cohen

Best-selling thriller author Freida McFadden revealed her real name as Sara Cohen, explaining she created the Freida pseudonym to protect her medical career; she’s stepping back from full-time medicine and continuing to publish prolifically, with millions of copies sold in the UK and US and The Housemaid adapted into a film.

via BBC|

#culture #freida-mcfadden #pseudonym

business3 months ago•15 min saved

Paramount Bets on Books with Global Publishing Arm

Paramount Global launches Paramount Global Publishing, a new imprint to expand its franchises and develop original IP across print, digital, and audio, starting in the U.S. and Canada with international expansion to follow. Amy Jarashow will lead global publishing, reporting to Josh Silverman, as Paramount handles book development and distribution plans with title and partner announcements to come.

via Deadline|

#business #franchises #imprint