Kindle Fury: Amazon to end support for older Kindles
10 April 2026 (BBC)
While the company has said the change would only affect 3% of current users, “this could amount to 2 million devices rendered obsolete according to some estimates, potentially generating over 624 tons of e-waste”.
Google Play Ebook Apps Still Lack Basic Functions
10 April 2026 (Android Police)
Google Play Books has a serious problem, and Google doesn’t have the answer. They’re too busy trying to insert AI into the ebook reading experience.
31% of Americans read an ebook last year
9 April 2026 (Pew Research)
The overall share of Americans who have read a book in the past year has remained fairly stable since we first asked this question in 2011. Digital and audiobooks … have become more widely used. About three-in-ten adults (31%) now report reading an e-book in the past year, up from 17% in 2011. Audiobooks have seen similar growth, with use of this format more than doubling in the same period.
Audible to open ‘Bookstore without books’ in New York
9 April 2026 (Kazinform)
The venue will include seven dedicated listening areas where visitors can sit and enjoy the recordings using high performance headphones from Sony and immersive Dolby Atmos sound technology. The Audible Story House will operate throughout May.
The Hit Erotica Writers Outwitting Nigeria’s Religious Censors
9 April 2026 (New York Times)
In a region that operates under a dual legal system, where Shariah law exists alongside secular courts to strictly regulate public morality, steamier stories are deemed immoral. Some books have been publicly burned by zealous officials. Now, a new generation of writers is publishing far more explicit content — and serializing it on WhatsApp, where it is out of reach of religious and government censors who are still focused on paper books.
Why the Easiest Time in History to Create Is Also the Best Time to Be a Publisher
9 April 2026 (The New Publishing Standard
If anyone can now produce a professional-quality book, what exactly are publishers for? It is not an unreasonable question.
Southeast Europe’s Leading Audiobook, Ebook Platform, Secures Funds for Expansion
8 April 2026 (Publishing Perspectives)
Romania’s Voxa, which was launched in November 2021 by local entrepreneurs Marin and Dan Vidrașcu, is looking to grow across the continent.
EBSCO is Ditching Adobe’s Ebook Reader for Thorium Reader
8 April 2026 (EBSCO)
As of Tuesday 14th April 2026, users who download whole EBSCO e-books for offline reading will need to download Thorium Reader instead of Adobe Digital Editions. EBSCO are switching to the free Thorium Reader app as it is compatible with screen readers and adheres to modern accessibility standards.
W. W. Norton Gets Accessibility Certification
7 April 2026 (The Globe and Mail)
Benetech, a global nonprofit focused on providing equitable opportunities for all learners, awards GCA certification to publishers who demonstrate consistent success in producing accessible EPUBs, which are the industry-standard files for ebook content.
Bangladesh: Five Audiobook Platforms, and Counting
7 April 2026 (Publishing Perspectives)
According to Kommersant, Russia’s digital book market—covering e-books and audiobooks—grew 25% in revenue in 2025 to RUB 23.6 billion ($297 million), while unit sales rose 45% year over year.
Russia’s Audiobook Market Goes Full Streaming
7 April 2026 (Publishing Perspectives)
According to Kommersant, Russia’s digital book market—covering e-books and audiobooks—grew 25% in revenue in 2025 to RUB 23.6 billion ($297 million), while unit sales rose 45% year over year.
Japanese government passes bill to make digital textbooks official
7 April 2026 (Japan Times)
Japan is expected to use digital textbooks, which are currently treated as supplementary learning materials, as official textbooks from as early as fiscal 2030 after government screenings in fiscal 2028 — making them eligible for free distribution in elementary and junior high schools.
Manta Expands into Manga Market with Kodansha Partnership
7 April 2026 (The New Publishing Standard)
Platform Evolution: From Webcomics to All-in-One Story Hub. Manta’s parent company RIDI Corporation, South Korea’s first content unicorn, brings substantial IP advantages through its position as the nation’s leading webnovel publisher – providing Manta with a pipeline of proven stories for adaptation.
Amazon is now flagging which Kindle Books are DRM-Free
6 April 2026 (The Good E-Reader)
There don’t seem to be many DRM-Free Kindle Books on the platform, and most of them are from TOR and Baen Publishing. Many Tor original novellas and short stories are DRM-free.
Where to Buy eBooks: A Complete Guide for Modern Readers
5 April 2026 (Programming Insider)
Best Platforms to Buy eBooks. There are many platforms available, but choosing the right one depends on your needs—whether it’s affordability, variety, or academic content.
Tolino Media Expands into Audiobooks for Self-Publishers
3 April 2026 (The New Publishing Standard
German self-publishing platform Tolino Media has launched audiobook distribution services, enabling independent authors to publish audio titles alongside their existing e-book and print offerings. For self-publishers, the move eliminates a key barrier to audio market entry – complex multi-platform distribution – while maintaining production autonomy.
What Harlequin’s AI Microdrama Deal Is Really About
3 April 2026 (The New Publishing Standard)
The French translation pivot, the line closure, and now the Dashverse and Toonstar deals, are all consistent with a corporate direction that treats AI not as a threat to manage but as infrastructure to deploy. As March concluded, Harlequin announced a multi-year agreement with Dashverse, an AI-native entertainment company, to co-produce 40 animated microdramas based on its romance titles.
New smart glasses: read ebooks and play chess
3 April 2026 (The New Publishing Standard)
The latest smart glasses from Even Labs help you by automatically transcribing live conversations or providing verbal cues that float in front of your eyes, without distracting you. And it’s supposedly getting better with a range of apps now available for these glasses.
A device that transcribes and translates audiobooks while you listen
3 April 2026 (dev.ua)
In addition to the main idea, the author of the application believes that it “can be useful for people who have hearing problems. The read-along function also helps to better focus on the content.” The Libly application reads in 30 languages. It also allows you to translate the decoded text into over 70 languages.
March 2026
WTO moratorium against tarrifs on ebooks is up for review
28 March 2026 (US News)
The moratorium covers cross-border transmissions such as software downloads, e-books, music and movie streaming and video games. Some developing nations, including India which has long opposed the moratorium, contend its extension would deprive them of tariff revenue to fund infrastructure and close the digital divide. More than 200 global business organisations signed a joint statement calling for an extension of the moratorium.
Pearson’s shift to digital underpins solid growth
28 March 2026 (Ad Hoc News)
Annual revenue reached approximately $4.82 billion, with net income of $604.19 million, underscoring operational efficiency. Gross profit stood at $2.48 billion, highlighting strong margins in core segments. The shift toward digital products, including e-textbooks and online platforms, now constitutes a growing portion of sales, reducing reliance on physical books.
US Supreme Court’s Blow to Publishers’ Fight Against AI
27 March 2026 (Publishers Weekly)
The industry cannot blame an ISP for what their subscribers do online.
PocketBook has released its latest Onyx Boox alternative in the US
27 March 2026 (Notebook Check)
Priced to undercut Onyx Boox’s equivalent 10.3-inch E Ink tablets, the PocketBook InkPad One also includes a stylus for note-taking purposes.
Livres Hebdo Secures NetGalley France Licence in Strategic Digital Push
27 March 2026 (The New Publishing Standard)
NetGalley, originally developed by Firebrand Technologies in 2008 and now owned by Japan’s Media Do International (following its 2021 acquisition), operates across five international markets including the US, UK, Germany, and Japan.
Are E-ink Devices Actually Better For Your Eyes Than Tablets?
27 March 2026 (BGR)
For light reading, an e-reader is still a better option than a tablet. Follow the 20/20/20 rule: Stop reading. Look at something 20 feet away from you for 20 seconds, then resume. Repeat this process every 20 minutes.
Bookshop.org is launching its own branded device
26 March 2026 (Good E-Reader)
Bookshop.org has been working on getting a dedicated e-reader off the ground for a couple of years now. The upcoming gadget, called the “Color E-Reader”, will feature the latest, yet-to-be-released e-ink display.
Illinois goes after ebook library suppliers
26 March 2026 (25NewsNow)
Illinois’ Digital Library Protection Act would restrict publishers from making agreements to distribute electronic materials like e-books and audiobooks if the agreement would keep the library from “customary operational functions” or “performing customary lending functions.”
Music Labels seek $300M from pirate library Anna’s Archive
26 March 2026 (Ars Technica)
Plaintiffs said the DMCA damages of $2,500 would exceed $7 billion if applied to all 2.8 million released music files. Of course, Anna’s Archive isn’t likely to pay the proposed financial penalty or delete the Spotify data, just as it was never likely to comply with a January 2026 court order in a different lawsuit.
GlobalComix Secures $13M and Acquires INKR
25 March 2026 (The New Publishing Standard)
The company has acquired Singapore-founded INKR, an AI-powered manga platform boasting over 200,000 volumes of Japanese, Chinese and Korean content.
Utah imposes a tax on ebooks and audiobooks deemed “harmful to minors”
23 March 2026 (VitalLaw)
Effective October 1, 2026, Utah will impose an excise tax on commercial entities that publish digital content deemed to be “harmful to minors”, and allocate tax revenue for mental health programs and enforcement of age verification.
John Wiley’s Profitability Uptick and AI Content Partnership
15 March 2026 (Simply Wall St)
In early March 2026, John Wiley & Sons reported improved third-quarter profitability and completed two share repurchase tranches. The combination of higher earnings, ongoing buybacks, and deeper integration into AI-powered clinical workflows highlights how Wiley is monetizing its content across traditional publishing and emerging healthcare technology channels.
Audible partners with British Airways
20 March 2026 (Press Release)
British Airways is collaborating with Audible, a leading creator and provider of premium audio storytelling, to bring more than 250 hours of podcasts and audiobooks to the skies.
ONIX metadata standard update focuses on internationalisation
23 March 2026 (Publishing Perspectives)
The revision introduces four changes: clearer attribution of reviews and descriptive content; added contextual detail about people or entities featured in a book; adjustments to publisher and imprint name order to improve multilingual sorting; and support for transliteration across different writing systems.
Chicken Soup for the Soul Sues AI Firms for Copyright Infringement
20 March 2026 (Publishers Weekly)
Chicken Soup for the Soul is suing tech companies OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI, Perplexity, Apple, and Nvidia for copyright infringement. The suit, filed March 17 in the Northern District of California, alleges that hundreds of its copyrighted works were ingested without authorization or compensation to train large language models.
Best E-Readers for Night Reading: Top Warm Light Picks
20 March 2026 (gagadget.com)
Night reading used to mean choosing between a dim lamp and blasting your partner awake with overhead light. Front-lit e-readers solved the lamp problem years ago, but the early warm-light implementations were uneven – orange at the corners, white in the center, and sliders that topped out at a pale amber that barely qualified as warm. That gap has closed.
AI Is Writing Fiction. Publishers Are Unprepared
19 March 2026 (New York Times)
Hachette’s Shy Girl creares a stir: The Times analyzed passages from the novel using several A.I. detection tools and found recurring patterns characteristic of A.I. generated text, like gaps in logic, excessive use of melodramatic adjectives and an overreliance on the rule of three…
Why you should avoid Audible’s new Standard subscription at all costs
14 March 2026 (Android Police)
A new, cheaper Audible subscription must be great, right? Unfortunately not. Audible’s new Standard tier may make audiobooks cheaper than ever, but it’s terrible value. The catch is you need to stay subscribed to listen to your books. Want to listen to the audiobook you just purchased? Make sure you keep giving us money, because we don’t want you to pay us once for this title, we want you to pay us for it forever.
Spotify Audiobooks growing in the United Kingdom
14 March 2026 (Good E-Reader)
The interest in audiobooks is on the rise, especially among younger audiences. In the UK, over half (52%) of audiobook listeners are under 35, illustrating Spotify’s success in reaching a new demographic. “When we reduce friction between formats, we make it easier to stay immersed and finish more books.”
Zebralution merges with Bookwire
12 March 2026 (Music Business Worldwide)
Frankfurt-based Bookwire announced Monday that it had acquired 100% of Zebralution‘s shares, including subsidiaries Open Publishing GmbH and EMS GmbH, from German music rights collecting society GEMA, following clearance from the German Federal Cartel Office. The deal arrives less than two months after GEMA sold Berlin-based digital distributor Zebralution to New York-based private equity firm Insight Holdings Group.
What if none of this matters?
12 March 2026 (The Future of Publishing)
Thad McIlroy’s reflections on the 55th London Book Fair: “They’re dashing about so quickly because outside the hall their AI overlords hover, speaking softly, not shouting. If you stop for a moment, and listen carefully, you can just make out their words, “Books are a thing of the past,” they whisper. “Certainly they were useful in their time…”
Audible will launch in 11 new international marketplaces
11 March 2026 (Good E-Reader)
This includes Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, Ireland, Singapore, South Africa, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. Audible will roll out these localized user experiences through a strategic collaboration with Amazon.
Ed tech under pressure as US lawmakers target student screen time
11 March 2026 (Times of India)
Legislators in 16 US states have introduced bills this year that would limit education technology in schools. Some proposals seek to ban school-issued laptops and email accounts for preschool and elementary school students. Others aim to cap the amount of time older students can spend on screens during the school day.
Amazon Locking DRM on Some Older Kindles Now
10 March 2026 (The Ebook Reader)
If you have an older Kindle running software version 5.16.2.1.1 you’re probably going to run into problems removing the DRM from ebooks downloaded to it. Usually when something like this happens it’s because of a software update, but that software version dates back to August 2023 so Amazon has apparently found a new way to change the DRM that’s being used on older Kindles without updating the software.
Amazon Breaking DRM Removal on Some Older Kindles Now
10 March 2026 (The Ebook Reader)
If you have an older Kindle running software version 5.16.2.1.1 you’re probably going to run into problems removing the DRM from ebooks downloaded to it. Usually when something like this happens it’s because of a software update, but that software version dates back to August 2023 so Amazon has apparently found a new way to change the DRM that’s being used on older Kindles without updating the software.
Google integrates NotebookLM with ebooks
10 March 2026 (Android Police)
… by adding support for EPUB files as sources. You can now directly upload EPUB files to NotebookLM. Then, you can turn them into Video or Audio Overviews, generate Slide decks, or get an overview of their content — all in just a few taps. NotebookLM is a free, AI-powered research and note-taking assistant from Google. It is designed to boost productivity by allowing users to interact with their own data.
Fans skeptical of potential AI translation usage in manga
9 March 2026 (Comics Beat)
In response to public outcry against the use of AI in its translations, Seven Seas Entertainment publicly posted on X that it “remains committed to human translators.” Comments exploded at the manga publisher’s recent acquisition by Japanese eBook distributor, Media Do, with one user stating, “you don’t get to decide anymore.”
New App required to download e-books from ProQuest Ebook Central
9 March 2026 (Manchester University)
Ebook Central Reader App will replace Adobe Digital Editions as the mechanism to use to download whole e-books from ProQuest Ebook Central for offline reading.
February 2026
Kodansha Partners with Massive Gaming Platform ROBLOX
27 February 2026 (ITmedia Via Publishing Perspectives)
Roblox is the world’s largest online platform where users can create and publish games and have others play them. Kodansha is partnering with Roblox to enable creators to officially build games based on popular manga franchises, including Blue Lock, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, and Attack on Titan.
The Boox Palma 2 Pro is the Kindle killer
23 February 2026 (makeuseof.com)
It fits a full e-reader into a smartphone form that’s compact and fits into your pocket. The new model is only 175 grams, making it effortless to hold for long reading sessions or slip into a bag for reading on the go.
Ingram Launches New Digital Catalog, DRC, and Ordering Platform
23 February 2026 (Publishers Weekly)
The platform is intended as a cost-effective competitor to Above the Treeline’s Edelweiss and NetGalley.
If you own the Kindle ebook, you can get the Audible version at a discount
23 February 2026 (Gadget Guy)
“Immersion reading” is being added to the Audible app, joining the existing functionality on Kindle devices. Enabled via a ‘Read & Listen’ tab within the app, it highlights the text of an ebook while the audiobook plays.
Audible Now Lets You Read Along With Your Kindle Books
18 February 2026 (Publishers Weekly)
Audible has added its new Read & Listen feature, which allows users to to follow audiobook narration with synchronized, word-by-word highlighted text, provided they own the Kindle e-book.
Dutch streaming platform pays author only 8.5 cents per audiobook listen
18 February 2026 (NL Times)
For context, authors typically earn around 10 percent of the cover price for the first 4,000 copies of a physical book, equating to roughly 2 euros per book, while e-books often provide a 25 percent share of net proceeds.
Anna’s Archive rolls out the red carpet for robots – and asks them to “persuade” their humans to make donations
18 February 2026 (Complete Music Update)
Part of its unsettlingly chirpy pitch to the robots is a polite ask for any roving AI that comes across the page to consider the fact that it has “likely been trained in part on our data” and to make a donation. Or, if the robot in question is not equipped with the means to pay directly, to use their powers of “human persuasion” to talk an obliging meat puppet into doing it for them.
Growing signs of digital fatigue emerge from Digital Consumer Trends survey
17 February 2026 (Business Plus)
17% of respondents stopped reading e-books on digital devices in the past year.
ElevenLabs Summit: An Audiobook Company That Isn’t About Audiobooks
17 February 2026 (Publishing Perspectives)
Its recent London summit made clear that audiobooks are just one vertical among many for a company now valued at $11 billion. “The average UK resident spends 10 hours on hold each year.” That gap represents one of the largest immediate commercial opportunities in applied artificial intelligence.
Sweden: Spotify adds 1m homes to Swedish audiobook markets
17 February 2026 (Advanced Television)
In total, more than half of Swedish households now have access to audiobooks through a subscription reports Mediavision.
The Onyx Boox Note Air 5 C has perfected the recipe for the ideal E Ink tablet
16 February 2026 (MSN)
Onyx Boox tablets are what Amazon’s Kindle e-readers could only dream of being. Equipped with the Google Play Store, native OCR, stylus support, and a wide range of features found in full-fledged Android tablets, Boox’s E Ink devices are spectacular.
German Social Reading Investment
16 February 2026 (Borsenblatt, via Carlo Carrenho at Publishing Perspectives)
Frankfurt-based social reading app READO—now counting more than 500,000 active users—has secured a seven-figure funding round, notes Börsenblatt. Are you ready to abandon Facebook and move your bookshelf to READO?
With e-textbooks, Massachusetts lawmakers seek consumer protections for students
13 February 2026 (New England Public Media)
MA Lawmakers have proposed a special commission to look at the financial impact of e-books on students, considering the benefits, costs and resale limits of e-textbooks, as well as looking at the single-user access model and contracts that electronic textbook producers have with colleges and universities.
Report Suggests Piracy Accounts for Nearly a Third of the Italian Book Market, with Mounting Concern Over AI
13 February 2026 (Publishing Perspectives)
For the first time, this year’s survey addressed a new element of the piracy threat—the “difficult-to-quantify losses caused by the use of AI-generated summaries and condensations of books.”
Wiley Enters Strategic Partnership with IT Group Virtusa
12 February 2026 (Intellectia)
Virtusa has taken over Wiley’s technology operations in Sri Lanka in a multi-year managed services partnership to provide infrastructure and application services, aimed at accelerating Wiley’s technology transformation.
Microsoft Launches Publisher Content Marketplace for AI Rights
11 February 2026 (The New Publishing Standard)
The early partners include Business Insider, Condé Nast, Hearst, The Associated Press, USA TODAY, and Vox Media – all news and magazine publishers optimised for velocity and volume. At the same time Amazon has been briefing publishing executives about plans to launch a content licensing marketplace that would allow publishers to sell their content directly to AI companies, positioning itself as a direct competitor to Microsoft’s PCM
Anna’s Archive Quietly ‘Releases’ Millions of Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Push-back
12 February 2026 (Torrent Freak)
Anna’s Archive is generally known as a meta-search engine for shadow libraries, enabling users find pirated books and other related resources. The shadow library’s backend torrent index now lists dozens of new torrents containing approximately 2.8 million tracks totaling roughly 6 terabytes of audio data. This marks a significant escalation in the already historic standoff with the music industry.
Amazon Kindle Scribe has a new rival with an unbeatable price tag
11 February 2026 (t3.com)
The InkPad One from PocketBook has a 10.3-inch e-paper display for a great price, and comes with a stylus and a premium build. This includes an aluminium frame and paper-like writing experience, as well as all the properties of a luxury eBook device. Where it mainly differs from the Kindle Scribe is in price – you can expect to pay just £270 for the InkPad One in the UK ($360 in the States). That’s more than £100 cheaper than the black and white Scribe.
Negligible ebook and audio book sales growth in 2025
11 February 2026 (Publishing Perspectives)
December ebook sales were off 2.8% in 2025 from the previous year, and finished down slightly for the full year (0.3%). Digital Audio net revenues were off 0.8% in December 2025, with the format posting a modest 2.1% gain for the year.
Storytel Group Reports Record Profitability
11 February 2026 (Press Release)
“Our integrated streaming and publishing strategy delivered record profitability and cash flow generation for 2025. As we enter 2026, we are focused on scaling this momentum by leveraging AI-driven innovation to lead the future of storytelling.”
Cashmere Appoints Former Elsevier and Perlego Executive Sue Hodgson as VP of Strategic Partnerships
10 February 2026 (National Law Review)
Cashmere.io is involved in licensing content for AI. They work with major publishers, including Wiley, Harvard Business Publishing, and have received funding from industry leaders such as Ingram Content Group, Pearson, and Wattpad parent company Naver.
Pirate Group Anna’s Archive fails to respond to music labels’ copyright lawsuit
9 February 2026 (Music Business Worldwide)
Shadow library Anna’s Archive has been formally placed in default after failing to respond to a copyright lawsuit filed by major record labels and Spotify over the alleged scraping of 86 million tracks from the streaming platform.
ElevenLabs, Valued at $11 Billion, ‘Doubles Down’ on Audiobooks
9 February 2026 (Publishers Weekly)
Last week, ElevenLabs raised an additional $500M Series D funding, valuing the company at $11 billion, nearly double the $6.6 billion the company had been valued at in September 2025. It is hosting its annual summit for audio creatives and enterprises in London this Wednesday.
Nvidia says it didn’t use pirated books to train its AI models
9 February 2026 (Toms Hardware)
Company asking for Anna’s Archive suit to be dismissed. Nvidia is pushing back against claims that it trained AI models on pirated books, telling a federal court in California that its alleged contact with the library ‘Anna’s Archive’ doesn’t amount to proof of copyright infringement.
US Schools race to meet web accessibility deadlines
6 February 2026 (K-12 Dive)
The DOJ rule requires public entities such as school districts to ensure digital textbooks meet accessibility requirements.
Bookshop.org and Draft2Digital Partnership
4 February 2026 (Press Release)
Through this partnership, self-published ebooks will be sold by independent bookstores, marking a transformative milestone for indie authors.
Why Some Of The Largest Book Publishers Are Hiring AI Engineers
3 February 2026 (Forbes)
None of them is planning to use AI for editing or writing — at least for now. Instead, the job listings reveal that publishers are looking to adopt AI to run their businesses more intelligently, such as building forecasting models that can help predict which books will perform well and how they should be priced.
Danish Students Face Fines Over Textbook Piracy
2 February 2026 (Torrent Freak)
After “awareness” campaigns that failed to move the needle for years, Denmark’s leading anti-piracy group is shifting to a more aggressive litigation strategy. The Rights Alliance confirmed it will begin filing civil lawsuits against individual students who are caught sharing even a single digital textbook. In 2025 57% of digital textbooks in Sweden were illegal.
Bookwire Names Ebook Giant Andrew Weinstein as U.S. Lead
2 February 2026 (Publishers Weekly)
The leadership change comes four months after Bookwire’s acquisition by U.S. private equity firm Insight Partners.
January 2026
HarperCollins is using AI for book translations
2 January 2026 (Good E-Reader)
Harlequin romance books are now using AI for translations from English to French, and all in-house translators were fired.
December 2025
Trade Publishing: Ebooks dropped from 17 percent to 11 percent in a decade
30 December 2025 (The New York Times)
Since 2016 ebooks dropped from 17 percent to 11 percent of trade publishing revenue, according to data from the A.A.P. that looked at the first 10 months of each year. But revenue from e-books this year was about the same as it was last year.
Centralized Audiobook Production and Distribution Platform for Independent Authors
30 December 2025 (Digital Journal)
The PublishMyAudiobook platform allows authors to manage audiobook production from narration auditions through final distribution preparation. Authors retain control of their audio rights and are not required to enter exclusive distribution agreements.
Some Audiobooks Are Outselling Hardcovers
29 December 2025 (The Wall Street Journal)
Though the pace of growth has slowed, audiobooks remain a bright spot in publishing.
Spotify acknowledges 300tb data scrape by book pirate Anna’s Archive
29 December 2025 (Chaos Zine)
The group estimates that Spotify hosts approximately 256 million tracks, with Anna’s Archive claiming to possess metadata for about 99.9% of this collection, along with roughly 86 million audio files that constitute approximately 99.6% of total listens.
Australasian Universities Strike Transformative OA Deal with Taylor & Francis
27 December 2025 (The New Publishing Standard)
The agreement explicitly permits use of licensed Taylor & Francis content with AI technologies for non-commercial research and education, subject to appropriate protections.
Denmark’s Library Renaissance: Record Lending Defies Digital Predictions
27 December 2025 (The New Publishing Standard)
For publishers, these figures challenge assumptions about library decline in the digital age.
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