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  1. May 22, 2026· 12 min

    AI, bookstores, and awards redefine power in the publishing market

    Digital piracy, retail consolidation, and the geographical shift of literary prestige are redrawing global publishing power in a week of 40 stories.

  2. May 20, 2026· 9 min

    401 authors imprisoned: the year silencing became routine

    In thirty days, censorship surfaced in eight countries — US schools and courts, European centralization and arrests, silence in the monitored Asian axis.

  3. May 15, 2026· 5 min

    Taxation, AI, and power: the publishing market on three fronts

    The book sector faces exceptional taxation in 2026, publishers sue Meta over AI training, and authors reorganize editorial power.

  4. May 9, 2026· 7 min

    Asia rewrites the contract between publisher, author, and machine

    AI, manga, and derivatives open three simultaneous fronts in the Asian publishing market. What changes when technology meets a mature industry.

  5. May 8, 2026· 5 min

    Consolidation, content, and confrontation: the week on three fronts

    Křetínský advances on Fnac, Hachette expands into cinema, and publishers confront Meta over AI book usage. A weekly overview.

  6. Apr 29, 2026· 7 min

    Three fronts open in the publishing market — what the panel revealed in recent weeks

    Editorial freedom under pressure, a crisis in book retail, and AI impacting the production chain. These three fronts emerged simultaneously in at least nine countries.