This, via @kellifb.bsky.social, might be the best newspaper correction I've seen this decade.

Let me get this right. 2020—Viacom CBS: books "not core asset... [no] significant connection for our broader business", tries to sell S&S to PRH 2023—What is now Paramount Global sells S&S to KKR 2026—Paramount Global launches new book publisher and says...

It was a great pleasure to judge several of the categories for the 2026 @independentpublishersguild.com Independent Publishing Awards—fantastic entries, showcasing the best of publishing fortitude and innovation.

Decommissioning day for my old MacBook Air: a snapshot before I remove old stickers, which evoke many happy memories of travel, projects and clients.

what if we put issue 8 of Wyrd Science on sale? What if this got more likes & shares than our stupid jokes? featuring Dolmenwood, Blades In The Dark, Doomsong, Kamping Kitbash, Lee Gold, The Old King's Crown, weird fiction, aggro comics, dungeon synth & lots more shop.wyrd.science/products/wyr...

Weekend reading: finished @ldfreedman.bsky.social’s On Strategists & Strategy, a delightfully eclectic collection of essays ranging from first person reminiscences to reflections on the implementation of strategy, Iraq, Ukraine and, with deadpan effect, the Barbie Movie.

Anthropic’s strategy of not chasing after video looks smarter than ever.

Getting to see this award was the unexpected highlight of Redux for me. So very richly deserved.

Strong take.

Thanks to @alpsp.bsky.social and @livunipress.bsky.social for the invitation to keynote at #UPRedux2026 in Liverpool today. It was a great conference, lovely and highly engaged people, and a spectacular venue. Some thoughts on my presentation/slides here: www.georgewalkley.com/Four-Scenari...

Day two of #UPRedux2026 has begun! Today, @georgewalkley.com kicks the second day off with a keynote on AI in the context of scholarly publishing.

Off to Liverpool to speak at #UPRedux2026 tomorrow morning.

Sad to read the news of Len Deighton's death. A little piece of digital publishing trivia: he was the first author to write a book with a word processor, an IBM MT/ST loaned to him in 1968.

An unbelievable lapse in security.

100% this re AI restructuring—an argument I’ve made in several recent presentations on the impact of AI in publishing.

How is this the same team that played England?

That was an unexpectedly thrilling end to the Six Nations 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😀

LBF 2026 done. Three very full days, some great conversations, social battery 🪫, and my liver is hoisting a white flag.

Great to see so many members and publishing friends at our IPG stand party this evening 🥂 #booksky #lbf

This feature is gross, but the proposed opt-out doesn't solve the issue of Grammarly using the names of (in some cases, recently) dead authors. How do they opt out? www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Possibly the least surprising political news this year. www.ft.com/content/e759...

There are only three days left so it's unlikely it'll hit its goal, but there's a Kickstarter ongoing for a series of immersive audio stories set in the Withered Hill universe. www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

Checks out.

COME ON!! We're in @sfxmagazine.bsky.social this month. Still taking pledges for 13 more days. Six episodes of folk horror immersive audio in @davidmbarnett.bsky.social's Withered Hill universe. (photo by Jeni Clack. Bookshelves by Tom and Jeni) www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

14 days to go. That's two weeks in old money. We have everything in place to produce 3 hours of immersive audio folk horror. We'd very much like the opportunity to do something we've never seen done in an immersive presentation before. www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

MAD-LHR

Good luck to anyone trying to publish any other news today.

LHR-MAD

At the risk of sounding like Tyler Brûlé, the thing I miss most about pre-pandemic flying is print media. No FT at the gate now, no obscure glossy magazines in the lounge.

I'm in half a dozen Slack workspaces across different clients and partners. It's amazing to me that there seems to be no simple, native functionality to manage my status across all of them. Anyone got a good workaround for this?

Posit: the likelihood of someone having a careful, nuanced understanding of AI is inversely proportional to their willingness to sound off about it on a crowded train. There's a person sitting behind me giving their lucky travelling companion an opinion at top volume, and... just no.

Had an excellent time at the @independentpublishersguild.com Spring Conference yesterday. Great presentations and company. On the train home, I wrote a quick blog post about the things I'm thinking about as a result of the day. www.georgewalkley.com/IPG-Spring-C...

It makes a nice change when the first social post you see in the morning is pure joy. 😀

Very funny: can you tell the difference between antidepressant drugs and Tolkien characters? antidepressantsortolkien.vercel.app

Had an excellent time at the @independentpublishersguild.com Spring Conference yesterday. Great presentations and company. On the train home, I wrote a quick blog post about the things I'm thinking about as a result of the day. www.georgewalkley.com/IPG-Spring-C...

Looking forward to seeing lots of friends and colleagues at the @independentpublishersguild.com Spring Conference tomorrow. One of the highlights of the publishing year. #IPGSC

I’ve seen this piece shared a lot this afternoon, largely by friends and colleagues with a more critical perspective on AI. It’s worth reading in its entirety: hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d.... But I’d treat it with a degree of caution. It’s directionally interesting, but worth emphasising…

I think most people can make up their own mind on who qualifies as a fairly unreliable individual.

Loved the MiniDisc.

It’s Saturday morning and you remember that pledge you were going to make to The Devil’s Sound? Now’s the time..

Whoever is responsible for the auto-generated transcripts in the Apple Podcast app should have a word with themself. Today, “Sir Keir Starmer” = “Sakyas Dhamma”. Say what you like about Steve Jobs, but you cannot imagine a product this sloppy shipping on his watch.

Whoever is responsible for the auto-generated transcripts in the Apple Podcast app should have a word with themself. Today, “Sir Keir Starmer” = “Sakyas Dhamma”. Say what you like about Steve Jobs, but you cannot imagine a product this sloppy shipping on his watch.

Hey, you! Please check out our Kickstarter for THE DEVIL'S SOUND, an immersive six-part audio experience set in the WITHERED HILL folk horror universe. It's a way of funding, but will cost you £18 maximum for all six episodes, which you listen to while walking. www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

Just finished E02 of Starfleet Academy. I’m enjoying it a lot, but it also confirms a view I’ve had for a while: Star Trek always really depicts the America it was made in, not the future. TOS was obvs Kennedy’s High Frontier: optimistic liberalism, technocratic confidence, space as destiny.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

“By the dawn’s early light.” Chills. The America I love.

Having been to three excellent trade shows at Excel in the last year, I’m really looking forward to this.

Reminds me of Foch’s battlefield dispatch: “Mon centre cède, ma droite recule. Situation excellente, j’attaque.”

okay - its the end of January, and you all made it. If you were holding out for payday, then now's the time to pledge for The Devil's Sound, a six part immersive audio experience like no other, set in @davidmbarnett.bsky.social's Withered Hill universe: www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

My colleagues at Bks Agency (part of @midascampaigns.bsky.social) are hiring for an assistant: would be an ideal role for someone looking for early experience in the publishing industry, including agenting and rights sales. Details below, shares/reposts welcome 🙏 www.linkedin.com/posts/george...