Should AAA Publishers Be Avoiding Political Games? (Opinion)

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Should AAA Publishers Be Avoiding Political Games? (Opinion)

Their publishers, THQ Nordic, are more than happy to risk a game centered around paperwork when larger publishers might not be. For example, the ever-enthusiastic director of A Way Out Josef Fares is about as far as EA is willing to go on the controversy wagon. A screenshot of a cutscene from This Is
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Audible shuts out publishers in play to draw listeners

But the Audible pre-release strategy could face pushback from major publishers, who don't generally buy a new book without the audiobook rights included and would lose money under the new scenario, Seeking Alpha reported. Currently, Audible pays publishers a fee for each audiobook downloaded
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Starbreeze to publish epic strategy title 10 Crowns

Starbreeze Studios has an incredibly diverse library of titles, both under their development and publishing wings. As publishers they've brought us Dead by Daylight, John Wick Chronicles, and will eventually publish Psychonauts 2 and System Shock 3. But do you know what they're lacking? Well, if you
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Exclusive: 1% of publishers initially affected by Chrome ad blocker

Google says that roughly 1% of publishers aren't compliant with its third-party ad blocking standards, meaning the vast majority of web-publishers will not be impacted by the ad blocker the tech giant will install in its latest version of the Google Chrome web browser next week. Why it matters: Publishers
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Tilting at Windmills #267 – Dear Publishers: Weekly Comics Suck

This is a narrative that is regularly advanced by the largest publishers: search “Wednesday Warrior” and “Dan DiDio” to get scores of hits for the DC publisher, and Marvel's Joe Quesada recently got into the game. Even the sell-through reports at Bleeding Cool are designed around the idea that the first
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Rochelle Humes picture book to Studio

TV presenter and pop star Rochelle Humes will publish a picture book with Kings Road Publishing's Studio Press later this year. According to Bonnier, Humes – formerly of group The Saturdays – was inspired to write the book, which is about a girl who wants hair like her best friend's, after her daughter
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Enderlin, Martin Promoted at SMP

St. Martin's Press has announced a number of personnel changes, including the promotion of Jen Enderlin to role of sole publisher of the Macmillan division. Since 2016, Enderlin has shared publishing responsibilities at SMP with Sally Richardson, who has been named SMP chairman.
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Government review into 'sustainability' of UK press will examine whether publishers are getting …

Theresa May has announced a review of the sustainability of Britain's newspaper industry in the face of falling circulations and online competition for advertising revenue. In a speech in Manchester today, the Prime Minister described the free press as “one of the foundations on which our democracy is
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