Post by Mark Williams

Javier Celaya's piece for Publishing Perspectives this past week is one of the sharpest provocations publishing has had on AI in a while - not another round of IP-anxiety hand-wringing, but a direct challenge: stop using AI to shrink our cost base and start asking how it helps our industry grow. It sent me down a candlelit rabbit hole (Gambia's power crisis, plus our first big rain-storm of the season, made sure of that) on the Audible hypocrisy nobody in the trade wants to name, why "agentic" gets thrown around more loosely than it should, and what an AI-assisted localisation pipeline can and can't actually solve for foreign rights. Yes, TNPS is sort of back - until the lights go off again, anyway. And what better way to return than with a TNPS LinkedIn Analysis post, where due credit goes to Javier for giving me something to shuffle pencil across paper for in the early hours. Click through below for the full essay. On the TNPS blog later if electricity permits.