We’re delighted to announce that ThinkPub has been profiled by Publishers Weekly—the book industry’s leading international trade magazine, often called “the bible of the book business,” in continuous publication since 1872.
In the feature “The EU’s New Publishing School” (by Ed Nawotka, published online on 15 October 2025), Publishers Weekly presents ThinkPub as an ambitious EU-co-funded education platform designed to help Europe’s small and mid-sized publishers navigate rapid digital change. The article includes an interview with Aljaž Koprivnikar of Beletrina (ThinkPub coordinator), outlining how the project builds practical skills across five focus areas—reading, managerial/marketing innovation, emerging technologies (including AI), legal frameworks, and translation—and how its open Library of Digital Learning Objects will aggregate hundreds of freely accessible case studies, talks, and learning materials by the project’s end.
The piece also highlights ThinkPub’s pan-European consortium—from the Federation of European Publishers and Fundación Germán Sánchez Ruipérez/Readmagine to EDRLab, Rüdiger Wischenbart Content & Consulting, the Norwegian Reading Centre (University of Stavanger), Next Page Foundation, Beat Technology, the Polish Chamber of Books, Limassol Book Fair, and the design/tech studio Thinking—illustrating the project’s breadth and real-world ties to industry events and training.
As PW notes, ThinkPub is not just about adapting to disruption; it’s about future-proofing publishing by connecting practitioners, researchers, and technologists—and turning that exchange into usable, open resources for the entire sector. The article also references ThinkPub’s first-year results session during the Frankfurt Book Fair, underscoring our commitment to sharing findings publicly.
Read the feature in Publishers Weekly: “The EU’s New Publishing School.”
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