Most of the publishing industry’s AI conversation in the United States happens as if the rest of the world doesn’t exist.

It treats AI in publishing as primarily an American story with international footnotes. But AI in publishing is being shaped in Brussels, London, Auckland, Frankfurt, São Paulo, Sharjah, New Delhi, and Beijing as much as it is being shaped in New York. The decisions that will affect every US publisher’s daily work over the next decade are being made on multiple continents at once.

Which is one of the reasons we are so glad to have Publishing Perspectives as a partner of this summit. They cover the publishing industry as the global industry it actually is.

Publishing Perspectives, In Brief

Publishing Perspectives is the international news outlet for the global book industry. Founded in 2009 by the German Book Office New York, Publishing Perspectives has a daily email edition as well as a monthly rights edition, sharing insight into individual book markets, reporting from book fairs and festivals around the world, highlighting trends, and reporting on news that is essential for international publishing professionals. 

Erin L. Cox was part of the founding team in 2009 as Business Development Director after years working in-house at Scribner, HarperCollins, Oxford University Press, and The New Yorker. Today, she is the publisher of Publishing Perspectives. Andrew Richard Albanese, a 30-plus-year publishing journalist who previously spent 16 years at Publishers Weekly and 14 years at Library Journal joined as editor-in-chief in January 2026 after the passing of Porter Anderson who was editor from 2016-2025. 

That global reach continues today. Publishing Perspectives’ coverage spans every major international fair and gathering in the calendar: Frankfurt, London, Bologna, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, Guadalajara, Beijing, Shanghai, the IPA Congress, and more; as well as topics and trends that impact publishers around the world.

Publishing Perspectives’ own mission statement puts it directly: international collaboration and a supportive world community lead to a strong, vibrant publishing industry. That conviction shapes every story they publish.

Why Global Coverage Is the Coverage That Matters Right Now

Some of the most consequential decisions about how AI will be governed, applied, and guardrail in book publishing are being made outside of the US.

Consider what is happening right now:

•  The EU AI Act is beginning to be phased into force and creates obligations for any high-risk AI system used to generate, market, or distribute content that reaches EU readers. Every US publisher with European distribution is affected. Implementation guidance is being shaped in Brussels and member states.

• UK copyright law is the subject of active consultations on text and data mining exceptions. Outcomes there will set precedent that travels into US licensing contracts and platform terms of service.

•  International rights is where AI clauses are being negotiated first. Foreign rights professionals are seeing language now that will be in your contracts later.

• Global trade houses with international footprints are running multi-country AI strategies that move faster than anything most US-only publishers will see internally for years.

• International literacy and translation questions, including how AI is reshaping access in languages and markets with smaller commercial publishing footprints, are being worked through at organizations like the International Publishers Association and at fairs in the Global South.

All of these are covered, regularly, in Publishing Perspectives. If you want to understand where AI in publishing is actually going, that gap is not small. It is most of the picture.

An International Perspective at the NCAI AI Summit

This was not a theoretical concern when we built the speaker roster for the Human-Aligned & Ethical AI in Book Publishing Summit. It was a design principle.

Sara Lloyd, Group Communications Director and Global AI Lead at Pan Macmillan, is one of our headline speakers. Sara leads Pan Macmillan’s AI strategy across an international business. Her session tells the story of how a global publisher actually approaches AI when its operations, authors, and readers span multiple countries at once.

One of Pan Macmillan’s seven AI principles, which Sara took the time to walk attendees through, is explicitly about working internationally:

“Working with industry bodies and our group companies worldwide, bringing ideas, concerns, and the rights of our people and creative partners to bear on AI developments and legislation.”

That is a posture that comes from being a global publisher. It says, in essence: the rules that govern AI in our industry are being shaped right now, in many places at once, and we want to be at every one of those tables. And Publishing Perspectives is the outlet covering it as it happens.

Alexandra Andhov, the inaugural Chair in Law and Technology and Director of the Center for Advancing Law and Technology Responsibly (ALTeR) at the University of Auckland, is another speaker who illustrates the same point. She is at this summit because the AI companies’ business models that US publishers have to understand are global business models. She is bringing legal and economic perspective from outside the US to a US-heavy audience because the framing only makes sense when you can see the global picture. 

These speakers are on the summit deliberately. We needed the international perspective in the room. Publishing Perspectives is, in effect, doing the same work in print form, every day.

Why Publishing Perspectives Is the Outlet We Recommend

There are publications that cover international publishing. There are fewer that cover it well. Few are able to cover it consistently on a global basis, with reporters who actually attend the international fairs, talk to publishers in multiple countries, and follow legislation and standards work in real time. Publishing Perspectives does.

Their reporting on AI in particular has been substantive and ongoing. To take one example close to this conversation: when BISG and BookNet Canada released their 2025 industry-wide AI survey, the most thorough trade-press coverage of the results was published by Publishing Perspectives. That reporting is part of what made the data legible to the broader industry. It is also a small, specific example of what good global publishing journalism does: surface the work being done by industry bodies, in plain language, for the practitioners who need it.

We’re Proud to Have Publishing Perspectives as a Summit Partner

Publishing Perspectives is a Supporting Partner of the Human-Aligned & Ethical AI in Publishing Summit because their journalism is part of how the global industry stays informed enough to act.

Next Chapter AI helps publishing teams build literacy, policy, and human-aligned workflows. Publishing Perspectives helps the global industry see itself clearly, every day. The summit, and our work in general, would be poorer without their reporting in the background. Their reporting, in turn, gives every reader access to a wider conversation than they would have otherwise. That is the kind of partner we want.

If you market books, edit books, sell books, scout books, or run any kind of operation in publishing, the price of admission to the global conversation about your own industry is shockingly low. It is a free email subscription.

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