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Everyone is talking about influencers and the “Greta generation”. Time for an interview with our colleague Hendrik Hellige. Together with his team, he is developing a new area for young target groups at Frankfurter Buchmesse.

How is leadership changing in the book industry – and what perspectives do women in decision-making positions bring to the table? This interview focuses on two voices that come from different contexts but share similar questions: Karin Schmidt-Friderichs, German publisher and former head of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association, and Slava Svitova, Ukrainian co-founder of the feminist independent publishing house Creative Women Publishing.

What do authorship, acceptance and reading habits look like in a literary world that is increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence? Following the conference ‘The Curated Future: AI, Creativity, and New Paths to Reading Engagement’ in Taipei, we spoke with Taiwanese author Wang Tsung-Wei about creative collaboration between humans and AI. Wang painted a picture of a future in which AI is not just a tool but a partner, and in which readers help shape stories themselves.