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Books

Publishing, bestsellers and reading.

Esports at a Crossroads: Stadium Dreams vs. Streaming Reality

Once-valued esports franchises are wrestling with the economics of streaming. Growth is real, profits are not.

A generation that was supposed to have stopped reading is buying books by the millions — because of short videos.

The streaming wars made content abundant and awards rare. Prestige is now a genre with its own economics.

Diaspora communities and streaming algorithms are making non-Western pop genuinely global for the first time.

Collectors are trading rare cards, digital items and artist royalties as assets. Fandom now has a balance sheet.