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OmnipubThe Anchor and the Drift: Academic Publishing in the AI Age
A Frankfurt Innovation Stage session on what a publishing business has to hold fixed while AI moves everything else.
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About this event
Generative AI is rewriting how readers find, evaluate, and trust published work. Search is becoming synthesis. Bylines compete with model output. The signals audiences once used to decide what is credible are shifting under everyone's feet.
In this session on the Frankfurt Book Fair's Innovation Stage, Jonathan Munk separates the anchors from the drift: the parts of a publishing business that must stay fixed (trust, editorial judgment, first-party relationships) from the parts that can and should move (formats, distribution, and the surfaces where discovery happens).
You will leave with a practical frame for deciding where to defend, where to adapt, and how to keep your audience's trust while the ground keeps moving.
Speakers
Jonathan Munk
CEO & Co-founder, Cashmere
Jonathan Munk is Co-Founder and CEO of Cashmere, the content infrastructure company that lets publishers license, monitor, and monetize their catalogs inside AI systems. He came to publishing after more than a decade in education technology, including leadership roles at Degreed and as CEO of BookClub.
Barbara Kilne Pope
Executive Director, Hopkins Press
Barbara Kline Pope is Executive Director of Johns Hopkins University Press, the nation's oldest university press, where she also oversees Project MUSE and Hopkins Fulfillment Services. She joined Hopkins Press in 2017 after 34 years at the National Academies Press, most recently as its Executive Director and as Executive Director for Communications at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.