Current events in the publishing industry
Bookselling / Sales
- https://www.wired.com/2016/10/amazon-adds-free-books-ever-growing-list-prime-benefits/
- http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/70893-new-pok-mon-game-takes-bookstores-by-storm.html
- http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/financial-reporting/article/71529-trade-book-sales-down-in-q1-of-2016.html
Copyright/DRM
- https://teleread.org/2016/10/07/of-ebook-legal-restrictions-we-need-more-fud/
- https://teleread.org/2016/10/07/ebook-retail-platform-from-editionguard-offers-choice-of-watermarking-or-drm/
Print vs Digital Reading
- http://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/e-books-are-on-the-decline-and-people-are-switching-back-to-print
- Print or Digital, It’s Reading That Matters (Sept 16, 2016)
- Audiobooks Turn More Readers Into Listeners as E-Book Slip (Sept 23, 2016)
- http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/71671-harlequin-starts-graydon-house-books.html
- “Audiobooks: Are you ‘cheating’ if you listen rather than read traditionally?”
- http://toc.oreilly.com/2013/05/why-ebooks-why-green-e-publishing.html#annotations:677VrpDfEea9Fo_h1sogrA
Tracking/Analytics
- https://teleread.org/2016/09/24/tracking-reader-habits-using-tech-good-or-bad-for-readers-and-writers/
- http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304870304577490950051438304
- https://www.wired.com/2016/09/bestseller-code
- http://toc.oreilly.com/2013/04/numbers-never-lie-unless-youre-talking-social-media.html#annotations:yyR9_JDlEeaOlINtf0Ji1A
Libraries
- http://www.pewinternet.org/2016/09/09/libraries-2016/?utm_source=adaptivemailer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9-9-2016%20libraries&org=982&lvl=100&ite=272&lea=35911&ctr=0&par=1&trk
- https://teleread.org/2016/09/25/falling-book-readership-shows-the-need-for-a-national-digital-library-endowment/
- https://teleread.org/2016/09/12/in-an-ebook-era-should-libraries-play-down-paper-books-to-make-way-for-meeting-spaces-and-makerspaces-pew-survey-reveals-split/)
Translation
- https://medium.com/@ageitgey/machine-learning-is-fun-part-5-language-translation-with-deep-learning-and-the-magic-of-sequences-2ace0acca0aa#.rxo80q9jh
- http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/71273-google-translating-a-classic-novel.html
- http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/71659-nbf-to-conduct-translation-study.html
- https://teleread.org/2016/08/27/found-in-translation-how-amazon-is-filling-a-gap-in-world-literature/)
Crowdfunding / Self-Publishing
- http://toc.oreilly.com/2013/04/crowdfunding-news-crowdsourcing-publishers-digital-frontier-library-innovation.html
- https://unbound.com
- http://www.phillyvoice.com/penn-grad-crowdfunding-philly-themed-adult-coloring-book/
- https://medium.com/kickstarter/introducing-the-creative-independent-2a8593e563c6#.8cmaue61q
- “How ‘Diary of an Oxygen Thief’ Went from Self-Published Obscurity to Bestsellerdom”
Diversity in Publishing
New Reading and Writing Platforms
- http://publishingperspectives.com/2016/06/joosr-brings-condensed-reading-uk-commuters/#.WARrYZMrJE4
- “The Freewrite is the ultimate distraction-free writing tool”
- https://medium.com/@shauntagrimes/nanowrimo-sucks-438c68b2a658#.wt9goc533