Recent links from the tkbr pinboard collection:

 

• Open Publishing Awards 2019/10/17
  New this year: a juried award for contributions to open publishing and open content. Some extremely interesting projects are winners -- including SFU's own Public Knowledge Project
• The Future of OA: A large-scale analysis projecting Open Access publication and readership - 795310.full.pdf 2019/10/10
  Piwowar and Priem explain the evolution and growth of open-access publication and readership, with the help of stick figures.
• Innovator Story: Unlocking knowledge from PDFs | Labs | eLife 2019/09/27
  Piece on Patrice Lopez, the developer of GROBID, a machine learning library for extracting, parsing and restructuring raw documents such as PDF into structured reusable information.
• Ravenspace 2019/09/19
  A much-anticipated project from UBC Press and UWashington Press, Ravenspace is a "new model and online platform for collaborative authorship and publishing, meeting the standards of peer-reviewed academic publishing and respecting Indigenous protocols for the ownership, access, and use of cultural heritage and traditional knowledge."
• Raven Book Store on Twitter: "Hi! It appears that a certain huge online retailer shipped out copies of @MargaretAtwood's THE TESTAMENTS a week before its release date (September 10th). Some people (it's unclear how many) have already received copies in th 2019/09/05
  This is bad. Here's why. (a twitter thread)
• Indie Booksellers Incensed as Amazon Breaks 'Testaments' Embargo 2019/09/04
  Amazon seems to have shipped copies of Margaret Atwood's 'The Testaments' in spite of the fact that it's on-sale-date is nearly a week away.
• Market Expansion Fund | Creative BC 2019/08/22
  New money for BC publishers to travel
• Undesirable Difficulties: Investigating Barriers to Students' Learning with Ebooks in a Semester-length Course - viewcontent.cgi 2019/08/09
  study on e-textbook use
• A lot has changed in book publishing in the last ten years | The Idea Logical Company 2019/08/07
  Mike Shatzkin takes stock of a disruptive decade in publishing.
• Macmillan publishes a work of fiction – Thoughts from a Digital Advocate 2019/08/02
  The latest in the struggles between publishers and libraries over ebook terms. This by Steve Potash of OverDrive.
• Judging a Book by its Cover - Reading the Alcuin Society Awards 1981 to today 2019/08/02
  A fascinating analysis of the winners of the Alcuin book design awards since 1981, presented as a dataset with graphs.
• Meet Ashley Audrain, the Toronto author who has the publishing world buzzing | The Star 2019/07/11
  Publicist becomes author and get major deals
• Maple Leaves: Discovering Canada Through the Published Record - oclcresearch-maple-leaves-discovering-canada-through-published-record.pdf 2019/05/24
  Library data about Canadian literature worldwide. Lots of weird data points
• Further reading: Demand for Diversity — BookNet Canada 2019/05/24
  Good roundup of reports and projects addressing the diversity gap in the publishing industries
• North Carolina press seeks sustainable open-access model for monographs 2019/05/03
  John Sherer's OA-first experiment