Recent links from the tkbr pinboard collection:

 

• The Inside Story of MacKenzie Scott, the Mysterious 60-Billion-Dollar Woman | Marker 2021/02/04
  Bezos' ex becomes a new kind of philsanthropist?
• Bracing for Another E-book Price-Fixing Case 2021/02/03
  Price fixing, Amazon
• Thoughts about what Covid and 2020 mean for book publishing | The Idea Logical Company 2021/01/08
  Shatzkin offers some important reflection on what's in the Guren, McIlroy, & Sieck report on COVID-19 and Book Publishers.
• Washington’s Secret to the Perfect Zoom Bookshelf? Buy It Wholesale. - POLITICO 2021/01/04
  Books as decor, on tap.
• Emily Wilson · Ah, how miserable! Three New Oresteias · LRB 8 October 2020 2020/10/08
  On poetry, translation, gender.
• The 360° Competitor - The Scholarly Kitchen 2020/10/07
  Joe Esposito on possible structural reasons for Penguin/Random's interest in acquiring Simon & Schuster.
• Why Goodreads is bad for books 2020/09/15
  After years of complaints from users, Goodreads’ reign over the world of book talk might be coming to an end. 
• Publishers Are Taking the Internet to Court | The Nation 2020/09/11
  In a lawsuit against the Internet Archive, the largest corporations in publishing want to change what it means to own a book.
• Book Industry Leaders Send Joint Letter to Capitol Hill Regarding Amazon’s Concentrated Market Power and Control 2020/08/18
  

  Following the House Antitrust Subcommittee’s capstone digital markets hearing, “Online Platforms and Market Power, Part 6: Examining the Dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google,” three groups representing thousands of authors, publishers, and booksellers in the United States – the Association of American Publishers, Authors Guild, and American Booksellers Association – have sent a joint letter to Subcommittee Chairman David Cicilline (D-R.I.)

• The #ReclaimHerName initiative ignores the authorial choices of the writers it represents. 2020/08/17
  

  All of these writers also had different reasons for wanting to present their books with male pseudonyms, including perhaps desires to present their own selves with male names. It doesn’t do much good to speculate about sexualities of the past, and apply anachronistic labels and designations in the process.

• Independent bookstores adapted quickly to closed doors, customers' demands | Vancouver Sun 2020/08/17
  A look at how BC booksellers are faring through the pandemic.
• Internet Archive Answers Publishers' Copyright Lawsuit 2020/08/05
  

  In responding to a lawsuit filed by four publishers last month, lawyers for the Internet Archive argue that the IA has made careful efforts to ensure its uses are lawful, and contend that its program to scan and lend print books from library shelves is sheltered by the fair use doctrine, and buttressed by traditional library practices and protections.

• Stories of strength and resilience: the publishing community's heroes, chosen by you | Quill and Quire 2020/06/30
  Q&Q asked the publishing community to nominate heroes who have in some way, big or small, contributed to sustaining the industry.
• Stories of strength and resilience: Honouring the publishing industry's COVID-19 heroes | Quill and Quire 2020/06/30
  Q&Q's June issue celebrated the publishing industry's innovative, generous spirit during the trials of COVID-19.
• COPIM Publishers Workshop: Discovery & dissemination — the present · COPIM 2020/05/28
  Really detailed discussion of the gory details of book publication, in the context of an OA plan