Recent links from the tkbr pinboard collection:

 

• “I write this for all of you”: Recovering the Unpublished RCMP “Incident” in Maria Campbell’s Halfbreed (1973)1 2018/06/06
• The FBI's War on Black Bookstores - The Atlantic 2018/05/30
  Books are apparently important...
• Internet Trends Report 2018 2018/05/30
  Mary Meeker's annual incredibly high-level trends data.
• Nate's Big List of eBook Market Analytic Tools | The Digital Reader 2018/05/30
• An email marketing case study (for books) — Lounge Marketing 2018/03/12
  How to do email direct marketing -- from Sam Missingham
• Why the PDF Is Secretly the World's Most Important File Format - Motherboard 2018/03/12
  Neat take on the survival of the PDF in modern times
• The Sleaze-O-Meter: Sexual Harassment in the Publishing Industry — Interscript 2018/03/09
• YouTube Channels, Uploads, and Views: A Statistical Analysis of the Past 10 Years 2018/03/02
  Interesting analysis of how the long tail plays out on YouTube
• Pearson Is Selling Its US K-12 Business—Despite Posting a Profit and Digital Growth | EdSurge News 2018/03/01
  Pearson talks consolidating digital.
• Editoria — Building a Book in a Browser – Paged Media 2018/02/26
  UCalifornia Press' Erich van Rijn on browser-based editing and production
• Amazon profits soar to $1.9B in key holiday quarter, eclipsing Wall Street’s expectations – GeekWire 2018/02/02
  Amazon's 2017 earnings, profitability, and Alexa... the juggernaut.
• Apple and Walmart Inject New Life Into Sleepy E-Book Market 2018/01/29
  Interesting report on Kobo's new Walmart deal and the role that might be played by Shelfie, the e-book bundling service (a Vancouver startup) that Kobo acquired.
• Print book sales declined in 2017 — BookNet Canada 2018/01/24
• A changing book business: it all seems to be flowing downhill to Amazon | The Idea Logical Company 2018/01/22
  Excellent overview of data, trends, and perspectives on the book industry today.
• Re: Thoughts on the future of EPUB 3 from Jiminy Panoz on 2018-01-19 (public-epub3@w3.org from January 2018) 2018/01/22
  Some speculation and details on the extent to which Amazon works around the EPUB spec.