Recent links from the tkbr pinboard collection:

 

• 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
• The Atlantic lays off dozens of staff members as pandemic hits media budgets - The Washington Post 2020/05/22
  The 'live events' model that supports many magazines maes for a double hit in pandemic times.
• Amazon hurt them. The lockdown hurt them. Now there’s a painful loss in court. Canada’s book biz — authors, publishers, retailers — is hunting for a new business model | The Star 2020/05/21
  Canadian publishers facing multiple challenges in pandemic times.
• v32#2 Love and Other Data Assets - Against the Grain 2020/05/13
  Jesse Strommel on remembering the agengas behind our online learning platforms, LMS, and software tools.
• The supply chain for book publishing is being changed by Coronavirus too | The Idea Logical Company 2020/04/29
  Mike Shatzkin talks about how Ingram's dominance of POD fulfillment is having a huge effect on publishing supply chains in the pandemic
• Major Win for York on Copyright: York University v. Access Copyright Case Review - Field Law 2020/04/29
  Coverage of this major court ruling, which doesn't change the lower court's ruling on Fair Dealing, but does appear to disqualify Access Copyright from being the enforcer.
• Canadian Publishers Call for Copyright Reform in the Face of Broken Legal Framework 2020/04/29
  Association of Canadian Publishers' response to the recent Federal Court of Appeal ruling on York v Access Copyright
• What Can Independent Presses Do to Survive These Uncertain Times? 2020/04/23
  ZG Communications' Jessica Abel Kovitz offers advice to indie publishers in 2020
• Megativity and Miniaturization at the Frankfurt Book Fair « Post45 2020/04/08
  Best thing you'll read about the Frankfurt Book Fair.
• 10 MYTHS ABOUT DIGITAL LITERARY CULTURE « Post45 2020/04/08
  A smart skewering
• The Internet Archive’s Copyright Emergency | Copyright and Technology 2020/04/06
  Analysis of the Internet Archive's Emergency Library plan
• Internet Archive offers 1.4 million copyrighted books for free online | Ars Technica 2020/03/30
  Can unlimited digital lending be defensible under Fair Use? In an Emergency?
• Smorgasbords Don’t Have Bottoms | Issue 36 | n+1 2020/01/31
  

  in times of scarcity publishers will not be there to do the work of promotion, or that such work cannot happen without their active buy-in, or that, in the most extreme cases, there aren’t enough promotional channels left