Recent links from the tkbr pinboard collection:

 

• 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
• Stanford backs down -- for a year -- on ending support for university press 2019/05/02
  The Provost, who had said university was ending its support for university press this year, extends it for another year and suggests more support could be coming in the future. New approach comes amid widespread criticism.
• B&T to Close Its Retail Wholesale Business 2019/05/02
  Baker & Taylor will close down its retail wholesale business in order to better align itself with the education focus of parent company Follett Corp. About 500 jobs will be lost in the process.
• A Technical and Cultural Assessment of the Mueller Report PDF | PDF Association 2019/04/27
  An analysis of the use of PDFs in political context
• Why Archive of Our Own’s surprise Hugo nomination is such a big deal. 2019/04/17
• This Library Takes an Indigenous Approach to Categorizing Books by Sydney Worth — YES! Magazine 2019/04/16
  X̱wi7x̱wa Library at UBC forges ahead with decolonizing subject taxonomies.
• EU Article 13 (Now Article 17) Passes After More Changes, Making Copyright Filtering More Likely | Copyright and Technology 2019/04/02
  Balanced take on how the EU copyright directive might work.
• Springer Nature publishes its first machine-generated book | Group | Springer Nature 2019/04/02
  ...machine-generated overview about latest research, automatically compiled
• The long, complicated, and extremely frustrating history of Medium, 2012–present » Nieman Journalism Lab 2019/03/25
  Laura Hazard Owen provides a revealing history
• Inside the war between Canadian libraries and multinational publishers | Quill and Quire 2019/03/22
  Pricing, formats, spin, and more
• Tim O'Reilly's argument against Reid Hoffman's "Blitzscaling" — Quartz 2019/03/18
  Blitzscaling promises to teach techniques that are “the lightning fast path to building massively valuable companies.” But it's not a recipe for success—it's survivorship bias masquerading as a strategy.
• Digital 2019: Canada — DataReportal – Global Digital Insights 2019/02/22
  Hootsuite's Canada 2019 Report - lots of data about online use.
• Largest Germany Wholesaler Files for Bankruptcy 2019/02/15
  KNV, the largest German book wholesaler and distributor, filed for bankruptcy on February 14.