Recent links from the tkbr pinboard collection:

 

• 191210-PressRelease-PostSec-Tariff.pdf 2019/12/10
  The Copyright Board of Canada's decision on post-secondary education tariffs: re Universities and Access Copyright. This is the ACP's statement.
• A Writing Revolution § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2019/11/18
  Great article from 2010 about the exponential change in the number of authors in the world
• bowker-selfpublishing-report2019.pdf 2019/10/30
  Stats on the size, growth, and shocking consolidation of the self-published sector.
• Baker & Taylor Publisher Services Announces Ampersand, Inc. as New Sales Representation Partner in Canada 2019/10/30
  Baker & Taylor Publisher Services (BTPS), a leading provider of sales and fulfillment services, is pleased to announce that Ampersand, Inc. will be its new book sales representation partner in Canada
• Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury hit by US-China tariffs - BBC News 2019/10/29
  Bloomsbury faced a overnight price rise of 15% in the cost of books shipped from China to America.
• Libraries Take E-Book Lending Fight into Antitrust Territory | Copyright and Technology 2019/10/28
  More on American libraries pursuing antitrust leg against Amazon + Big 5.
• MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts | Scholarly Publishing - MIT Libraries 2019/10/28
  "The MIT Framework creates a mechanism for ensuring scholarly research outputs are openly and equitably available to the broadest and most inclusive audience possible, while also providing valued services to our community."
• Congress Looking into Anticompetitive Behavior in the Digital Library Market 2019/10/25
  'American Library Association officials told lawmakers that “unfair behavior by digital market actors—and the outdated public policies that have enabled them—is doing concrete harm to libraries.”'
• 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