Recent links from the tkbr pinboard collection:

 

• You-niversity? – Making Knowledge Public – Medium 2018/12/07
  Carina Albrecht and Alice Fleerackers' survey results, on the university-public relation
• An academic’s podcast gets the peer-review treatment | University Affairs 2018/12/05
  Guess who?
• Canadian English-Language Book Publishing Industry Profile - Book-Publishing-Industry-Profile-FINAL.pdf 2018/11/26
  The ACP's 2018 high-level overview report
• Quebec Superior Court approves settlement between Copibec and Université Laval over copyright | Quill and Quire 2018/11/15
  cf. Access Copyright disputes
• Québec's Copibec Opens the Newest Copyright Challenge in Canada 2018/11/15
  context on Copibec, including the $13.50 rate
• What’s the Matter with Fiction Sales? 2018/11/14
  PW analysis of downward trends in fiction sales over the past five years. Various theories floated.
• BCAC Recipient List Jan-July 2018.pdf 2018/11/14
• BISG Releases Draft White Paper on Open Access Ebook Usage - Book Industry Study Group 2018/11/06
• Eleven SF bookstores get cash assistance from city - Mission Local 2018/10/18
• US Amazon Prime Membership Flattens - Oct 2018 2018/10/16
• New Record: More than 1 Million Books Self-Published in 2017 2018/10/16
  Note that these numbers are based on ISBNs issued. Amazon does not require an ISBN...
• Trump-bullied Canada to increase copyright terms 20 years if trade deal passes 2018/10/02
  Read past the sensationalistic headline... our copyright term may about to be extended by 20 yrs.
• Volume 23, Number 10 - 1 October 2018 2018/10/01
  Guest-edited issue of First Monday on screen vs print reading
• OMDC Book Industry Profile 2018/09/20
  2017 profile of Canadian publishing by the Ontario Media Development Corp
• Most Read Fiction | Amazon Charts 2018/09/19
  September 2018 snapshot of the actual activity on Amazon.ca