Recent links from the tkbr pinboard collection:

 

• 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.
• Canadians reading fewer domestic books, report shows - The Globe and Mail 2019/02/13
  English-language share of sales for homegrown authors have fallen more than 50 per cent since 2005, says new More Canada report.
• Few Open Access Journals are Plan S Compliant[v3] | Preprints 2019/02/01
  Using DOAJ's journal metadata, an overwhelmingly large majority of open access journals are not Plan S compliant...
• Sharing economy as an anti-concept | Pedroni | First Monday 2019/02/01
  The notion of neoliberal entanglement economy is proposed to replace that of sharing economy.
• Library Acquisition Patterns | Ithaka S+R 2019/01/29
  The Library Acquisition Patterns (LAP) project examined trends in US academic libraries’ book purchasing.
• Amazon Crossing Kids, an Imprint for Children’s Books in Translation | Amazon.com, Inc. - Press Room 2019/01/25
  Just when you thought Greystone was on to something with their Aldana Libros imprint...
• Celebrating 30,000 Open Access Articles … PARs, RAPs, and Exploring Implications - The Scholarly Kitchen 2019/01/24
  Does the Wiley/DEAL Publish-and-Read agreement open new pathways to open access? And what's a PAR anyway?