Recent links from the tkbr pinboard collection:

 

• 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

• ACM, SIGCHI, and the Economics of Open Access Publishing | ACM SIGCHI 2020/01/22
  "ACM could transition to universal gold open access and make all content in the ACM Digital Library freely available. This would have significant implications for the ACM as a scholarly society"
• 2020: Zero year thoughts about the changes in book publishing | The Idea Logical Company 2020/01/07
  Mike Shatzkin's 2020 predictions for the book industry
• Sonny Mehta, Visionary Head of Alfred A. Knopf, Dies at 77 - The New York Times 2019/12/31
  Enormously influential Sonny Mehta of Knopf dies at 777
• 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.