Recent links from the tkbr pinboard collection:

 

• Undesirable Difficulties: Investigating Barriers to Students' Learning with Ebooks in a Semester-length Course - viewcontent.cgi 2019/08/09
  study on e-textbook use
• A lot has changed in book publishing in the last ten years | The Idea Logical Company 2019/08/07
  Mike Shatzkin takes stock of a disruptive decade in publishing.
• Macmillan publishes a work of fiction – Thoughts from a Digital Advocate 2019/08/02
  The latest in the struggles between publishers and libraries over ebook terms. This by Steve Potash of OverDrive.
• Judging a Book by its Cover - Reading the Alcuin Society Awards 1981 to today 2019/08/02
  A fascinating analysis of the winners of the Alcuin book design awards since 1981, presented as a dataset with graphs.
• Meet Ashley Audrain, the Toronto author who has the publishing world buzzing | The Star 2019/07/11
  Publicist becomes author and get major deals
• 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