Privacy Lost and Found
Privacy, as we once knew it, was sold down the digital river a long while ago, says author B.J. Mendelson
Sally Yates Urges Librarians To Hold Politicians “Accountable”
“You can debate policies and issues… but those debates have to be based on common facts and truth” Sally Yates told the Public Library Association conference this week
YouTube Knows Who You Are
The world’s largest music streaming platform is also a search engine and a video platform – YouTube. The Alphabet-owned company, which Google acquired in 2006, holds a 25% share of the streaming music market.
Allegations Force Alexie to Decline ALA Carnegie Medal
“Librarians may believe that you don’t censor, that you don’t pull from your shelves controversial works—but does that extend to a controversial author? In the end, Sherman Alexie made the decision for them.”
Times Book Review No Longer “Review-centric”
Until recently, a New York Times editor admits, the paper ‘had no sense of how to make sense to someone who comes to our book coverage on a phone.’
Workplace Equity Project Surveying Scholarly Publishing
Studies show 60% of the scholarly publishing workforce is female, over 85% is white, and 60% of the leadership is male… The WE Survey hopes to gain some insight into why.
Librarians Confront Gun Violence
In the forthcoming PW issue, Andrew Albanese interviews Parkland (Florida) Public library director Joe Green. “We talked about how you never think this is going to happen in your community, especially not in a community like Parkland.”
The Pursuit of Indie Publishing Happiness
Over three days in early April in Austin, Texas, IBPA’s Publishing University packs in lessons from data standards and marketing strategies to audiobooks and Amazon.
Hachette’s Nourry Slams “Stupid” E-Books
As currently imagined, the e-book market, and even the very concept of the e-book itself, are designed to protect publishers’ legacy print businesses
Global Publishing Trends 2018
Publishing is not a level playing field where everyone can walk in and have their place. It is a market driven by forces that are outside of books and reading.