"What we need, what I’m going to establish, is an ever-expanding phalanx of Wikipedia editors to create, reframe, and defend these pages, which are treated by more and more of the human population as both encyclopedia and news source." - Harper's
In 2022, less than half a percent of books even cleared 100,000. But this is the financial model on which the publishing industry operates: a small number of titles generate sufficient profit to keep the lights on, offsetting the vast majority of the rest. - The Walrus
A German Jew named Curt Bloch spent two years, with two other people, living in a little crawl space in the Dutch city of Enschede. Along with food, his protectors brought him the materials to produce 95 issues of an original publication he called The Underwater Cabaret. - The New York Times
On Halloween, 2023, the British Library suffered a massive cyberattack, which rendered its web presence nonexistent, its collections access disabled, and even its wifi fried. - Public Books
Amazon certainly doesn't seem to want to solve the issue by, say, verifying review writers. Now it's asking Goodreads users, along with a team of volunteers, to solve the one-star slams that can destroy writers' careers. - NPR
In the 1980s, Steve Potash wanted law books and forms available on computers - so he digitized them himself. Thus was OverDrive, which now has 92,000 libraries and schools as customers, born. - MSN (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
"Around two-dozen books were removed from two plantation gift shops' offerings after the Texas Historical Commission received complaints that the titles were too focused on racism and white supremacy." - Houston Chronicle
Honestly, To Kill a Mockingbird doesn't need a Banned Books table. But youth book authors who are authors of color or LGBTQIA are facing desperate times as the actual battle is fought about school visits. - The New York Times
The “The Long Tail” was that a slew of niche content creators would prosper on the internet. That has proved illusory for most of them. It’s a winner-takes-all game; too often the tech platforms aggregating the content and the blockbusters win it all, starving a large majority of creators. - The New York Times
The much-honored Russian-American journalist, who is Jewish, made the comparison in a December 9 New Yorker essay criticizing Germany's unequivocal backing of Israel in its war on Hamas. In response, the Heinrich Böll Foundation, which administers the prize, withdrew its support, though Gessen will be awarded by another entity. - The Guardian
"Cait Corrain admitted that she had created six profiles on ... Goodreads in order to boost the ratings of her forthcoming debut sci-fi novel, Crown of Starlight, and downgrade a number of fellow debut authors. … She added that she would enter 'an intensive psychiatric care and rehab facility.'" - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
"Through social media platforms like TikTok and YouTube, they are literally spreading the word, reshaping the French language from African countries, like Ivory Coast, that were once colonized by France." - The New York Times
A bad doctor and an uncircumspect translator are both bad in proportion to the good that they would be able to perform if they were performing at their profession’s fullest potential. - 3 Quarks Daily
The screen inferiority effect (as it's called) has been repeatedly documented in studies, regardless of the language or country involved. The effect is different, however, for different types of subject matter. The reasons for all this aren't clearly understood yet, but there are some clues. - Psyche
