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Technology • Innovation • Publishing - Issue #162

Technology • Innovation • Publishing - Issue #162
By Kathy Sandler • Issue #162 • View online

Innovation
Google Cloud launches multi-year partnership with NBA Top Shot creator Dapper Labs to help scale its Flow blockchain. Dapper handles between 500K and 1m transactions a week.
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Technology
Apple issued emergency updates to fix a flaw that allows highly invasive spyware to infect anyone’s iPhone, Apple Watch or Mac computer without so much as a click.
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The social network has constructed a vast infrastructure to keep toxic material off its platform. At the center of it is Accenture, the blue-chip consulting firm.
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Facebook is exempting some high-profile users from some or all of its rules, including the posting of false information #Facebook
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ICYMI Its own in-depth research shows a significant teen mental-health issue that Facebook plays down in public. Part 2 in a series offering an unparalleled look inside the social-media giant’s failings—and its unwillingness or inability to address them. #instagram
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The most divisive content that publishers produce is going viral on Facebook, creating an incentive to create more of it. #Facebook
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The biggest-ever deal for a privately-held bootstrapped company, as Mailchimp took no outside funding since its 2001 founding.
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Sifted visited on-demand grocery startup Getir’s dark store in Battersea to learn how these microfulfilment centres work.
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Ikea is launching a furniture buyback program in the U.S.
Ikea is launching a furniture buyback program in the U.S.
Done with your Malm? Ikea will pay you for it.
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Publishing & Media
MT @JaneFriedman Bookshop is on track to do about as many sales in 2021 as in 2020. They now host stores that rank No. 1 in Google for book recommendations from their @Bookshop_Org lists via @DannyCrichton at @TechCrunch
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The battle for control of Lagardere enters what may be its final stage, as well-funded Vivendi is taking steps towards a full takeover.
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Podcaster/”book influencer” and author Zibby Owens is launching Zibby Books. Starting in January 2023, the line will publish 12 books a year.
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Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library receives award from Library of Congress
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library receives award from Library of Congress
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library received the $150,000 David M. Rubenstein Prize from the Library of Congress. The Imagination Library has given away more than 160 million books to children worldwide and now delivers 1.8 million books to children five-years-old and younger every month.
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RT @PenguinTeen It’s time! Our #MetGala2021 Books as Looks starts now! Call Us What We Carry - @TheAmandaGorman #teamPRH
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The suit accuses a Chegg subscription study service of illegally appropriating end-of-chapter questions from various textbooks. #BookBusiness #copyright
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As part of Neustart Kultur (New Start Culture) economic stimulus, German govt offering bookstores 1,030 awards of €8,000 (~$9,450) to €25,000 ($29,530), rewarding stores for being creative and “stimulating cultural life in Germany in difficult times.”
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Spider-Man’s First Comic Brings $3.6 Million, Likely a Record
Spider-Man’s First Comic Brings $3.6 Million, Likely a Record
The Amazing Fantasy No. 15 from 1962 leaps past Superman to sell for what is believed to be the highest price for a comic book.
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Travel + Leisure has started two trip-booking services, one free and one subscription, for readers of its longtime luxury travel publication. #magazines
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“We are now the largest content licensor in the world.” #YouTube
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RT @michellemanafy AT&T’s WarnerMedia has sold the celebrity news and gossip brand TMZ to Fox Corp. The deal will see the notorious tabloid founded by Harvey Levin operate under the Fox broadcast network umbrella.
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HT @mediagazer Google is in talks with multiple companies to add free, ad-supported linear channels to Chromecast and other devices running its Google TV platform. This comes after Samsung, Amazon and Roku have seen huge demand. Via @jank0.
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Resources & Opportunities
Via @ingridlunden @TechCrunch LinkedIn is launching an accelerator program as part of a $25 million effort to motivate creators to develop more content.
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Beyond Baroque Announces Amanda Gorman Future Voices Poetry Fund And Scholarship
Beyond Baroque Announces Amanda Gorman Future Voices Poetry Fund And Scholarship
HT @lcamfio The fund, named in honor of Beyond Baroque alumna and U.S. Presidential Inaugural Poet Amanda Gorman, will provide $10,000 to young poets of color.
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The 2021 Breakout Writers Prize
The 2021 Breakout Writers Prize
MT @AuthorsGuild We’re proud to announce the 4th Annual Breakout Writers Prize for Undergraduate and Graduate Students in conjunction with @epiphanylit! Winners receive a cash prize, publication, and a year-long writing mentorship. Submissions close on 11/1.
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MT @randomhouse Join @OneWorldLit on September 29 at 8pm ET for a special Ideas & Action virtual event where we investigate—and celebrate—Banned Books Week, the freedom of ideas, and the necessity and power of even the most discomforting truths. Register for free. #teamPRH
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#AuthorsforVoicesofcolor auction for non-profits that combat racism in the publishing biz. Bid by 9/30
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Writer and editor Michelle Burford has co-authored 10 memoirs and 6 New York Times best sellers (3 of which debuted at #1) including “Just As I Am” written with legendary actress Cicely Tyson (who tragically passed away on January 28, 2021, two days following publication of her memoir). Michelle’s celebrity collaborations also include books with Alicia Keys, Toni Braxton and Simone Biles (to name just a few). Come hear her in conversation with @jkhoey at @WMG_NYC with @ShakeandCoBooks.
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Join @WMG_NYC for a lively panel discussion with women leaders from publishing, digital media, and broadcasting about the changing media landscape. FREE for WMG members, $15 for non-members.
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Kathy Sandler

The latest in technology, innovation, and publishing curated by Kathy Sandler.
I work at Penguin Random House. Opinions expressed are my own.

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