MT @corintxt An update to the Facebook website misuses HTML accessibility features on a huge scale, seemingly to foil ad blockers & research tools like @themarkup‘s Citizen Browser. As yet, impacts on visually impaired users are unclear.
Facebook Inc on Saturday slammed a Wall Street Journal series of articles about the social media company’s platform as containing “deliberate mischaracterizations” and said the articles “conferred egregiously false motives to Facebook’s leadership and employees.” #Facebook
HT @mediagazer Users could create documents, spreadsheets, and slideshows and then promote them as newsletters through a Drive public profile. By @tomaxwell.
RT @DaraKaye OK it’s time for a little how-the-sausage gets made venting session on foreign rights in book publishing. Today I got an email about a topic that strikes UGH into the hearts of everyone who deals with foreign rights: Form 6166.
Gillian Flynn and Lena Waithe will become publishers of their own imprints at Zando, the independent publisher led by ceo Molly Stern. Flynn and Waithe are the first “catalyst partners” announced in Zando’s plan to partner with influential figures and institutions to publish and promote books. Catalyst partners have a revenue share.
RT @ibpa IBPA has partnered with @diversebooks to raise money for the WNDB Internship Grant Program! WNDB’s goals align with our vision where everyone can tell their story and find themselves in the content they read.
As supply chain issues continue to plague the retail sector, booksellers have become some of the most vocal voices online to warn of coming shortages. #supplychain
HT @PublishersWkly An ‘exceptionally rare’ first edition of Mary Shelley’s gothic classic has broken the world auction record for a printed work by a woman. Via @guardian
“The glossies really aren’t buying very edgy, challenging short fiction these days,” Chuck Palahniuk says. “That type of fiction doesn’t really have a market anymore.”
ICYMI Books are being challenged across the country; districts in Pennsylvania and Texas dominate the news with their decisions to remove materials. #SchoolLibraryJournal#BannedBooksWeek
RT @NPR The Gilgamesh Dream Tablet is headed back to Iraq. The 3,500-year-old clay artifact, which was looted from Iraq and bought by Hobby Lobby, was seized by authorities who demanded it must be returned.
New York Magazine Cover Store launches today, with 50 of the magazine’s most iconic covers — including the very first 1968 issue of New York Magazine — now available to buy as prints or posters. They start at $19 and are available framed or unframed.
MT @mediagazer Fortune says it will donate 214 ETH from its NFT sale to four journalism non-profits, with each organization getting $165,000 at current prices
MT @mediagazer Disney’s Marvel is suing the heirs of Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, and Gene Colan as it tries to keep full control of Avengers characters under US copyright law. By @eriqgardner.
MT @mediagazer In an email, Facebook tells Australian publishers it has stopped negotiating licensing deals in the country, leaving out broadcaster SBS and smaller publishers. By @byronkaye
MT @michellemanafy 6AM City, a group of local newsletters based in Greenville, South Carolina, has been operating largely under the radar since 2016. It ramped up last week, announcing plans to triple in size from eight to 24 markets by late this year.
MT @BKBF Check out all the amazing discussions and panels happening at the @BKBF this year! Check out all of the in-person and virtual and activities for Bookends events, Children’s Day, and Festival Day. #BKBF
MT @Center4BlackLit Our next virtual event is “Black Women Writers at Work: A Literary Salon” on 9/30/21. Nearly 200 lit lovers have registered already. Our esteemed moderator and panelists are @jbakernyc, @LadeeHubbard, @MorowaYejide, and @ProfHolloway. Please join us!
RT @nationalbook Calling all middle and high school teachers! Registration is open for the 2021 Teen Press Conference, a free virtual event featuring this year’s #NBAwards Finalists for Young People’s Literature and hosted by @kwamealexander.
MT @sljournal Join LJ and SLJ on November 10 for our fifth annual LibraryCon Live! We’re excited to present a day-long celebration of fandom lit, with panels devoted to horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and graphic novels.
MT @diversebooks FULL-TIME REMOTE JOB OPP: We Need Diverse Books is hiring a Development Manager! $55k - $75k/yr with benefits, 8-hour shift, M-F. Diverse applicants encouraged to apply!
RT @wordisdiversity Latinx in Publishing is hiring a remote fall communications intern. Applicants from underrepresented Latinx communities encouraged to apply. Send your resume to latinosinpub@gmail.com
MT @jkhoey 24 interviewees, 14 days. Priceless insights for #femalefounders + #womenentrepreneurs. For free. Starts Sept 27. All you have to do is sign-up (and yes, delighted to have my #BYDN#Networking insights included in this stellar lineup of speakers)
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