With 15,000 locations across the U.S., the coffee chain is betting it can convince electric vehicle owners that it’s the perfect place to charge up. (Literally!)
“Data licensing” - that doesn’t sound good! Per the NYT, Here’s what Mr. Musk is projecting for Twitter’s finances over the next few years, according to a pitch deck he presented to investors.
Alphabet unit Google has signed deals to pay more than 300 publishers in Germany, France and four other EU countries for their news and will roll out a tool to make it easier for others to sign up too, the company told Reuters.
Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment Inc. has acquired Redbox Entertainment Inc., a movies-to-rent streaming service that went public through a blank-check company last year, another sign that once-booming SPACs and the deals they fueled are losing steam.
A survey by The Bookseller showed 89% of staffers had experienced stress during the course of their work over the last year, while 68% reported burnout and 64% said there was an impact on their mental health.
Christine Lysnewycz Holbert—the director of independent nonprofit poetry publisher Lost Horse Press and a daughter of Ukrainian refugees who came to the U.S. after WWII—discusses the press’s Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series.
HT @BISG Several textbook printers in Karnataka, India, temporarily suspended operations due to non-availability of raw materials + rising costs. For weeks, a number of printers have been unable to secure the paper needed to print these books from mills.
“Our partners and supporters are critical in moving the needle to ultimately bring an end to book bans, said Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. “It’s time that policymakers understand the severity of this issue.” #UniteAgainstBookBans
MT @BookRiot This week’s book censorship news includes challenges in Vermont, Maine, Texas, and more. That, plus a guide to school board elections in four states (with more to come)
The longlist for the Women’s Prize Discoveries programme has been revealed, in a year that sees entries from women aged between 65 to 74 exceed those in the 18-24 category.
I thought I was writing fiction in The Handmaid’s Tale…. I stopped writing [Handmaid’s Tale] several times…I considered it too far-fetched. Silly me. Theocratic dictatorships do not lie only in the distant past: There are a number of them on the planet today. What is to prevent the US from becoming one?
HT @rharington A CC license is irrevocable; it says so right in the license. But it also says you can change your mind and distribute the work differently, or not at all. What does this mean? #copyright
RT @michellemanafy Buzzfeed came closer than almost anyone in news to being able to compete with Facebook, Google & Amazon—advertising’s contemporary oligopolists—for the sort of scale that might yield viability in the battle for ad dollars, but not close enough.
MT @MarkLevineNYC Calling all community orgs in NYC: If your non-profit serves a high-needs neighborhood, especially one with limited testing capacity, you can sign up to distribute free home test kits in your community. (NYC how has a huge supply to give out).
If you can’t find infant formula for your baby, in the wake of Abbott Nutrition’s voluntary recall of certain powdered infant formulas, check this new HHS fact sheet with resources for locating safe formula.
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