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I rememebr when #Publishers and #Agents would throw fits about #Authors having other people send #Submissions in for them.
Yet, they block blind people and deafblind people from sending in submissions by requiring #Capthuas.
I guess they only want sighted submitters. Even if they claim to want to read work from all authors.
Today, I have to decide if I want to send some #Poetry
to a specific outlet.
When I tried a few days ago, It required a blind author blocker - captcha.
Which means, as a blind author, I have to find a random person walking down the street to come in and lay the captcha game so I can submit the poetry.
Not sure how #Publishers think blind authors can successfully, independently, submit writing through #Blind Blocking #Captchas.
#Google Forms is the worst!
Find out more about our recent workshop with #OA #monograph #publishers with an interest in experimental publishing looking at publishing practices and preservation workflows
Read on 
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Copim · Archiving Workflows for Experimental Monographs: an OBF WorkshopOBF colleagues in Experimental Publishing and Archiving & Preservation held a joint workshop with OA monograph publishers with an interest in experimental publishing, looking at publishing practices and preservation workflows.
Vanishing Culture: Preserving the #Library System
https://blog.archive.org/2025/04/07/vanishing-culture-preserving-the-library-system
Based on a simple but catastrophic business decision, the big #publishers are making it impossible for libraries to do their core functions of preservation and enduring access in the digital era. #Netflix, for instance, recently changed its terms of service to explicitly prohibit #archiving, therefore allowing them to remove or change any movie for all subscribers at once
#conservation
#archive
blog.archive.orgVanishing Culture: Preserving the Library System | Internet Archive Blogs
Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishers, Simon & Schuster, and Sourcebooks are advocating for libraries in response to the March 14 executive order dismantling the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
https://global.penguinrandomhouse.com/announcements/publishers-send-letter-to-congress-advocating-for-libraries-imls-funding/
#Publishers #Publishing #Libraries #EndFascism #IMLS
penguinrandomhouse.comPublishers Send Letter to Congress Advocating for Libraries & IMLS FundingPublishers Send Letter to Congress Advocating for Libraries & IMLS Funding #TeamPRH
Springer Nature Releases First Annual Report As a Public Company https://annualreport.springernature.com/2024/pdfs/Springer_Nature_Annual_report_24_FULL.pdf ||| Summary https://annualreport.springernature.com/2024/ #publishers
#AI bots are destroying OpenAccess by #
AI companies are hard at work destroying the websites of #libraries, #archives, non-profit organizations, and scholarly #publishers.
https://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2025/03/ai-bots-are-destroying-open-access.html?m=1
go-to-hellman.blogspot.comAI bots are destroying Open AccessThere's a war going on on the Internet. AI companies with billions to burn are hard at work destroying the websites of libraries, archives, ...
Search Engine Journal: Google Provides Timeline To Improve Publishers’ Search Visibility. “Google has publicly committed to December 31 as a deadline for improving how independent publishers appear in search results. This timeline emerged during an exchange on X between Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, and several concerned publishers.” I will be very happy if this happens. […]
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MIT Press: A note on LibGen and the unauthorized use of our authors’ work. “We want to be clear: The MIT Press has not licensed any of our books or journal articles for LLM training purposes, nor have we granted permission for any such use. However, we are well aware that many MIT Press publications have ended up in pirated training data sets. We share the deep distress of our authors whose […]
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#Publishers say that #BookTok wants #escapism. Now the grim, brutal new #HungerGames #novel is blowing #readers’ minds.
https://slate.com/culture/2025/03/sunrise-reaping-hunger-games-suzanne-collins-booktok.html
Slate · It’s Grim. It’s Gruesome. It’s the Opposite of What Publishers Say Everyone Wants to Read. It’s a Huge Hit.
#Publishers fear that #libraries will stop buying books on #DEI topics.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/books-publishing/2025/03/21/academic-publishers-braced-slowdown-trump-dei-purge
But the article offers no evidence that the publisher fears are justified. Has anyone seen evidence libraries are cutting back, or plan to cut back, on new titles on DEI topics?
Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and JobsAcademic Publishers Braced for Slowdown as Trump DEI Purge BitesDefunding of diversity-related research may deter American university libraries from buying titles in contentious topic areas, publishers fear.
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The funny - or rather sad - part in all this is how big #games #publishers have shit the bed and are now complaining that we won't all lie down in dookie.
They wanted to drag people along for the ride and when people said no to their predatory bullshit, they started complaining about pricing. Now it's not $70, but $80 and even $90 for a piece of escapism. In this #economy? Pfft.
#Bonuses must be paid to #executives, but the quality of the product must be diminished in order to facilitate that.
The stagnant #gaming industry and its covetous #capitalism is to blame here. Large #publishers have basically led an entire #industry into a race to the bottom.
There's a history of predatory contracts with #gamesstudios, consolidations, firings, creating games equivalent of pink slime, micropayments, "live services", etc.
Why even play new games, when older ones - despite their low poly feel - are higher quality?
PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/pc-gamers-spend-92-percent-of-their-time-on-older-games-oh-and-there-are-apparently-908-million-of-us-now/
PC Gamer · PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now
Not impressed with legacy #publishers, in this case #Brill.
- Publisher's website of (discontinued) journal has no content anymore: https://brill.com/view/journals/hew/hew-overview.xml
- #DOI to article does not resolve: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157018606779068306
For purely academic purposes of verification, I was able to ascertain that the paper exists and would be available from alternative sources...
BrillHistoriography East and West"Historiography East and West" published on by Brill.
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Update. "#DOGE order leads to journal cancellations by U.S. agricultural library"
https://www.science.org/content/article/doge-order-leads-journal-cancellations-u-s-agricultural-library
"The #USDA on Friday told staff members it has canceled subscriptions carried by its National Agricultural Library as part of a drive by President Donald #Trump’s administration to cut federal spending. The move appears to drop nearly 400 of the library’s roughly 2000 journals, including many prominent in various agricultural subfields —but curiously none from the world’s three largest scientific publishers, all of which are #ForProfit. USDA staff members depicted the move as hasty, indiscriminate slashing…Studies of journal subscription fees indicate that on average, scientific #SocietyPublishers charge less than such for-profit companies."
PS: (1) Of course the best ag research should be #OpenAccess. But that's a goal, not the current reality, and while we work for that goal, policymaking agencies still need access the best research. (2) If efficiency requires budget cuts, why focus the cuts on journals from #nonprofit #publishers, which on average are lower in price and higher in quality?
Report: DOGE Order Leads to Journal Cancellation by U.S. Agricultural Library https://www.infodocket.com/2025/03/18/report-doge-order-leads-to-journal-cancellation-by-u-s-agricultural-library/ #libraries #scholcomm #publishers
Seeking journal #editors to participate in the #IDAHO_project interviews!
We are launching a series of #interviews with #journal editors and #publishers to explore the strategies & initiatives they have in place to support authors without strong ties to #academia
Editors from all disciplines can participate
40 minute
If you would like to share your perspective, please get in touch
projects.tib.euSeeking Journal Editors to Participate in the IDAHO Project Interviews
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The #USgovernment is one of the world’s biggest #publishers, & its #research on everything from carbon emissions to infant mortality is conducted on a scale that few private institutions can match. Kellam said that she’d participated in a small data-preservation effort during #Trump’s first term, but had never seen anything like the frenzy that ignited in late Jan, when the #CDC began removing #information…. (It’s since been restored by means of a #TRO.)
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Update. "A Call for Harm Reduction Strategies"
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/a-call-for-harm-reduction-strategies
"The new US presidential administration has launched an unprecedented assault on research and higher education. This isn’t just collateral damage from wide-ranging realignment of budgets, which would be bad enough, but an orchestrated attack on academic freedom, research funding, and the institutional autonomy that underpins intellectual progress…Resistance is most effective when collective action amplifies individual efforts rather than occurring in isolation. This means fostering more frequent and open dialogue across all sectors of the academic and research community [e.g. #libraries and #publishers]."
Katina Magazine | Annual ReviewsA Call for Harm Reduction StrategiesThe Trump administration has launched an orchestrated attack on academic freedom, research funding, and the institutional autonomy that underpins intellectual progress. We must act now, together.