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  1. RE: openbiblio.social/@IBI_HU/1172

    Brauchte einen Moment, um das Papier zu finden, weil der Artikel bei libess natürlich hinter ner Paywall ist.

    arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322

    "We estimate that $15.08 billion (in 2025 USD) was spent globally on APCs between 2019 and 2025. Adjusted for inflation, annual spending quadrupled from $0.9 billion in 2019 to $3.7 billion in 2025, with >85% concentrated among a few large publishers."

    Absurd!

    #Publishing #Preprint #Research #Science #OA #OpenAccess #APC

  2. RE: gardenstate.social/@glecharles

    Worthwhile reading... ”You don’t need “artificial intelligence” to align your sales and marketing operations to work more effectively; you need the political will to tear down silos and eliminate vanity metrics, and the market intelligence to understand how buyers...” #publishing

  3. Via Becky Spratford at Reader Advisories for ALL: "Publishers Are Getting Nasty Now That Libraries Are Finally Fighting Back on Unfair Pricing"

    As always, very much worth reading.

    #Libraries #Publishing

    raforall.blogspot.com/2026/09/

  4. Well, it's official: I now have an LLC! 🥳

    Now to have a logo made, and figure out how to add the publisher's name to my books.

    (I understand the publisher needs to be listed as the owner on the ISBNs. Fortunately, I need to buy more before my next book comes out, so that's easy enough.)

    #WritingCommunity #WritersLife #Writer #Author #Publishing #LLCOwner

  5. ‘I Like My Big Rat Wife’: Meet the People Using Chatbots to Write Custom Fiction

    When Petra Ferraz de Novaes isn’t at work, she’s probably lost in a fantasy crafted with the help…
    #NewsBeep #News #Artificialintelligence #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Books #CA #Canada #chatbots #fantasy #Fiction #OpenAI #Publishing #reading #Technology
    newsbeep.com/ca/895513/

  6. Schon angemeldet zur Veranstaltung der Publishing User Group Hamburg, wenn Prof. Nora Bilz erläutert, was »Inklusives Design« ist? Am kommenden Donnerstag, 17. September, 19 Uhr, online, kostenlos.

    Infos & Anmeldung:

    pughh64.eventbrite.de

    #Publishing #InclusiveDesign #InklusivesDesign
    #a11y #accessibility #Barrierefreiheit

  7. A little something of interest

    An interesting idea to continue to try and extrapolate and expand on: In America we burn up ideas too quickly. We get rid of them by immediately putting them into practice. We only know one thing to do with an idea: apply it; convert it into something useable. And it dies right there in the conversion. It loses generative power. (James Hillman, pg, 142 We've had a hundred years of psychotherapy and the world's getting worse.) What is the goal in 60 pages or more?1 Or the goal in this or […]

    stonecorpse.com/2026/09/13/a-l

  8. A little something of interest

    An interesting idea to continue to try and extrapolate and expand on: In America we burn up ideas too quickly. We get rid of them by immediately putting them into practice. We only know one thing to do with an idea: apply it; convert it into something useable. And it dies right there in the conversion. It loses generative power. (James Hillman, pg, 142 We've had a hundred years of psychotherapy and the world's getting worse.) What is the goal in 60 pages or more?1 Or the goal in this or […]

    stonecorpse.com/2026/09/13/a-l

  9. A little something of interest

    An interesting idea to continue to try and extrapolate and expand on: In America we burn up ideas too quickly. We get rid of them by immediately putting them into practice. We only know one thing to do with an idea: apply it; convert it into something useable. And it dies right there in the conversion. It loses generative power. (James Hillman, pg, 142 We've had a hundred years of psychotherapy and the world's getting worse.) What is the goal in 60 pages or more?1 Or the goal in this or […]

    stonecorpse.com/2026/09/13/a-l

  10. A little something of interest

    An interesting idea to continue to try and extrapolate and expand on: In America we burn up ideas too quickly. We get rid of them by immediately putting them into practice. We only know one thing to do with an idea: apply it; convert it into something useable. And it dies right there in the conversion. It loses generative power. (James Hillman, pg, 142 We've had a hundred years of psychotherapy and the world's getting worse.) What is the goal in 60 pages or more?1 Or the goal in this or […]

    stonecorpse.com/2026/09/13/a-l

  11. A little something of interest

    An interesting idea to continue to try and extrapolate and expand on: In America we burn up ideas too quickly. We get rid of them by immediately putting them into practice. We only know one thing to do with an idea: apply it; convert it into something useable. And it dies right there in the conversion. It loses generative power. (James Hillman, pg, 142 We've had a hundred years of psychotherapy and the world's getting worse.) What is the goal in 60 pages or more?1 Or the goal in this or […]

    stonecorpse.com/2026/09/13/a-l

  12. Submitted stories to seven literary publications today. Feel like I’m at least trying.

    #Writing #Publishing

  13. Publishers Weekly: Ingram’s AI Rollout Is a Success. “Ingram Content Group began rolling out AI across its platforms in May 2025, and just 15 months later, the company’s chief commercial and content officer says it has transformed the way Ingram approaches metadata, advertising, and marketing, while helping accelerate the introduction of new services.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/12/publishers-weekly-ingrams-ai-rollout-is-a-success/
  14. Publishers Weekly: Ingram’s AI Rollout Is a Success. “Ingram Content Group began rolling out AI across its platforms in May 2025, and just 15 months later, the company’s chief commercial and content officer says it has transformed the way Ingram approaches metadata, advertising, and marketing, while helping accelerate the introduction of new services.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/12/publishers-weekly-ingrams-ai-rollout-is-a-success/
  15. Publishers Weekly: Ingram’s AI Rollout Is a Success. “Ingram Content Group began rolling out AI across its platforms in May 2025, and just 15 months later, the company’s chief commercial and content officer says it has transformed the way Ingram approaches metadata, advertising, and marketing, while helping accelerate the introduction of new services.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/12/publishers-weekly-ingrams-ai-rollout-is-a-success/
  16. Publishers Weekly: Ingram’s AI Rollout Is a Success. “Ingram Content Group began rolling out AI across its platforms in May 2025, and just 15 months later, the company’s chief commercial and content officer says it has transformed the way Ingram approaches metadata, advertising, and marketing, while helping accelerate the introduction of new services.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/12/publishers-weekly-ingrams-ai-rollout-is-a-success/
  17. Publishers Weekly: Ingram’s AI Rollout Is a Success. “Ingram Content Group began rolling out AI across its platforms in May 2025, and just 15 months later, the company’s chief commercial and content officer says it has transformed the way Ingram approaches metadata, advertising, and marketing, while helping accelerate the introduction of new services.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/12/publishers-weekly-ingrams-ai-rollout-is-a-success/
  18. #Authors, you’ll benefit from reading the post “Your Creative Team Wants You to #Stop #Formatting and Just #Write the Darn #Book,” by editor Sandra Wendel and designer Paul Nylander, on the blog of @janefriedman, a leader in #publishing. janefriedman.com/your-creative

  19. Okay, I have managed to make a workable refloable eBook i Affinity - BUT the paragraphs look wrong whenever I export it as ePub. I have tried adjusting paragraph breaks, removing all formatting, reducing tabs, losing my mind, starting over, moving entire document as docs and pdf directly to affinity, plain text mode, and nothing works...

    Help?

    #Affinity #help #ePub #publishing #formatting

  20. Okay, I have managed to make a workable refloable eBook i Affinity - BUT the paragraphs look wrong whenever I export it as ePub. I have tried adjusting paragraph breaks, removing all formatting, reducing tabs, losing my mind, starting over, moving entire document as docs and pdf directly to affinity, plain text mode, and nothing works...

    Help?

    #Affinity #help #ePub #publishing #formatting

  21. Okay, I have managed to make a workable refloable eBook i Affinity - BUT the paragraphs look wrong whenever I export it as ePub. I have tried adjusting paragraph breaks, removing all formatting, reducing tabs, losing my mind, starting over, moving entire document as docs and pdf directly to affinity, plain text mode, and nothing works...

    Help?

    #Affinity #help #ePub #publishing #formatting

  22. Okay, I have managed to make a workable refloable eBook i Affinity - BUT the paragraphs look wrong whenever I export it as ePub. I have tried adjusting paragraph breaks, removing all formatting, reducing tabs, losing my mind, starting over, moving entire document as docs and pdf directly to affinity, plain text mode, and nothing works...

    Help?

    #Affinity #help #ePub #publishing #formatting