@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-04-08 15:45:38
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Amazon: Ältere Kindles dürfen keine E-Books mehr herunterladen
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-04-08 15:45:38
@kctipton@mas.to2026-05-07 20:06:57
Report shows banned non-fiction books doubled over last school year in US | Books | The Guardian #bannedbooks
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-08 00:41:26
Anthropic hired Google’s
book-scanning chief to
cut up and digitize hired Google’s book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize “all the books in the world.”
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-pr…
@tiago@social.skewed.de2026-03-08 08:03:28
In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.
13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.
The law didn't change.
https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pir…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-03-07 16:26:03
Amazon withdraws from the Paris book festival, after the French booksellers' association said it will boycott the festival in protest at Amazon's involvement (Emma Loffhagen/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/ma…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-03-08 04:00:13
bookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005)
Two bipartite networks representing people and the books they have interacted with, from the BookCrossing website. Nodes represent users and books, and an edge connects a user to a book they have interacted with. The file book_implicit is unweighted; edge weights in book_ratings give the rating a user assigned to a book.
This network has 445801 nodes and 1149739 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Weighted
@bourgwick@heads.social2026-03-07 23:53:59
learned today that mass market paperbacks sometimes had full color advertising in the middle. #books
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2026-03-08 20:32:53
"Assessing Academic Library Collections for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" by Karen Kohn @ New Books Network #podcast
https://newbooksnetwork.com/assessing-…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-04-08 17:16:07
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org2026-04-06 16:47:01
@kctipton@mas.to2026-03-08 00:35:00
My dad made the biggest motorized gold jewelled egg in the world. The obsession would destroy his marriage, family and fortune | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/07/paul-kutchinsky-egg-obsession-destroy-marriage-fam…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-04-07 13:59:33
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-05 22:02:50
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-05-08 22:43:16
RE: https://mefi.social/@MissConstrue/116540178337660516
This perspective is debatable in the books, but the movies definitely foreground it.
Good post.
@shriramk@mastodon.social2026-03-07 18:32:43
Reading back-issues of the LRB, and this article ("Shahdenfreude") from 1980 — (only mildly) a review of books written about Iran in the late 1970s — seems pretty timely.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v02/n12/robert-graham/shahdenfreude
@fgraver@hcommons.social2026-03-05 05:45:34
From myth to machine: The technological evolution of storytelling https://bigthink.com/books/the-technological-evolution-of-human-storytelling/
@Archivist@social.linux.pizza2026-05-01 17:40:09
There is currently a bundle of books from one of my favorite author of fantasy novels, Mercedes Lackey on Humble Bundle. For my queer folks out there, she is one of the few authors that cast an openly gay man as a main character in her books, in the early 90s. The novels are great and her universe is amazing. If you read on your phone or e-reader and are in search of great fantasy novels, you can pick that all up here:
@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.social2026-04-07 16:42:47
Louis Braille’s Earlier Ideas, Ranked:
7. Musical Reading
Braille got Parisian street performers to “play” books by assigning each letter a note on the 🪗
The ensuing cacophony was unlistenable. However, it paved the way for experimental, atonal music which people now claim they enjoy to sound sophisticated
https://…
@cheryanne@aus.social2026-04-07 12:16:30
Talk Lit, Get Hit
The book podcast for recovering book snobs where we read viral books the internet won't shut up about and rate them lit or shit...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/talk-lit-get-hit/
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-08 00:20:03
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2026-05-06 04:59:32
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-03-07 02:09:53
@…
Single user mode is an option at the boot screen.
<https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/faq/#forgot-root-pw> is wrong (sorry)…
@jerome@jasette.facil.services2026-05-08 03:36:23
Pinocchio is weirder than you remember
https://storica.club/blog/pinocchio-in-italian/
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2026-05-07 14:30:07
Books
@david@boles.xyz2026-04-08 15:58:42
The Rental Life: What Happens When You Own Nothing and They Own You
In July 2009, Amazon reached into the Kindle devices of thousands of customers and deleted copies of George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm. The company had discovered that the third-party publisher selling those editions lacked the rights to distribute them in the United States. Amazon issued refunds. Then it erased the books. A high school student in Michigan lost his annotated copy mid-assignment.
@trochee@dair-community.social2026-05-01 13:53:05
This is a really exciting list of new books
And both Ann Leckie and Martha Wells have entries! Always here for more Radch and Murderbot.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2524887-the-best-new-science-fiction-books-of-may-2026/
@servelan@newsie.social2026-04-04 20:59:50
A librarian was fired for refusing to hide LGBTQ books from kids. Then something amazing happened. - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/04/a-librarian-was-fired-for-refusing-to-hide-lgbtq-books-from-kids-then-something-amazing-happened/
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-03-05 18:00:13
If you are a Kobo Libra Colour user who, like me, makes annotations (typed, not drawn) in books, you may find it frustrating to lose those notes when returning library books.
These steps work to allow you to export those annotations:
https://www.reddit.com/r/kobo/comments/1bh
@billbert@mastodon.social2026-04-07 20:43:32
Hammering through the Game Changers books. Finally made it to TLG. I was honestly teary-eyed by the end of RM. If Troy and Harris are the ‘other’ couple next season on #HeatedRivalry because of those books’ concurrence I could dig it. ❤️
1/2
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2026-05-06 05:15:23
The social media figure “Rathbone” became (or always has been) a horrible antisemite. Not sure how many people here are familiar with his videos, but I must admit that a few years back I liked them. They were often provocative and didn't speak too kindly on Israel's actions, using words like “apartheid”, “imperialism”, “zionism”, etc. The account didn't influence me on my knowledge of these terms, the books I read and my political activism did, but it certainly popped up once or twi…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-05 13:50:48
Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, and Cengage, alongside novelist Scott Turow, file a class-action copyright lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/books/publisher…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-02-09 00:00:07
douban: Douban friendship network (2009)
A friendship network among users on Douban.com, a Chinese website providing recommendations for books, music, and movies.
This network has 154908 nodes and 327162 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/douban…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-05-08 13:27:37
Most Concerning Question Mark Cowboys Face With Rookie Malachi Lawrence https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/most-concerning-question-mark-dallas-cowboys-face-rookie-malachi-lawrence
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2026-03-04 07:34:55
"Slow Librarianship: Reflections and Practices"
https://litwinbooks.com/books/slow-librarianship/
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-03-06 06:45:39
Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security: Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money.
Open source registries are in financial peril, a co-founder of an open source security foundation warned after inspecting their books. And it's not just the bandwidth costs that are killing them.
🫴
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-04-07 22:45:38
Amazon says Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier won't be able to access the Kindle Store from May 20; downloaded books can still be read (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/908302/amazon-…
@cheryanne@aus.social2026-05-09 00:50:14
CBCA Shadow Judging Podcast
Young readers in conversation with the creators of the CBCA Shortlisted books in the 2026 Older and Younger Reader Book of the Year categories...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/cbca-shadow-judging/
@paulwermer@sfba.social2026-05-03 21:51:15
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2026-05-03 21:51:15
@awinkler@openbiblio.social2026-02-23 22:16:43
Katherine Rundell betont im Kontext der 'reading crisis' die Bedeutung von Schulbibliotheken und Schulbibliothekar:innen: https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2026/feb/23/will-we-ever-read-books-again-podcast
@UP8@mastodon.social2026-05-01 20:32:56
Been up cleaning at Room 23 and returning library books so I took a good look at this bookshelf
#photo #photography #bookshelf
@fgraver@hcommons.social2026-05-04 04:49:09
Will human minds still be special in an age of AI?
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/03/will-human-minds-still-be-special-in-an-age-of-ai?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2026-04-02 05:15:53
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-04-29 17:42:04
from my link log —
The inside story of Terry Pratchett's Discworld, by those who knew him.
https://inews.co.uk/culture/books/inside-story-terry-pratchett-discworld-those-knew-him-4373899
saved 2026-04-29
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-02-09 00:30:40
A Tow Center probe found that GOP-aligned Metric Media filed 9K FOIA requests across the US in the past year, often about culture-war issues like banned books (Miranda Green/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/pink-slime-networks-are-weapon…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2026-04-07 11:34:54
"OER as Dynamic Digital Commons: Toward Maintenance and Governance"
https://doi.org/10.31274/jlsc.20076
"Academic libraries have been instrumental in supporting the creation and adoption of open educational resources (
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizza2026-05-06 22:19:44
The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room has put 3.5 million pages of released documents, bound together in 3,437 volumes of books, on display in a new exhibit in Tribeca, NY.
A Library Dedicated Solely to the Epstein Files Is Opening in New York:
https://www.
@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-02-25 20:00:26
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot2026-04-05 17:30:31
I'm reading an Evelyn Anthony book, The Defector, and I'm gripped. This specific copy used to be on the bookshelf along with many others by her in the room I stayed at in my grandparents's house, and I used to think, aged eight or so, that they looked the most boring books on earth. Now decades later I'm really enjoying them. I think this change in perspective and growing appreciation of things is one the aspects of getting older that I really treasure.
@salrandolph@zirk.us2026-03-05 15:31:30
I’m at AWP this weekend with copies of my book, The Uses of Art, tabling for dispersed holdings. If you’re in Baltimore, come say hi (table 536, catty-corner from Ivy Bookstore).
If you can’t be there, we’re celebrating with a 25% discount on all the books in the dispersed holdings web shop (http://dispersedholdings.net
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.social2026-04-04 08:00:13
Jetzt geht's los mit der Känguru-Rebellion. Extra mit nach China geschleppt /cc @… #Chongqing @…@…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-05-05 13:50:35
Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, and Cengage, alongside novelist Scott Turow, file a class-action copyright lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/books/publisher…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-03-05 19:05:40
Daniel Jeremiah's top 50: 2026 NFL Draft prospect rankings 3.0 https://www.nfl.com/news/daniel-jeremiah-s-top-50-2026-nfl-draft-prospect-rankings-3-0
@detondev@social.linux.pizza2026-04-29 10:30:08
@dde@social.tchncs.de2026-04-04 09:29:35
In der vergangenen Woche ist mal so richtig viel passiert.
Ich durfte einen Vortrag auf den Chemnitzer Linux-Tagen zum Thema "Von der Idee zum (Fach-)Buch" halten.
https://changelog.deimeke.ruhr/2026/03/28/ideezumbuch-20260328/
Vielleicht inte…
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2026-04-03 19:53:41
Jeg er næsten færdig med en kort historie om Italien og det giver stort indtryk om lige præcis hvor imponerende EU er efter tusinde år af mere eller mindre konstant krig i Europa.
Jeg får også lyst til at starte en ny europæisk bogklub til at lære om vores fælles europæisk naboer samt læse nogle gode bŸger jeg ellers ville aldrig har kommer til. Nogen der har lyst til at komme og læse med i hovedstaden?
Eng:
I’ve almost finished a short history of Italy, and it really brings home just how impressive the EU is after a thousand years of more or less constant war in Europe.
I’m now also keen to join/start a European book club to learn about our fellow European neighbours and read some good books I’d otherwise never get round to. Anyone fancy joining me in or around Copenhagen?
#bookstodon #bogstodon #dkæs
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-03-06 22:00:08
douban: Douban friendship network (2009)
A friendship network among users on Douban.com, a Chinese website providing recommendations for books, music, and movies.
This network has 154908 nodes and 327162 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/douban…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-04-10 13:54:29
"Just buy printed books"
Just build an annex to my house to hold the 4,000 books my wife has on her Kindle
(By the by we have plenty of printed books, probably 500–1,000 or so, and yes we regularly donate books too.)
@bourgwick@heads.social2026-03-02 21:23:51
writing books to file anthropic claims to write books with
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-05-05 00:39:06
RE: https://mastodon.social/@appassionato/116516208065229826
A Dialogue of the Senses: Designing Interaction with the Body in Mind | Books Gateway | MIT Press
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@ruari@velocipederider.com2026-05-03 12:57:16
RE: https://velocipederider.com/@ruari/116504745316015826
That passage is from "The Silver Chair", one of the later books from "The Chronicles or Narnia".
The first Narnian book is from 1950, which is around the timeframe when b…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social2026-03-02 12:18:42
Content warning:
Greetings, myth lovers!
Since I can't log into @… because the server seems to be down, I'm inviting you to share your favourite #mythology-themed read for
@gwire@mastodon.social2026-04-27 19:14:17
I've been playing some Starfield, just routinely picking up books when I see them.
So then I bought an apartment in Akila, researched "Decorating", and built a bookcase.
And then I discover that, unlike the data pad holders, the bookcases don't have the ability to store books.
So I just have an empty bookcase and a pile of books on the floor next it.
@jake4480@c.im2026-03-02 14:40:00
Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, was born today (March 2) in 1904. Growing up in the 80s, Seuss books were huge for me. I'm still a massive fan, and have a decent amount of Seuss collectibles 😂
My wife asked the other day what my favorites of his are, and I'd never thought about it. I love all of em from Cats to Fish, but for me, it's these two. I read these CONSTANTLY as a kid.
#Seuss
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu2026-02-12 10:08:27
These books are currently on sale at the Readino Independent eBook shop for £0.99 each. Which is nice, right?
[The store caught my attention because I noticed that the FBReader guy(s) are running it, and that they've recently implemented Readium LCP DRM support in the FBReader app.]
Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition
@laimis@mstdn.social2026-03-30 21:14:06
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-03-01 23:43:13
Our world is run by monsters. Like, literal monsters.
I've seen plenty of films and books where the "monster" might harm or destroy only a handful of humans before being vanquished, and yet, our governments have killed how many?
The people in charge have done damage to our world we cannot reverse.
The real monsters live among us, not in stories or fantasy.
How do we end these monsters?
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-03-24 15:11:20
This is actually not too far off from a pamphlet I wrote at my community college as an experiment in "turning assignments into creative writing." I was taking a religion class, so I decided to create one. I was working in a group and by the end we had developed 3 sects of the religion and we each talked about our sect and how it related and differed from the original text.
I also handed out pamphlets at a mall, half as part of a psychology class (because why not find a way to reuse my material) and part as an experiment to see how long it would take to get kicked out of said mall. (The answer was bout 15 minutes, if I remember correctly.)
Somewhere between there and here, the books "The Evolution of God" and "Non-Zero" came out (written, interestingly but probably unrelated, by someone who lived in the town with that mall where I handed out those flyers). These books both have heavily overlapping ideas with the original pamphlet (lost, which may not be the worst thing since it was full of spelling and grammar errors).
But both of those books had a decidedly theistic flavor, though, I think, they were more generally liberal. The whole #CultPunk thing feels like a missing piece to something that's been bouncing around in my head for... uh... some years. But not so much at the front of my mind.
It was actually in the hospital, on pain killers and ketamine, that this all came rushing back. Perhaps that's the right state of mind for such things.
@al3x@hachyderm.io2026-03-03 14:52:04
I read that we lost the ability to stay focused reading long articles. And I believe it is partially true.
I also believe that books that could’ve been at best an article are these days 300 pages. And articles that might communicate an idea vaguely are now thousands of words long for the sake of art (and for the author to get paid as I assume filling in a site or magazine with short articles would be more expensive).
@seav@en.osm.town2026-02-13 06:56:03
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-03-04 16:00:13
bookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005)
Two bipartite networks representing people and the books they have interacted with, from the BookCrossing website. Nodes represent users and books, and an edge connects a user to a book they have interacted with. The file book_implicit is unweighted; edge weights in book_ratings give the rating a user assigned to a book.
This network has 445801 nodes and 1149739 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Weighted
@fgraver@hcommons.social2026-05-06 15:50:10
I’ll admit it. I can’t wait to see The Odyssey this summer—it seems like a perfect summer blockbuster.
But now I really want someone—Greta Gerwig? Katherine Bigelow? Other suggestions?—to make a movie of Clare North’s Song of Penelope books. It would be very cool if it were with the same cast in the main roles, too.
@bourgwick@heads.social2026-05-02 20:45:44
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-03-06 06:45:39
Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security: Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money.
Open source registries are in financial peril, a co-founder of an open source security foundation warned after inspecting their books. And it's not just the bandwidth costs that are killing them.
🫴
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot2026-04-25 11:45:38
Go to the library to pick up my reservation, the latest Ken Follett, and pretty much inevitably come home with a couple more books. Despite The Line of Beauty being "A classic of our time", I've never heard of it, so that will be a gap in my reading knowledge filled. #books #bookstodon
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-04-15 10:46:00
Spotify launches a feature to buy physical books in the US and UK, powered by Bookshop.org, and expands its Page Match tool to support 30 additional languages (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/spotify-l…
@laimis@mstdn.social2026-03-30 21:14:06
@seav@en.osm.town2026-02-13 06:56:03
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-04-09 07:15:51
Euer treuer Kindle hat euch jahrelang begleitet? Amazon findet: 14 Jahre sind genug. Ab dem 20. Mai dürfen ältere Kindles keine E-Books mehr herunterladen.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11247180?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-04-30 10:20:49
How The Fast and the Furious franchise, which grossed $7B across 10 films, tells the story of Hollywood, pioneering diverse casting and technical innovations (Hua Hsu/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/how-the-fast…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-03-01 06:00:14
bookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005)
Two bipartite networks representing people and the books they have interacted with, from the BookCrossing website. Nodes represent users and books, and an edge connects a user to a book they have interacted with. The file book_implicit is unweighted; edge weights in book_ratings give the rating a user assigned to a book.
This network has 445801 nodes and 1149739 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Weighted
@cheryanne@aus.social2026-02-13 08:24:59
Irish Books
Expert guests get to the heart of books you know and give you ideas of what contemporary Irish literature to read next...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/irish-books/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-03-25 21:40:44
How The London Review of Books has achieved an average 6.8% YoY revenue growth since the pandemic through marketing and by focusing on revenue per copy (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/magazin…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-04-04 09:00:13
bookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005)
Two bipartite networks representing people and the books they have interacted with, from the BookCrossing website. Nodes represent users and books, and an edge connects a user to a book they have interacted with. The file book_implicit is unweighted; edge weights in book_ratings give the rating a user assigned to a book.
This network has 445801 nodes and 1149739 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Weighted
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-03-03 23:58:11
@bourgwick@heads.social2026-03-14 20:31:39
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-02-26 11:35:52
Ann Godoff, a top Random House and Penguin Press editor who cultivated the careers of dozens of novelists and nonfiction authors over 30 years, died at age 76 (Sam Roberts/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/books/ann-godoff-dead.html
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-04-26 22:00:05
polbooks: Political books network (2004)
A network of books about U.S. politics published close to the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and sold by Amazon.com. Edges between books represent frequent copurchasing of those books by the same buyers. The network was compiled by V. Krebs and is unpublished.
This network has 105 nodes and 441 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Metadata
@bourgwick@heads.social2026-05-02 22:51:36
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-02-20 19:35:58
Newspaper executives' emphasis on reader data doesn't serve subscribers who look to editorial staff to guide them to potential new areas of interest (John Williams/The Atlantic)
http…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-03-26 22:00:04
polbooks: Political books network (2004)
A network of books about U.S. politics published close to the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and sold by Amazon.com. Edges between books represent frequent copurchasing of those books by the same buyers. The network was compiled by V. Krebs and is unpublished.
This network has 105 nodes and 441 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Metadata
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-02-20 20:30:59
After backlash, Microsoft deleted a blog post written in November 2024 that critics said encouraged developers to pirate Harry Potter books to train AI models (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-04-22 05:00:04
polbooks: Political books network (2004)
A network of books about U.S. politics published close to the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and sold by Amazon.com. Edges between books represent frequent copurchasing of those books by the same buyers. The network was compiled by V. Krebs and is unpublished.
This network has 105 nodes and 441 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Metadata
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-04-15 10:45:51
Spotify launches a feature to buy physical books in the US and UK, powered by Bookshop.org, and expands its Page Match tool to support 30 additional languages (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/spotify-l…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-03-11 15:00:04
polbooks: Political books network (2004)
A network of books about U.S. politics published close to the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and sold by Amazon.com. Edges between books represent frequent copurchasing of those books by the same buyers. The network was compiled by V. Krebs and is unpublished.
This network has 105 nodes and 441 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Metadata
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-04-03 02:35:56
HarperCollins partnered with AI animation studio Toonstar to adapt its books into YouTube series, starting with Friendship List by Lisa Greenwald (Sam Spratford/Publishers Weekly)
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-04-12 17:55:31
Most major book publishers lack clear rules on AI use, frustrating authors and readers and raising fears that AI-generated books will slip past editors (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/books/shy-girl-ai-publishing.html
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-04-11 21:31:02
Survey: 64% of US adults read a print book in the past year, down from 72% in 2011; 31% read an e-book, vs. 17% in 2011, while 26% have listened to an audiobook (William Bishop/Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/shor…
