@fanf@mendeddrum.org2024-06-06 16:42:01
@wmclark@publishing.social2024-06-07 12:20:22
Authors drive boom in US marketing demand as they seek help to plug books | Publishing | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jun/07/book-promotion-publishing-marketing-demand
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2024-06-06 03:30:33
Sources: Costco plans to stop selling books regularly at US stores year-round from January 2025, and will instead sell them during the holiday shopping period (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/books/c
@benb@osintua.eu2024-06-07 14:45:17
He Came Back. Tracking down perpetrators of sexual violence in Russia's war: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/07/he-came-back.html
@simoncox@seocommunity.social2024-06-07 07:39:14
Is this the planet fighting back? First Orcas tipping yachts over, now whales arming themselves with crossbows. What next?
I’m going to have to read this to find out…
https://c.im/@BBC/112572865341880693
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2024-06-07 17:00:07
bag_of_words: Bag of words (2008)
Five text collections in the form of bags-of-words, i.e. a bipartite document–word network. Left nodes are documents and right nodes are words. Edge weights are multiplicities. .
This network has 67963 nodes and 3710420 edges.
Tags: Informational, Text, Bipartite, Weighted, Metadata
https…
@cheryanne@aus.social2024-06-06 07:00:21
Better Down Back
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
@wmclark@publishing.social2024-06-06 10:23:25
Costco Plans to Stop Selling Books Year-Round - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/books/costco-books.html
@benb@osintua.eu2024-06-07 17:25:56
Putin's big press conference, debunked: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/07/putins-big-press.html
@wmclark@publishing.social2024-06-06 10:24:31
“Costco’s shift away from books came largely because of the labor required to stock books, the executives said. Copies have to be laid out by hand, rather than just rolled out on a pallet as other products often are at Costco. The constant turnaround of books — new ones come out every Tuesday and the ones that have not sold need to be returned — also created more work.”