Angela Miller
@Alternatecelt@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

From Private Eye.

#funnynotfunny #haha #publishing #facepalm #satire

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Non-celebrity publishes children’s book by Our Publishing Correspondent this woman has writing children’s Bill Cashgrab books is anyone’s guess.” I The publishing world was THE CHILDREN’S publishing relieved when it became clear there world was rocked this week as a was no marketing budget for this book was released by a new author ~~ book, as that was going on Gwyneth who wasn’t a celebrity. Paltrow’s first picture book, | “We've checked and double- meaning that the non-celebrity checked and she does indeed author's book sold less than 3,000 appear to be a former nanny copies despite excellent reviews. living in West Somerset whose “This means she’ll now have talent was spotted by an editor to put her talent towards paying at Bloomsbury,” said everyone the bills, ghost-writing children’s working in publishing. books by celebrity authors.” “She’s not a footballer like “Well, that’s a relief,” agreed Marcus Rashford, a presenter everyone in children’s publishing like Dermot O'Leary, a pop star eagerly looking forward to the day like Madonna, a comedian like when Al will be able to generate David Baddiel or an actress like children’s books for the celebrities Keira Knightley, so what business to put their name on at no cost.
Non-celebrity publishes children’s book by Our Publishing Correspondent this woman has writing children’s Bill Cashgrab books is anyone’s guess.” I The publishing world was THE CHILDREN’S publishing relieved when it became clear there world was rocked this week as a was no marketing budget for this book was released by a new author ~~ book, as that was going on Gwyneth who wasn’t a celebrity. Paltrow’s first picture book, | “We've checked and double- meaning that the non-celebrity checked and she does indeed author's book sold less than 3,000 appear to be a former nanny copies despite excellent reviews. living in West Somerset whose “This means she’ll now have talent was spotted by an editor to put her talent towards paying at Bloomsbury,” said everyone the bills, ghost-writing children’s working in publishing. books by celebrity authors.” “She’s not a footballer like “Well, that’s a relief,” agreed Marcus Rashford, a presenter everyone in children’s publishing like Dermot O'Leary, a pop star eagerly looking forward to the day like Madonna, a comedian like when Al will be able to generate David Baddiel or an actress like children’s books for the celebrities Keira Knightley, so what business to put their name on at no cost.
Björn Brembs
@brembs@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

And yet another one in the ever increasing list of analyses showing that top journals are bad for science:

"Thus, our analysis show major claims published in low-impact journals are significantly more likely to be reproducible than major claims published in trophy journals. "

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.07.663460v2

#publishing #openscience #reproducibility
Ivan Herman
@ivan_herman@w3c.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

If you make EPUB documents, or build tools for EPUBs, do you think EPUBs should continue requiring the XML syntax for HTML? Tell W3C what you think by filling the simple survey by the W3C Publishing Maintenance Working Group. 4 questions, responses anonymized:

https://www.w3.org/wbs/1/epubhtml/

#publishing #ereader #ebook #kindle #kobo #pocketbook #boox #nook
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Having said that, let's remember to always ask "who does that server really serve?"
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html

... and that the importance of liberating source code for web services is the ease of standing up an equivalent service, so we have somewhere to exit to. Which is why the Franklin Street Statement pointed proposes libre licensing for "network services";

https://freedomdefined.org/Franklin_Street_Statement_on_Freedom_and_Network_Services
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Just out of curiosity @ben, did anyone ever take up that bounty and implement AP in Known?

werd.io/2021/building-activity

Would be cool to see Known publications start turning up in Ghost, along with Ghost and WP ones : )

Also, there was some talk of an AP plugin for Elgg. Did that ever eventuate?
Björn Brembs
@brembs@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

If your buddy becomes an editor at a Nature journal, your chances of publishing a Nature paper more than double:

"For each additional original article published in the two years before the editor’s appointment, these authors had 161% more chances to publish another original article in this journal after the editor’s appointment"

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0322012

#academicchatter #publishing #openscience
A. Rivera
@bloodravenlib@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 6 months ago

And speaking of #AI #fuckery. . . For when that lazy professor just does not want to bother explaining his obscure research to the unwashed masses.

> The Publisher of the Journal "Nature" Is Emailing Authors of Scientific Papers, Offering to Sell Them AI Summaries of Their Own Work https://futurism.com/springer-nature-ai-media-kit

#academia#HigherEd #publishing #tech