This is nonsensical. Libraries buy huge numbers of books you wouldn't otherwise sell. They're a massive discoverability vector for authors. The reasons behind the declining author earnings are not hard to guess. People read less, have less $ to spend, +media is being consolidated by megacorporations
Reporter: Are you concerned, Mr. President, about the latest inflation number which came out this morning?
Trump: No, I love it. I love the inflation.
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Humans have only eradicated 3, maybe 4 diseases. Smallpox was the first
Rinderpest was second.
We got a whole strain of flu, pretty much by accident, during lockdown/masking.
We're still waiting for the final final death call on guinea worm disease, thank you Jimmy Carter et al.
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For the first time in 50 years, the Minnesota State Fair has a new cookbook filled with blue ribbon winning recipes.
You all-- I never thought I'd see the day, but library peeps, strap in for a fight. The Author's Guild is going after us as the reason why authors are making less money. I don't think they understand who they are dealing with: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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For the first time in 50 years, the Minnesota State Fair has a new cookbook filled with blue ribbon winning recipes.
A survey commissioned by the Guild found that only 25% of print books and e-books read in the past month were bought new or through a paid subscription, with readers increasingly turning to low- or no...
Northwestern professor escorted out of medical conference for passing out editorial criticizing Trump
Oh wow
Yeah, preprints aren't peer reviewed research
Sigh
Screwworm eradication was a parasitology moonshot. It was huge, ambitious, expensive, and required extraordinary international cooperation. It is one of the greatest technological marvels nobody’s heard of outside livestock circles and a select group of weirdos, of which I’m one.
