Mediagazer: How private industry dominates and profits massively from academic publishing, and how librarians, academics, and pirates are trying to regain control (Brian Resnick/Vox)

8:40 AM ET, June 11, 2019

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Publishers, lobbying for laws around the world that will help them extract payments from platforms like Google for linking to news, are ruining the internet — Around the world, news industry trade associations are corruptly cashing in their political capital — …

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Marc Tracy / New York Times:
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Julia Alexander / The Verge:

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Brian Resnick / Vox:

How private industry dominates and profits massively from academic publishing, and how librarians, academics, and pirates are trying to regain control — How librarians, pirates, and funders are liberating the world's academic research from paywalls. — The 27,500 scientists who work …

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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

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Casey Sullivan / Business Insider:

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Ben Sisario / New York Times:

Artists are gaming Billboard charts by including free downloads of albums with concert tickets and merch; Billboard plans to tighten bundling rules this year — About half the 39 titles that topped the charts last year were sold as part of ticket or merchandise “bundles.”

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Rick Gladstone / New York Times:

Iran revoked press credential of Tehran-based NYT correspondent Thomas Erdbrink in Feb; photographer Newsha Tavakolian, his wife, was also stopped from working — The authorities in Iran have barred the Tehran-based correspondent for The New York Times from working for the past four months, the newspaper said Monday.

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