By Kathy Sandler • Issue #49 • View online

Innovation

Five moves to make during a digital transformation

Surveyed executives confirm that digital transformations rarely achieve success. But in those that do lie the structural elements that may help organizations overcome the odds with their digital initiatives.

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Google’s prototype AI translator translates your tone as well as your words

Hope this doesn’t backfire! Google’s latest AI translator tool is a research project called Translatotron. It’s the first system of its kind to translate speech directly from audio to audio, and it’s even able to capture the tone and cadence of the speaker’s voice.

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Google has a new “smart reading app” for kids called Rivet on Android and iOS

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Technology

Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2019: A Publisher’s Toolkit

RT @LauraB7 A publisher’s toolkit on promoting accessible publishing, from @inclusivepub #eprdctn #a11y

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Podcast episodes will now show up in Google searches. Helpful discovery mechanism or a shot in the Platform Wars?

Via @nwquah for @NiemanLab

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US Supreme Court greenlights lawsuit over App Store monopoly

Not sure this makes sense: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday voted 5 to 4 to allow an antitrust lawsuit against Apple to proceed, one accusing the company of maintaining a monopoly on iOS apps via the App Store.

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Spotify is testing its own version of Stories called ‘Storyline’

Spotify is testing its own version of Stories. The focus is on allowing artists to share their own insights, inspiration, details about their creative process or other meanings behind the music.

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Publishing

EPUBCheck 4.2.0 and EPUB 3.2 production-ready

EPUB 3.2 is now published as a final specification! It’s time to upgrade your validation to EPUBCheck 4.2.0, if you haven’t already!

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Hearst’s Michael Clinton to Retire After 21 Years

Until his last day on July 1, Clinton will work with the leadership team to select his successor.

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Laundromats are playing an unlikely role in the effort to shrink America’s literacy gap

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Down and Out in the Gig Economy

RT @ThadMcIlroy In the last 15 years more journalists have lost jobs in America than have coal miners

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Business

Amazon offers employees $10K and 3 months’ pay to start their own delivery businesses

Following news of Amazon’s plans to reduce Prime shipping down to one day, Amazon now offers employees a new incentive that encourages existing Amazon employees to start their own package delivery company: It will fund startup costs up to $10K, + pay employee’s 3 months pay.

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Causes

Writers for abortion rights

Over 250 writers, editors, and agents across multiple genres are giving feedback on two pages of writing in exchange for a receipt that you have donated to a national or local abortion fund. To redeem, send a screenshot of your receipt and two pages of writing to writersforabortionrights@gmail.com. Format the subject [GENRE] LAST NAME.

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Opportunities

Bertelsmann and Udacity: 50,000 New Scholarships in Cloud, Data and AI

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Louise Meriwether First Book Prize

RT @PocPub Are you a woman or nonbinary author of color? Got a great debut manuscript?! Submit to the @feministpress Louise Meriwether First Book Prize! Submissions due June 28

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Events

WMG Members-Only Event: Rise-Up Roulette: Speed Coaching for Happiness and Profit (Personally and Professionally!)

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RSVP — The Bronx is Reading

The Bronx Book Festival is FREE: June 8 from 8:30am – 6PM, but you must RSVP.

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Publishing Before/After Stonewall: Panel on LGBTQ+ Book Industry

FREE event with a panel including Manuela Soares (director of the MS in Publishing Program and Pace University Press), Arthur A. Levine (editor of the Harry Potter series and now head of his own publishing company), and many others at Pace University’s Schimmel Theater.

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BookExpo Happy Hour

People of Color in Publishing is proud to host our third annual BookExpo Happy Hour! This event is sponsored by Latinx in Publishing

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Secrets of Publishing Panel at Strand’s Rare Book Room

RT @PaceMSinPub Secrets of Publishing will feature Deborah Landau and Susan Shapiro. Editors, agents, and authors will be in attendance to give the inside scoop on publishing poetry, fiction, YA, nonfiction, essays & articles. Purchase of a Signed Copy or $15 Gift Card grants one admission.

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