Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai is calling for AI regulation. Why? With the right lobbying, AI regulation would benefit Alphabet and Google. via @VentureBeat#Google#AI
Watch for the TikTok vs. Byte wars -> In 2017 Twitter pulled the plug on Vine, and left a community of extremely-short-form-video creators without a platform.
YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, before consumers saw them. However, about 9.2m still reached consumers during same period, equating to roughly 1 piece of harmful content viewed per second!
RT @amarie Is your Undo command not working right in #InDesign 2020? That is, it jumps back to the last-saved version instead of just undoing the most recent thing? (Yikes!) If so, @InDesign has a fix coming but you can join prerelease and download it now
HT @ChristaAngelios A great #publishing industry-specific breakdown of Cali’s new employee classification law, which has counterparts being drawn up in the Jersey and NY legislatures. #AB5
Barnes & Noble Education Inc., McGraw-Hill Global Education Holdings LLC, and other leading textbook publishers and retailers were hit with an antitrust lawsuit in Delaware federal court claiming they’re trying to drive independent college bookstores out of the market for online course materials.
Of nine leisure activities, visiting a library is the one Americans did most frequently in the past year, followed by attending movies and live sporting events.
HT @BISG From bestsellers to textbooks, stolen content is easily found on a 14-year-old hosting service operated by Microsoft’s social network. Mid-level writers are hurt the most. #piracy#ebooks
Scroll lets you pay $5 / month to get ad-free access to hundreds of websites. It’s partnered with publishers to make it work, including Vox Media, G/O Media, BuzzFeed News, The Atlantic, and more. via @Verge#web#advertising
ICYMI HT @mediastarnews Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper group could be set for a substantial financial windfall after successfully arguing that the Times of London’s digital edition is effectively a print newspaper because its website is rarely updated #media
RT @mediavoicespod Condé Nast has seen a 41% increase in its order volume over the past two years and a 93% boost to revenue because of its participation in Google’s programmatic guaranteed partnership
Condé Nast is not giving up on its e-commerce dreams, especially at a time of plunging advertising revenues across the entire media industry via @wwd#ecommerce
HT @josephcaserto A @nytimes article about TypeThursdays. I thought this was funny: “An earlier version of this article misidentified the very font used on http://nytimes.com. It is Imperial, not Georgia, which was used until 2017.” #typography#fonts
ICYMI Netflix and Sephora announced they have inked deals with Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle brand. Netflix will be home to “Goop Lab,” a six-part series co-hosted by Paltrow; beauty retailer Sephora will offer Goop products.
Can’t wait for this Women’s Media Group event at Carolines on Broadway 5/5!
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