classic things that good guys who aren't war criminals say!

This was a really good article countering that silly article about books not selling slate.com/culture/2024/0…

Lincoln Michel Michel lays out a detailed analysis about books sales & how publishing/sales work w.r.t. author payments over at Slate.

Give it a read folks

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassss via Lincoln Michel

slate.com/culture/2024/0…

#BookTwitter #booktwt #indiepublishing #amreading

Wonder if your company twitter played a role in driving everything to only-read-the-headline shallow engagement clickbait content 🤔

'My explainer is answering a lot of questions answered in the headline about killing a puppy'

Columbia literally sells that very standard bike lock to students...

This is what we have instead of libraries

Really goofy how the right wing and center has latched onto 'why do you wear a mask!?' as some gotcha at protestors. I don't think anyone is actually surprised at this in an age of mass surveillance, police crackdowns, social media pile-ons, etc.

Oh

Paul Auster as a student participating in the 1968 occupation of Columbia University, as seen in Peter Whitehead's The Fall (1969).

safe travels

I think it's okay to protest this, actually.

Taken by Jelani Cobb, dean of Columbia Journalism School, inside campus

Damn. RIP to a legend. nytimes.com/2024/04/30/boo…

You do realize the problem was more that they were trying to overthrow an election than that they left some trash around right?

You quite famously relied on sources to push for the invasion of Iraq that refused to identify themselves publicly. You went to jail for it.

Columbia student journalists should get the Pulitzer.

This senior faculty member at Columbia University learned about NYPD entering campus from *student-run radio.* I still haven't been officially informed. Unless you count the text alert telling me to 'shelter in place' and threatening 'disciplinary action' for 'non-compliance.'

This is the truth. Publishing bets on attracting the 'buys 1 buzzy book a year' crowd. That's where the money is.