‘Publishing is not a crime’: media groups urge US to drop Julian Assange charges

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/nov/28/media-groups-urge-us-drop-julian-assange-charges

‘ #PublishingIsNotACrime’: the #Guardian, the #NewYorkTimes, #DerSpiegel, #LeMonde and #ElPaís urge #US to #drop #JulianAssange #charges. #Twelve-years after the #publication of “ #Cablegate”, it is time for the #US #government to end its #prosecution of Julian Assange for publishing #secrets. #Publishing is not a #crime.

#media #dropthecharges #wikileaks #journalism #freepress #letter #newspapers #magazines #censorship #leak #journalismisnotacrime #freeassange #freespeech #weareallassange

#finance

#publishing

(https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/penguin-random-house-scraps-22-bln-deal-merge-with-simon-schuster-2022-11-21/)

Penguin Random House scraps $2.2 bln deal to merge with Simon & Schuster

Penguin Random House, the world's largest publisher, and rival Simon & Schuster have scrapped a $2.2 billion deal to merge, Penguin owner Bertelsmann said in a statement.

Judge blocks Penguin Random House’s purchase of Simon & Schuster

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/media/penguin-random-house-simon-and-schuster-merger-blocked/index.html

#books #publishing

Judge blocks Penguin Random House's purchase of Simon & Schuster | CNN Business

It is Journalism

" #Asking for, #receiving and #publishing #leaks is not #espionage. It is #journalism."

The dangerous precedent being set in #JulianAssange's case is that journalists could be tried as #spies for revealing government wrongdoing and state crimes.
#freeassange #freespeech #freepress #wikileaks #weareallassange #dropthecharges

Remember that lawsuit to destroy the Internet Archive?

If public libraries didn't already exist, publishers would never allow them.

It's pretty much the same for free public education. If it didn't already exist, it would never be allowed.

https://torrentfreak.com/publishers-internet-archive-both-seek-piracy-lawsuit-win-without-full-trial-220614/

#internet #archive #internet-archive #copyright #monopoly #monopolies #books #publishing #publishers #freedom #liberty #free-culture #library #libraries #book-lending

Dreaming of utopia: photographing the 60s – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian

Public Photography. The Sixties, an exhibition in Madrid as part of the annual PhotoEspañna festival, explores the power of the printed image as it appeared in books, magazines, newspapers, posters, and more. The Sixties surveys the publications that carried images of everything from Beatlemania to the sexual revolution, the civil rights struggle and the first man on the moon
Public Photography. The Sixties is at CentroCentro, Madrid, until 2 October

#photography #art #print #publishing

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/jun/08/photographing-the-60s-photoespana-festival-in-pictures

Brandon Sanderson...Kickstarter

https://newsroom.siliconslopes.com/news/utah-fantasy-and-scifi-author-brandon-sanderson-has-set-kickstarter-and-the-publishing-world-afire/

#books #publishing #litetature

Utah Fantasy and SciFi Author, Brandon Sanderson, Has Set Kickstarter and the Publishing World Afire

In under 48 hours, the Pleasant Grove author's new Kickstarter campaign has become the 2nd most funded project EVER at over $18.5 million in pledges made to back four new secret books.

#EdwardSnowden #FreeAssangeNOW

#Assange has been charged for #revealing #state #crimes - #unprecedented #charges for #publishing in the #public #interest.

" #JulianAssange is one of the #longest-serving #political #prisoners in the #western #world. Every level of the #case #against him has been shot through with #corruption and the #abuse of #process.
#dropthecharges #wikileaks #freespeech #weareallassange #quote

Drop the Charges

"The #prosecution of #JulianAssange redefines #publishing as #espionage. This is the most #dangerous #legal #precedent that could possibly be set." ~ #FormerAustralianSenator #ScottLudlam

#assange #wikileaks #freespeech #freepress #FreeAssangeNow #DropTheCharges #AustraliansBringAssangeHome

Julian Assange, political prisoner of the year

'What credibility does the #UK have after #greenlighting #US #extradition of #Assange where he faces #175-years in #prison for #publishing about #US #war-crimes, knowing the #CIA plotting to #kill him, with the #UN #denouncing his #torture and #indefinite #arbitrary #imprisonment?' #StellaMoris #quote

#FreeAssangeNow #julianassange #weareallassange #wikileaks #journalism #freepress #dropthecharges #freespeech #political #prisoner #truthteller #noextradition #time #freedom #political-prisoner-of-the-year #firstamendment

The Atlantic wants to hire newsletter writers — and it wants their subscribers, too

I love The Atlantic, but am not happy with there paywalls etc. Sounds like they are trying to more even more online...

https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/10/9/22715506/atlantic-newsletter-subscribers-substack

#publishing

The Atlantic wants to hire newsletter writers — and it wants their subscribers, too

Heads up, Substack. But also Twitter. And Facebook. And the New York Times ...

What do you do if you want to piss with the big dogs?

You must have massive intent. You must have high ambition.

I once wrote a story set in a baseball park, which I think is one of my best. Gordon read it and said, “I like this, too, but you should set this one in the kitchen!”

Why was it supposed to be set in a kitchen?

I was agitated. His advice made no sense and I didn’t take it. I assumed he was playing with me. But there was a book on my shelf—still there now!—“The Origins of European Thought,” the subtitle of which is “About the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time, and Fate.” And I thought, I’ll show you! I’ll show everybody! I titled my first book “This Is About the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time, and Fate.”

That’s how you piss with the big dogs.

Yes.

...

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/diane-williams-will-never-be-dutiful

#literature #authors #writing #books #publishing

Diane Williams Will Never Be Dutiful

Williams can write startling things about sex, relationships, and family. But her real project is to test the limits of fiction itself.

Free Julian Assange ... Drop the Charges .. for Truth-Telling

https://twitter.com/HorvatSrecko/status/1440744591536230406

#JulianAssange has now been #imprisoned on remand for 2 full years, as the #US continues to seek the
#wikileaks #founder's #extradition for #publishing #information of #vital #public #importance. It is long past time to #dropthecharges, end the extradition #attempt, and #FreeAssangeNOW. #sreckohorvat #weareallassange #noextradition #truthteller #freepress #freespeech #firstamendment

Julian Assange on the Afghanistan war logs: ‘They show the true nature of this war’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E5nrTRHSck
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jul/25/afghanistan-war-logs-military-leaks

Having #exposed the #secrets of the #Afghan #war, #JulianAssange is being #pursued for a #175year #prison #sentence for #publishing #evidence of #war #crimes and #abuses in #Afghanistan and beyond #FreePress.

#assange #AfghanWarLogs #wikileaks #us #military #foreign #policy #cia #news #true #nature #humanrights #freespeech #freejulianassange #dropthecharges #noextradition #weareallassange

The Last Dangerous Visions

https://twitter.com/andrewliptak/status/1426161931707109377

#writing #publishing #scifi #HarlanEllison #DangerousVisions

Folks at #Readium and #EDRLabs are trying to convince publishers that online #ebooks are safe, by trying to achieve some sort of #DRM -like “protection”. Needless to say, they’re bound to fail. https://github.com/readium/web/blob/master/docs/protection/introduction.md #EPUB #publishing

web/introduction.md at master · readium/web

Implements the Readium Architecture for Web Apps. Contribute to readium/web development by creating an account on GitHub.

Hey everyone, I’m #newhere. I’m interested in #art-and-creativity, #books, #digital-art, #photogaphy, #publishing, and #writing.
Just found you and am moving over from Pluspora.

Irony, thy name is Scientific Publishing.

https://twitter.com/Ankurdebbarman/status/1354174893806374913

Knowledge wants to be free. But there is no commodity on earth for which there is not SOMEONE who wants to fence it in, even if it isn't theirs, and charge admission.

#science #publishing #paywalls

How vinyl is pressed

Wanna make (or break) some records?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Eq5EDXNe-HQ

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Dbqzx0tUnPM

1. Artist records performance --- to digital or analogue audio tape.
2. Recording is mixed and engineered, cut to laquer-coated aluminium disk.
3. Lacquer is silver and nickle electroplated to form master.
4. Stampers are pressed from master, 2,000 psi at 300°F.
5. Warm vinyl "biscuit" is sandwiched between lables and pressed in mold from stamper.

Freshly-pressed records are cooled, trimmed, stacked, checked, assembled into sleeves & jackets, wrapped, and shipped.

Every vinyl recording is already at least a fifth-generation copy.

#manufacturing #recordMaking #vinyl #recording #publishing

https://www.tor.com/2020/06/17/the-role-publishing-plays-in-the-commodification-of-black-pain/

#writing #publishing #blm #BlackLivesMatter #diversity

The Role Publishing Plays in the Commodification of Black Pain

For more than two weeks now, the United States, and much of the world, has seen daily protests and demonstrations following yet another slew of murders of unarmed Black people. George Floyd, Breonn…