The Spine Collector: Man arrested for using fake email addresses to steal hundreds of unpublished manuscripts

For years, “The Spine Collector” has been haunting publishers around the world, attempting to steal manuscripts by famous authors.

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How DevOps Tools Can Help Publishers Thrive

Agility has proven to be a key weapon in the publisher arsenal during the pandemic. Agile firms — particularly news publishers — that switched directions or added digital services quickly reaped the rewards of new readers and viewers, even if the aud… Continue reading How DevOps Tools Can Help Publishers Thrive

How DevOps Tools Can Help Publishers Thrive

Agility has proven to be a key weapon in the publisher arsenal during the pandemic. Agile firms — particularly news publishers — that switched directions or added digital services quickly reaped the rewards of new readers and viewers, even if the audience boost didn’t result in a similar increase in revenues for ad-based services in the short term. Continue reading How DevOps Tools Can Help Publishers Thrive

Going Beyond Advertising: Revenue Diversification in Publishing

The pandemic has had a profound short-term effect on publishers around the world — a jump in readership somewhat dampened by disappearing advertising revenue. In many media firms, the digital channel has become most important, accelerating the move to digital while also highlighting the fragility of the display advertising market. Continue reading Going Beyond Advertising: Revenue Diversification in Publishing

The Publishing Industry — Where to Now?

Many of us have spent far more time at home looking at screens to keep up to date with the world than would have seemed possible at the start of the year. In the UK, as with many other countries, the lockdown rules and pandemic response were changing on a near-daily basis, and the 5 PM government briefing became a regular fixture of the evening news. Unsurprisingly, those media firms offering up this vital information — and, of course, escapism from the grimness — have seen huge increases in traffic … but what now? Continue reading The Publishing Industry — Where to Now?

Amazon launches Amazon Care, a virtual and in-person healthcare offering for employees

Amazon has gone live with Amazon Care, a new pilot healthcare service offering that is initially available to its employees in and around the Seattle area. The Amazon Care offering includes both virtual and in-person care, with telemedicine via app, chat and remote video, as well as follow-up visits and prescription drug delivery in person […] Continue reading Amazon launches Amazon Care, a virtual and in-person healthcare offering for employees

A Cheat Sheet For Publishing Python Packages

[Brendan Herger] was warned that the process of publishing a Python package would be challenging. He relishes a challenge, however, and so he went at it with gusto. The exhausting process led him to share a cheat sheet for publishing Python packages with the goal of making the next time smoother, while also letting other people benefit from his experience and get a running start.

[Brendan] describes publishing a Python package as “tying together many different solutions with brittle interchanges.” His cheat sheet takes the form of an ordered workflow for getting everything in place, with some important decisions and …read more

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A Cheat Sheet For Publishing Python Packages

[Brendan Herger] was warned that the process of publishing a Python package would be challenging. He relishes a challenge, however, and so he went at it with gusto. The exhausting process led him to share a cheat sheet for publishing Python packages with the goal of making the next time smoother, while also letting other people benefit from his experience and get a running start.

[Brendan] describes publishing a Python package as “tying together many different solutions with brittle interchanges.” His cheat sheet takes the form of an ordered workflow for getting everything in place, with some important decisions and …read more

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