The next #FediBookFair will be 7th/8th November.

#Authors and #publishers are invited to post about their books, or related subjects like research, using the #FediBookFair hashtag. They can also run competitions, offer signed copies, etc.

#Readers can watch or follow the hashtag to find #books to read and authors to follow.

Full details at AuthorHelp.uk/FediBookFair/

Boosts appreciated.

#author #WritersOfMastodon #writing #WritingCommunity #bookstodon

Watching with interest:

"Federal lawsuit accuses four major publishers of extorting article processing charges."
retractionwatch.com/2026/07/31…

"A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses four major publishers of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant #APCs. The case…claims Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Informa [Taylor & Francis] forced U.S. research institutions to submit false claims to the government for reimbursement through article fees up to 10 times the cost of processing the articles."

#Litigation #Publishers #ScholComm #USLaw

As high-profile websites vanish, it’s a reminder that the web has no built-in archival layer.

But some publishers are now blocking the Wayback Machine.

help.archive.org/help/faq-publ…

#Censorship #bannedbooks #crt #dei #blackhistory @blackvoices #waybackmachine #internetarchive #mastodon #fediverse #opensource #linux #news #history #socialmedia #resistance #protest #activism @socialmedia #publishers #book #reading #education #culture #Africa #Canada #USA #Europe #Asia #LatinAmerica #politics #ai