It's Always Loud Inside the Information Casino

Do you want to be on the floor pumping nickels? Or above, watching and learning?

Altmetric Makes the Impact Factor Look Good

Distortion, incompleteness, and bias remain major concerns for the service

The STM Publishing Workforce

Thinking about the part of publishing that really hits home

Was Amazon's HQ2 a Con Job?

The results suggest Bezos knew the outcome before he started

Please Provide Your Feedback

A few questions early on for subscribers, to see what you think

Here's What You're Missing

Here's what you missed this week . . . and can read soon if you subscribe

Subscriptions' Surge Continues

A potpourri of interesting news about the growth of subscriptions

How Open Becomes Closed

Algorithms, propaganda, and asymmetrical information systems seem set to ensure it

Has Militancy Become the Norm?

What seemed possible in library-publisher relations now seems far from reach

Complexity Favors the Big and Rich

The more complexity there is, the tougher it is for small publishers and startups