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Amazon withholds its ebooks from libraries because it prefers you pay it instead

The Verge

Amazon’s power in the bookselling and publishing worlds has created a contentious relationship between the company and authors, traditional publishers, and various other links in the publishing chain, most notably when Amazon engaged in a high-profile and often bitter licensing negotiation with major book publisher Hachette.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Benefit corporations, created in Maryland in 2010, differ from L3Cs in that they are required to operate under specific standards set forth by B Lab, itself a nonprofit organization (Powell et al., However, the impact of the “Great Recession” in 2009 and 2010 left its founders with dwindling funds. Banks were not lending.

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This didn’t start with DOGE

Recode by Vox

million career government employees who handle everything from managing national parks and taxes to overseeing public health and homelessness aid. Over the last two decades, the number of people earning a teaching license annually dropped by over 100,000, and the proportion of college graduates who go into teaching is at a 50-year low.