At last week's meeting, we all had a very lively discussion about publishing and editing issues going on in the world outside of Susquehanna University. We talked a lot about how Amazon is opening up "brick-and-mortar" bookstores (is it a grab for a bigger monopoly? it out of the goodness of their hearts? do they have hearts? what does this mean for the publishing companies and bookstores? will they serve coffee?) as well as demographics in publishing companies vs. the demographics of the authors that are published. But there were lots of interesting things that members of the exec board found that were not discussed, and so if you would like to follow up on them, here are some links that will lead you to interesting thought spaces:

• http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2014/biggest-problems-facing-publishing-disappearing-shelf-space-discovery-pace-of-change/
• http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/69313-amazon-may-open-400-bookstores.html
• http://flavorwire.com/558171/book-publishing-is-as-almost-white-as-the-oscars
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/can-we-stop-pretending-the-publishing-industry-is-fair-now_us_55c25732e4b0d9b28f05354a
• http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/trade-shows-events/article/61243-challenges-and-rewards-in-small-press-publishing-an-awp-panel.html
• https://creativecommons.org/
• http://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-plans-hundreds-of-brick-and-mortar-bookstores-mall-ceo-says-1454449475
• http://www.fastcompany.com/3052464/fast-feed/amazon-new-york-times-duke-it-out-over-scathing-expose
• http://www.politics-prose.com/
• http://www.vidaweb.org/paris-review-2014-vida-count/
• http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/distribution-by-raceethnicity/