You could probably find industry stats, but they wouldn't tell the whole story. Libraries bought everything in our salad days! Rarely, my small press makes a profit on a title that breaks. We publish a lot of cookbooks to help subsidize books that are culturally valuable but can never break even.

I've worked in publishing for 20+ years and most of the 300+ academic books I've worked on have been published at a loss. Most are someone's life's work, and it's a damn shame. The market just isn't there.

Sorry you aren't a legitimate publication anymore but just stop trying to piss us all off

Another small happiness: forest schools exist! My kid is really lucky to belong to one in rural Kentucky--generally regarded as an accursed land, we are home to a forest school that is best described as magical ✨

The world of insects is uniquely weird and wonderful, if at times a bit terrifying! For instance: Smithsonian Insider – Disease carrying ticks hitchhike into U.S. on migratory birds | Smithsonian Insider share.google/q3mGrk0YroNQ...

Just the other day I learned of the existence of the bearded vulture, the only vertebrate that eats mostly bone. And it looks super metal.

There is a type of bee orchid whose flower mimics a bee which has been extinct for millennia, and of which we have no evidence; except that there is a bee orchid that mimics it. The flower remembers.

You can remember where polar bears live by the regions they live in.

Arctos is the Greek word for "bear."

Thus, "Arctic" means "they git bears there," and Antarctic, by virtue of the "anti-" prefix, means "they don't got bears there."

Yeah, if they want to spring for a fine tailored suit, I'll consider wearing one. I can barely afford new jeans

Bill Maher: classic POS